20Th-Century Middle European Flute Music

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These central-European composers share a history of persecution and emigration but survived the worst excesses of the time. Their works reflect very different aesthetic positions. Schoenberg's uncompromising Sonata is an arrangement of his Wind Quintet, Op. 26 of 1923-24 made a few years later by the Austrian composer Felix Greissle. The Suite by Ernst Krenek is delightfully neo-Classical, whilst the Czech Emil Burian crafted an eloquent, light-hearted work, heard here in its first recording.