Two powerhouse performers, cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Geoffrey Burleson, come together on Odd Couple, released September 16 from Oxingale Records.

Odd Couple Celebrates Elliott Carter’s 100th birthday with a new recording of one of his most popular and loved works, the Sonata for Cello and Piano.  David Sanford’s jazz and funk-inspired 22 Part I takes up where the distinctively American sound of early Carter leaves off, and Samuel Barber’s Cello Sonata Op. 6 contrasts a European romanticism to Augusta Read Thomas’ more modern Cantos for Slava, dedicated to the memory of Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007) Thomas’s work was commissioned for Haimovitz by ASCAP as part of Haimovitz’s 2006 Concert Music Award for outstanding contribution to the performance of American Music.