Four composers; four great representatives of their respective epochs: the program begins with the most recent work, Alban Berg’s Sonata op. 1, an early composition that is still bound to classical form and tonality, but which already contains features of the coming age. Berg’s sonata is followed by the highly virtuosic Paganini Variations by Brahms, Beethoven’s Variations in C-Minor from 1806 and finally, Bach’s English Suite, No. 3. Jura Margulis studied with his father, legendary pedagogue Vitaly Margulis, as well as with Leon Fleisher. He concertizes throughout the world and has a professorship at the J.W. Fullbright College at the University of Arkansas.

This album presents Jura Margulis with four outstanding pieces for piano by composers from four musical epochs. Berg stands for the dawning of the modern era, Brahms is the great representative of the late romantic, Beethoven the genius of the classical age and Bach the consummate master of the baroque. Although the works of these composers remain formally within the conventions of their time, the compositional details show that their creators were single-mindedly searching for new means of expression.