Despite this being an American recording for a Swiss record company, the composer Fernande Decruck was French. She was born in Paris in 1896 and studied there with the famed organist Marcel Dupré. Organ was her instrument, and she composed a good deal of music for it, but her husband Maurice was a saxophonist. They moved to the US in 1928, where Maurice played saxophone and double bass in the New York Philharmonic under Toscanini. 

During this period, Decruck wrote several pieces for the saxophone, and these are the basis of her legacy. On this recording, Volume 2 of her concertante works, we are given the alternative version of her Sonata (with orchestra), using the viola. The original Sonata for Saxophone (with orchestra) may be heard on Volume 1. In 1937, her marriage ended, and Fernande moved with her children to Toulouse. She continued to compose full time and died at the young age of 57 in 1954.

I had not come across Decruck before receiving this disc to review, but on this showing her orchestral works should be much better known. The...