Last year we visited Steffen Schleiermacher's Second Viennese School "Teachers and Followers" series with a excerpt from Berg's student, Klein. Schönberg, of course, had many more students and followers than Berg (he lived longer, after all, and on multiple continents), so he has more than one volume in the series. In the second Schönberg volume, Schleiermacher treats us to works by relative unknowns like Natalia Prawossudowitsch and Peter Schacht, to relatively well-knows like Marc Blitzstein and Leon Kirchner, to very well-knowns (Lou Harrison and John Cage). Amongst those in the second, or even first, category is Nikos Skalkottas. Though not a household name, he was, indeed, undoubtedly one of Schönberg's most gifted pupils outside of the obvious Berg and Webern. This month's clip is the entire first movement from his charming Suite #3, from 1940. There is great propulsion and both harmonic and melodic interest in the movement, and Skalkottas follows through in the movements which follow, culminating in an exciting Finale which very subtly harkens back to the earlier material.