This lovely collection gets off to a slow start with clunky, claustrophobically recorded arrangements of two of Dvorak's Slavonic Dances but gets up to speed in a nice account of the same composer's Silent woods, op. 68, no. 5. The recorded sound is too immediate with too little ambience, but one gets used to it after a while.

The music by the more challenging Czech composers <artinu and Janacek is especially interesting. The emotional summit of the program is Janacek's Pohadka (Fairy Tale). The penultimate of this suite's four movements will be familiar to anyone who remembers the wonderful 1988 film The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Another important work is Martinu's Sonata no. 2 for cello and piano. Martinu was a composer who never developed a distinctive style, and this may be why he isn't as well known as, for example, Dvorak or Janacek. Yet this very meaty sonata rewards the listener's attention handsomely.

Tanya Prochazkz is clearly a fine cellist. She produces a pleasing, confident sound and has the technical freedom to let her fancy lead the music in lovely directions. Pianist Milton Schlosser proves a worthy accompanist, but there are times when the duo could have found its way to a bit more nuance.