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Yarlung Records star pianist David Fung joins American 'cellist Elinor Frey in her debut recording featuring some of our favorite composers from Asia, America and Europe. For more information about Elinor Frey and David Fung, see yarlungrecords.com. Elinor plays a 1962 Mario Gadda Italian cello from Mantua. She uses a baroque bow (made by Louis Bégin in Montreal) for Bach's 'cello suite and for Amour et Biauté Parfaite. Elinor commissioned her modern bow, which she uses for all other tracks on this album, from Charles Espey of Port Townsend Washington. David Fung plays New York Steinway Concert & Artists piano number 430, a hybrid of sorts. It was made in New York, and has that characteristic New York linearity of tone, control, and size. But it has the Hamburg Steinway lacquer finish, which may contribute to that extra sparkle in the tone, especially in the treble. Additionally, this piano has a lighter action than traditional New York Steinways, which makes it more like the German pianos. It was Colburn School's John Perry who persuaded friends at Steinway & Sons in New York to allow Colburn School to buy this particular instrument. Thank you Maestro Perry, and thank you Steinway! There are no equalization adjustments on this album. We made all EQ adjustments with microphone placement at the start. It is always our goal to record this way: we succeeded similarly with David Fung's Evening Conversations released in 2006, and also with Orion, Joanne Pearce Martin: Barefoot, and Ryan MacEvoy McCullough in Concert among other albums to be released in 2008 as well. Thanks to our friend and supporter Jon Fisher, Gearworks Pro Audio gave us the use of an Austrian AKG C-24 stereo microphone, one of the few still using the original brass surround CK12 tube in excellent condition. For this recording we used Yarlung-Records-designed interconnects with a flat silver ribbon suspended in air for the dialectric, customized vacuum tube preamplifiers, no mixer, and recorded directly to two tracks sampled at 176,400 samples per second at 24 bit depth. Engineers Steve Hoffman, Kevin Gray and I worked at AcousTech Mastering at RTI in Camarillo to convert these high resolution tracks to CD Audio. This album was made possible by Yarlung Artists, a California nonprofit corporation. Yarlung Artists raises money to support debut recordings for select concert musicians as they begin their international concert careers. Generous support from individual donors, corporations, foundations and our board of directors made this album possible. To learn more about Yarlung Artists and to support future such recordings, please visit our website at yarlungartists.org. We are a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity, and we need your help and we welcome your interest. Thank you! Or write to us at: Yarlung Artists, 10920 Wilshire Boulevard 150-9162, Los Angeles, California 90024. Dialoghi was made possible by generous support from The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Attiyeh Fund for New Music, Colburn School, ODS Optical Disc Solutions, Gearworks Pro Audio and AcousTech Mastering. Yarlung Artists wishes also to thank Lennie & Bernie Greenberg, Audre Slater, Alice & Joe Coulombe, Janet & Nick Ciriello, Steve Hoffman, Steven Stucky, David & Laurie Lefkowitz, Martin Perlich, Kathleen Darragh, Adam Gilbert, Robert Willoughby Jones, Danielle Harrell, Yarlung Records Music Advisor Rina Dokshitsky, Elliot Midwood, George Nimick, Joan Rosell, Ken & Sally Williams, Kevin & Silvia Dretzka, and Lucy Talwani for their generosity to David Fung and Elinor Frey and for their help in the creation of this album. Bob Attiyeh, producer

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