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Michael J. West on “Enesco Re-Imagined” in JAZZ TIMES

“Enesco Re-Imagined is visionary third-stream music. That’s undercounting the streams, actually; the album is a compound of musical compounds. Romanian composer Georges Enesco, was known for molding doina— a Romanian folk form — into classical structures and settings . . . . . . Enesco belongs in the pantheon of 20th-century composers, and this recording places Ban and Hébert among the great 21st-century interpreters”