The name Elisabeth Lutyens is synonymous with music that is overtly serial, uncompromisingly modernist, and of daring and fearless individuality. Yet there is much to explore behind the naturally combative and provocative façade of this extraordinary composer, whose music is at various times sensual, thoughtful and delicate, as well as dark, turbulent and even violent.

With a programme of works all composed in the last decade of her life, and containing world premiere recordings, the first volume of pianist Martin Jones's survey of Lutyens's piano works includes five works at times startling in their stark beauty, and bursting with both vivid imagery and lyrical fluidity.

Tracklist
1. Seven Preludes for Piano, Op. 126: I. Whose Name Was Writ in Water (02:49)
2. Seven Preludes for Piano, Op. 126: II. Night Winds (04:19)
3. Seven Preludes for Piano, Op. 126: III. Starlight (01:14)
4. Seven Preludes for Piano, Op. 126: IV. Tenebrae (01:41)
5. Seven Preludes for Piano, Op. 126: V. Strange Thunders From the Potency of Song (02:32)
6. Seven Preludes for Piano, Op. 126: VI. Labyrinths (03:33)
7. Seven Preludes for Piano, Op. 126: VII. The Shifting of Mighty Winds That Blow Hither and Thither All the Changing Thoughts of Man (03:52)
8. The Great Seas, Op. 132 (17:25)
9. Five Impromptus, Op. 116: Impromptu I (03:20)
10. Five Impromptus, Op. 116: Impromptu II (01:35)
11. Five Impromptus, Op. 116: Impromptu III (02:17)
12. Five Impromptus, Op. 116: Impromptu IV (01:13)
13. Five Impromptus, Op. 116: Impromptu V (01:51)
14. Plenum I, Op. 86 (12:54)
15. La natura dell'Acqua, Op. 154 (06:53)

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