Bills/Rubtsov/Robson/Korzhev - Gerard Schurmann: Chamber and Instrumental Music and Songs, Volume Four

This fourth Toccata Classics album of the chamber music of Gerard Schurmann � born in the former Dutch East Indies in 1924, naturalised Briton and now a resident of Los Angeles � adds two major song-cycles (one of them written for Britten and Pears) and works for flute and piano to the mix, in a distinctly personal language derived from influences ranging from Javanese gamelan to Bart�k and Britten. Schurmann�s music somehow manages to blend elegant intensity and touching lyricism, with a result balanced between strength and sensitivity.