les petits nerveux <br> French Music for Winds <br> Hexagon <BR> BRIDGE 9079American Record Guide: Best of Year Audiophile Audition: Best of Year Pulse: Five Star, Highest Rating ClassicsToday. com: 10 10 "Highest Rating" Hexagon's go for broke performance of the title track of this disc, Jean Francaix's Les petits nerveux, sets the tone for a terrific hour of music by some of France's finest composers. Hexagon was a winner of "The Young Concert Artists' International Competition" and here the group plays with wit, panache

Saint-Saens: Caprice

This disc includes performances of many of the works that made Milstein famous

“The performances are among the greatest displays of virtuosity I have ever heard

with the Vermont festival

26 in E-flat Major

beyond his personal and esthetic influences and connections

As Things Were

went ahead with the publication of the earlier works grouped under that title

Highlights of this CD include Leonard Bernstein's impassioned performance of Shulman's arrangement of the Israeli National Anthem

Clarinet and Strings

the thirty-six minute cycle features spectacularly colorful (more than 75 percussion instruments) and moving renditions of such classic folk tunes as "Black

2 Praeludium XIV in F# minor (1:29)