On their third CD, the outstanding concertante duo Reinhold Friedrich and Eriko Takezawa bring to life music that has hitherto lain dormant or has not yet appeared in such a brilliant light. In their new CD production, the two exceptional artists present three new discoveries by Alexander Albrecht, Boris Asafyev and Harold Shapero, which are of the utmost importance for the trumpet-piano repertoire. Also noteworthy are the three important repertoire works, the sonatas by Thorwald Hansen, Jean Hubeau and George Antheil, which shine here in completely new splendour. The works are all set at the end of the Romantic period through to the transition to the modern era.

Moreover, this is already a historically important recording, as it is the last CD production in the "old" Hans Rosbaud Studio in Baden-Baden before the building was demolished. This acoustically valuable room was home to all the great and greatest composers of our time. From Olivier Messiaen to Jörg Widmann, from Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Karlheinz Stockhausen to Peter Eötvös and Wolfgang Rihm.

This album Sonatae e Variácie has the potential to become a milestone in the repertoire for trumpet and piano.