Gypsy Wheel (Crystal Records CD712) Thomas Robertello, flute, Winston Choi, piano Amazon.com also includes works by Francois Borne, David Dzubay, Charles Griffes, and Paul Taffanel.

Paul Dunkel Live in Recital (MSR Classics) Paul Dunkel, flute; Peter Basquin, piano Amazon.com also includes works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Giulio Briccialdi, Claude Debussy, and Robert di Domenica.

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PROGRAM NOTE

DAL DOSAI takes its title and movement names from the realm of Indian cuisine. Dal Dosai is a pancake usually stuffed with curried potatoes or other spiced vegetables. Garam Masala is an aromatic mixture of nutmeg, cloves, black pepper, and cinnamon, all ground together and sprinkled on the dal at the very end. Asafoetida is a pungent resin extracted from ferula root. When it is cooked in hot oil, its odor dissipates, exuding instead a warm truffle-like flavor. Asafoetida is usually the first ingredient added to a flavoring of oil and spices called a Tarka, the last step of preparing a dal. As the Tarka heats up, it pops, sprays and splatters. The amusing musical-culinary associations only stay at the surface level, though. The real inspiration was the simple idea of composing music that is both rigorous and whimsical, both intellectual and fun.