Guy Klucevsek has been scoring works for solo accordion, chamber ensembles, bands, modern dance, theater and film, since 1972. Song Of Remembrance is his nineteenth recording as a soloist. The work consists of two chamber pieces for voice and ensemble; a solo accordion selection in memory of Gyorgy Ligeti; and a concert piece for two pianos.

The album outdoes itself with each passing piece, as details full of invention and delicious painterly atmospheres move and dance with the flexible body of each work. The extended reveries of the first two chamber pieces strike a fine balance between hermetic and all-encompassing, a circular venture around a personally inscribed universe. The title track issues forth from the latter field, its flitting clarinet, wine-glass pure notes, glissandi and melodic curlicues make for a dazzling set while also hinting at a macro structure. "Incidentally, The Coroner Called" continues in this vein, as the surging momentum moves the composition from timbral tinkerings to full blooded accordion patterns which are intersected midair by the violin of Joyce Hamman.

"Tea Song" moves into more of an ethereal calm. Notably, the lyrics for the piece are an adaptation of the etchings found on a box of Chinese tea. As the supple complexities of Steve Elson's clarinet begin to paddle furiously, the sensuous yet comical words add a delightful pinch of humor to the otherwise serious proceedings. These two moods coalesce on the closing pieces that make up "Cameos". Here, piano commentaries such as "Java Good Time" tumble, spiral and dissolve into hectic silences. In no short time, without missing a step, Klucevsek then recycles these elements into a hard-worked-for serenity. The players on hand thus display a technical prodigiousness as they sculpt a vivid and positively resplendent release.