Maier/ Zilliacus/ Huang - Piano TrioThere are only world premiere recordings on this concluding Volume 3 of the wonderful music of Amanda Maier (1853 1894), including a recently re discovered masterpiece: the piano trio in E flat! The previous two volumes of this remarkable, Swedish German violinist and composer, married to composer Julius Rntgen, have been great successes. On this third volume, violinist Cecilia Zilliacus's and Bengt Forsberg's loving playing is backed up by cellist

the Innocence Mission offers the rarer

Not ready to let go of the hand of the California desert

Dino Constantinides' love of Greek folk music permeates his works

(son of the late AllmanBrothers bassist

It's another stunning work in a canon that's established her as one of Los Angeles' most enduring

creating a much lower wind pressure than that of modern organs

as long as they have each other

John Dowland's beguiling Pavanes and Galliards

largely elegiac in character and flavored not only with late-Romantic harmonies but the unmistakable influence of Maurice Ravel

"Love Unspoken" (from The Merry Widow) and "Happy Days are Here Again

The Skyliners

no less brilliant in it's solo writing but astonishingly confident in it's handling of material indebted to Bach