The two works featured in this CD come from Sohal’s third decade as a professional composer and are among his most compelling. They reveal a stylistic change in his music in keeping with the rise of various kinds of neo Romanticism in several parts of the Western world from the late 1960s.

The shift is evident from the composer’s use of tonal motivic material; standard orchestral forces for evocative effects, and a less stringent harmonic language than that found in his works from the late 1960s, when his idiom was more closely aligned with those of the avant-garde.