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Toccata Classics TOCC 0098 This is a disc of particular personal interest to me. It arose from the excellent cellist's Fellowship at Trinity College of Music in Greenwich, a few minutes from my home. She was responsible whilst there for a series of Polish contemporary cello music concerts, both her pianists colleagues there too. Although closely associated with TCM since it moved to Greenwich, I had remained quite unaware of those concerts; Trinity College's press publicity has lagged well behind those of the other London colleges. Krzystof Meyer is a fine, prolific composer with a language of his own and meticulous care in Although a pianist first, he composed for cello ensembles in Krakow and is proud to have worked with many exceptional cellists. Evva Mizerska is one such, and she can be Evva Mizerska recorded in Polish Radio Studio (2008) so perhaps these works have become a little familiar in the musicians' home country? The second sonata is planned as more equal between the players, and ensemble is equally good with Katarzyna Glensk who has won many a prize but whose website doesn't yet have an English version. This is a terrific disc, one to be pressed into the hands of every aspiring cello recitalist. Peter Grahame Woolf See also Bob Briggs on Music Web "one of the most elemental and exciting composers currently at work today" "
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conveying it to paper and performance. 
proud to have had the opportunity to champion three such fine and original works and with the composer's involvement. Meyer espouses melody - "not post-Romantic cantilena but absolutely contemporary".