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Malcolm Goldstein (b. 1936) has been labeled as an improviser and a composer-violinist (or merely a violinist). What this CD once and for all shows is that he is indeed those things, but encompassing them all is the fact that, profoundly, he is a composer. As he points out, At the core of Baroque music was the integration of composition and improvisation, and Goldstein brings the perspective and focus of a seasoned performer to this undertaking. In this way his music represents a further evolution of that compositional-improvisational dialogue begun in the early 1950s in the aleatoric, chance pieces of composers like John Cage, Earle Brown, Christian Wolff and Morton Feldman.