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Bartók: Out of Doors, five piano pieces
Bartók: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano
Bartók: Sonata for Solo Violin

Leonid Hambro, piano; Stanley Drucker, clarinet; Robert Mann, violin

The cycle Out of Doors includes the Music of the Night, sounds of nature such as the singing of frogs; The Chase, obviously on horseback. The Contrasts was written after the composer heard jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman on a phonograph record. The Solo Violin Sonata is recorded here using the quarter tones in the last movement, as it was originally conceived.