This CD presents five compositions for flute and piano by Eastern European composers originating from the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and Russia. All were born at the end of the nineteenth century and wrote their works in the first half of the twentieth century. They witnessed great changes both in society as well as on a musical level. During their lives, concert music changed from classical-romantic to modern and experimental.

Apart from their collective origin in Eastern Europe – an area bordered by the Danube and the Volga – where the Austrian-Hungarian dual monarchy reigned supreme, another important uniting factor binding these composers was the city of Paris. In the first half of the twentieth century, Paris was like a magnet for artists. The violin virtuoso, composer and conductor Georges Enescu spent most of his life there. Alexander Tansman too, left for Paris at an early age and preferred France to his native Poland. Sergei Prokofiev visited Paris in a professional capacity, remaining there fo