Triendl/Wen Sinn Yang - Le violoncelle � l'�cole de Paris

After the devastation of World War I, young, hopeful, gifted composers trooped into the French capital. In 1925, the publisher Michel Dillard coined the term �cole de Paris (�Paris School�) for the foreign composers then living there, especially Hungary�s Tibor Hars�nyi (1898�1954), Poland�s Alexandre Tansman (1897�1986), Czechoslovakia�s Bohuslav Martin? (1890�1959), Russia�s Alexander Tcherepnin (1899�1977), and Romania�s Marcel Mihalovici (1898�1985), whose works he specialised in disseminating. All five composers featured in this album came to Paris from Eastern Europe and all, with the exception of Martin?, died there. They initially attempted to translate the essence of folk music from their homelands, using standard musical notation to express idiomatic subtleties that were difficult to capture. The programme includes the world premiere recordings of Hars�nyi�s Rhapsodie and Sonate Pour Violoncelle et Piano, and Mihalovici�s Sonate dans le caract�re d�une sc�ne lyrique.