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We will start today with a brand new album from Montreal-based jazz pianist and composer Yves Léviellé. His latest album "L Échelle du Temps" features unusual instrumentation with piano and a string quintet with Lizann Gervais and Olivier Thouin on violins, François Vallières on viola, Émili Girard-Charest on cello, and Étienne Lafrance on doublebass. Richly textured and joyful music. We will also hear from a new collection from Marston records, a purveyor of rare recordings from a "golden age" of pianists and singers mostly from the 1920 s-50 s. This collection features Russian emigré husband and wife team Pierre Luboshutz and Genia Nemenoff. They were both from Jewish-Russian families and both their families were part of a long tradition, which continues to this day, of artistic and cultural elite fleeing repressive authoritarian rule in Russia. Luboshutz and Nemenoff met at the Paris conservatory and they ended up in the New York City where they married