An eclectic variety from Baroque oboe transcriptions to third-stream jazz to a song cycle for voice, saxophones and piano.

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Contents

#		Title	Length	Sample
1		Piece en forme de Habanera - Maurice Ravel	2:48
2		Sonata in Jazz - Werner Heider - 1	3:23
3		Sonata in Jazz - Werner Heider - 2	4:49
4		Sonata in Jazz - Werner Heider - 3	4:09
5		City Called Heaven - Negro Spiritual	3:28
6		Shtetl Voices - Yentl I - Ivan Rosenblum	2:49
7		Shtetl Voices - Yentl II	3:05
8		Shtetl Voices - Yentl III	3:24
9		Shtetl Voices - Bridal Feathers	1:49
10		Shtetl Voices - Dvayre I - Mutterings	2:04
11		Shtetl Voices - Dvayre II - Morning Ritual	2:58
12		Reflections on Raga Todi - Charlie Buel	5:55
13		Sonata in F Minor - William Babell - Adagio	2:41
14		Sonata in F Minor - William Babell - Allegretto	2:11
15		Sonata in F Minor - William Babell - Largo	2:49
16		Sonata in F Minor - William Babell - Presto	1:51
17		Lullaby - Carl Anton Wirth	3:24

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Description

This Dynamic Duo has been delighting San Francisco Bay Area audiences with their varied and inventive repertoire for years. Now they can be heard performing previously unrecorded pieces on this new release. The program includes works from Baroque oboe transcriptions to third-stream jazz to a song cycle for voice, saxophones and piano in which the Duo collaborates with which highly acclaimed mezzo-soprano Stephanie Friedman, a featured singer in John Adams' operas Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer.

Recorded in the excellent acoustics of the College of Notre Dame's chapel in Belmont, California and engineered by Paul Stubblebein of the Rocket Lab, this unusual and unique recording has many special moments.

Reviews:

Jason DuMars of The International Saxophone Page says, "This is some of the finest soprano playing that I have heard in quite a while. . .Don't let this CD escape your collection!"

"...fresh and expressive, with genuine impulses of feeling." San Francisco Chronicle

"Between Rosenblum's creative spirit and Wolford's amazing flexibility with his instrument, the entire world of music is open to them." The Express