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Composer, pianist, and author William Bolcom has these comments to make regarding his new Dance Portraits: 'These three dance-pieces are portraits of friends who are each wonderful pianists but are perhaps better known for something else in music. Dennis Russell Davies is a renowned conductor; Curtis Curtis-Smith is an extremely talented composer; Abba Bogin is a highly successful conductor and commercial musician. Such vernacular styles as soft-shoe and Argentine and Brazilian tango are found in these works. The Dead Moth Tango got its title from a moth I killed inadvertently; Knock-Stück features, as well as knocking sounds, a particular type of syncopation found often in Curtis-Smith's compositions; Abbacadabra celebrates the volubility all of Abba Bogin's friends will recognize.

Flor Peeters (1903 - 1986) to belgijski kompozytor, organista i pedagog. Większość swoich kompozycji stworzył na organy lub też chór z towarzyszeniem tego instrumentu. Publikacja "10 Bagatelles" Peetersa zawiera cykl dziesięciu miniatur na fortepian solo. Wśród kompozycji znajdują się przede wszystkim stylizowane tańce: m. in. menuet, tarantella, walc, air oraz tango. W zbiorze odnaleźć można również jeden utwór typowo polifoniczny ("Invention") oraz miniaturę o pieśniowej melodyce ("Lied").