Cook/Guzman - Paul Reale: Chopin's Ghosts

Multi-award-winning composer Paul Reale has a distinctly American voice, enriched and given touches of familiarity through references to folk idiom and musical ancestors such as Bart�k and Kod�ly. This program brings together Reale�s works for cello and piano. His earliest, S�ance, is a haunting combination of modernist sounds and Baroque melodies. The operatic Cello Sonata No. 1 daringly uses What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor as the backbone of its finale, and the recent Chopin�s Ghosts explores the Romantic composer�s long, weaving lines and evokes his poetic spirit.