Alma is amazing as a violin and a piano soloist. Her compositional style is, I guess, late romantic and very tuneful. I heard echoes of Brahms in the piano concerto, and her Viennese "Siren Waltzes" owes more to the Strausses than to Ravel. She explained that she had no wish to write discordant, atonal music, but she proved in her intro to the waltzes that she could write dissonance and contemporary orchestra effects like violin glissandi worthy of Stravinsky.