JACQUES BEERS (1902-1947): Suite åfor Flute and Piano, Flute Sonata, 8 pièces for Piano Four Hands, Fuga sopra Addis Abeba for Piano, Mouvement for Violin and Piano, Pièce for Piano, Piano Sonata, Sur le Tombeau de Debussy for Piano, Songs: Chants de Métier, Vlan! 6 chants puérils, 3 chansons pour danser, 3 chansons nègres, Negro Songs, Oud-Nederlandsche liederen.

Description: A student of Nadia Boulanger and a composer praised by Ravel, this Dutchman followed the French neo-classical style of the day and, in his song cycles for children and for a department store, perhaps might be grouped with the more frivolous pages penned by Les Six. The works here are mostly from before the war, which broke him physically and led to his early death, but even the three written during and after it are in the same entertaining and effervescent style. 44 pages of documentation - if you can read Dutch; if not, you've got two pages in English. 2 CDs. French/Dutch texts. Marcel Beekman (tenor), Irene Maessen (soprano), Marja Bon, Frans van Ruth, Marcel Worms (piano), Eleonore Pameijer (flute), Ursula Schoch (violin).