ARTHUR LOURIÉ (1891-1966): Solo Flute - Sunrise, 3 Dithyrambes and The Flute of Pan for Solo Flute, Pastorale de la Volga for Oboe Bassoon, 2 Violas and Celllo, Regina Coeli for Contralto, Oboe and Trumpet,, La flûte travers le violon for Flute and Violin for Flute and Violin,  2 Études sur un sonnet de Mallarmé: No. 1. Phrases flor Flute and Piano, The Mime for Solo Clarinet, Funeral Games in Honor of Chronos for 3 Flutes, Piano and Cymbals.

Description: The turbulent life of Arthur Lourié – student of Glazunov, friend of Blok, lover of Akhmatova, commissar of the Soviet regime, exile in Germany, France and the USA, ghost-writer for Koussevitzky – is reflected in the wide range of references in his music, from echoes of the ceremonies of ancient Greece to Neo-Baroque and Neo-Classical procedures perhaps inspired by his collaboration with Stravinsky in Paris. Some of the works in this first of two albums surveying his chamber and instrumental music have an almost ritual formality; in others a mischievous grin is not far from the surface. Musicians of the Arthur Lourié Festival, Basel.