Jean Pierre Armengaud - Henri Dutilleux: Piano Works (Piano Sonata, Le Loup, 3 Preludes)

The music in this album spans a forty-year period from 1948 to 1988 and reflects DUTILLEUX�s stylistic development as a composer. He considered the Sonata to be the first main work in his catalogue and it represents a turning away from tradition and embraces the transformative musical explorations of the day. The Three Pr�ludes are pieces of concentrated atmospheres, �a kind of study of timbres�, in the composer�s words, and each are dedicated to a renowned pianist: No. 1 to Arthur Rubinstein, No. 2 to Claude Helffer, and No. 3 to Eugene Istomin. Dutilleux�s lively music for the ballet Le Loup (�The Wolf�) is heard here in a premi�re recording of the original piano solo version.