Nicolas Flagello was one of the last American composers to pursue traditional romantic musical values, intensified by modernist innovations in harmony and rhythm, but without recourse to the fashionable experimental practices of the post-World War II years. The three works heard in these world première recordings encompass Flagello’s entire compositional career. Ranging from the Piano Concerto No. 1, which here receives only its second performance, to the Concerto Sinfonico, his final composition, they are powerful and deeply expressive creations filled with emotional turbulence and surging rhythms.