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Fania Chapiro (1926–1993) was born on the island of Java in the former Dutch East Indies to a Russian father and Dutch mother, and grew up in a deeply musical household. A remarkable piano prodigy, she was performing publicly by the age of six. In 1934 her family moved to Paris so she could study with the legendary pianist Lazare Lévy. Her promising early career was profoundly disrupted by World War II. Robert Cart, flute https://www.robertcartflute.com/ ©Black Taffy Records 2026
Walter Benedict was an Austrian-Jewish composer, pianist, and flutist born in Vienna. Although a merchant by trade, he was a trained and active musician who studied flute with Wilhelm Sonnenberg of the Vienna Philharmonic and piano with Roderich Bass. In 2025, Benedict’s original manuscripts—seized during the Nazi era—were returned to his family in a formal restitution ceremony at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York. In August 2025, Robert Cart (flute) and Steven Ryan (piano) premiered Benedict's flute sonatas at the Austrian Cultural Forum to commemorate the return of these manuscripts.
David Pasbrig. Robert Cart, flute
David Pasbrig, piano/recording engineer
Poem for flute and piano
(Charle.s Griffes)
Sonatine
(Henri Dutilleux)
Live from the Kennedy Center
First Prayer
(Ned Rorem)
Prelude I
(Riobert Muczynski)
Regrets and Resolutions
(Gary Schocker)
Soliloquy
(Lowell Liebermann)
Flute Quartet in D major, K.285
(Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus)
Trio for flute, violin, and piano
(Nino Rota)
Quintet for flute and strings
(Sergi Casanellas)
Ti (China)
from Six Preludes
(Davied Loeb)
Ephemeropterae I
(Martin Amlin)