MANUEL OLTRA (b.1922): Cello Sonata, Dansa trista and Fantasia i Fuga for Cello and Piano, Variacions Característiques sobre un tema de P. Palou for Piano, Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano: Pastorel-la, Res no és mesquì, Jesús de Nazaret, Gráfico de la Petenera, Niño, Danza, Borrissol d'Àngel.

Description: Like his Catalan compatriots above (Toldrà and Blancafort especially), Oltra continues to work in the late Romantic, nationalistic tradition with plenty of attractive tunes of popular and folk style and engaging traces of the Impressionist tradition as well. Catalan/Spanish-English texts. Manuel Martínez del Fresno (cello), Montserrat Torruella (soprano), Sira Hernández (piano).