Composer: Elisabeth Lutyens
Performer: Martin Jones
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Resonus Classics
Catalogue: RES10291
Release: 2021
Size: 957 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Preludes for Piano, Op. 126
01. I. Whose Name Was Writ in Water
02. II. Night Winds
03. III. Starlight
04. IV. Tenebrae
05. V. Strange Thunders From the Potency of Song
06. VI. Labyrinths
07. VII. The Shifting of Mighty Winds That Blow Hither and Thither All the Changing Thoughts of Man
08. The Great Seas, Op. 132
Impromptus, Op. 116
09. Impromptu I
10. Impromptu II
11. Impromptu III
12. Impromptu IV
13. Impromptu V
14. Plenum I, Op. 86
15. La natura dell’Acqua, Op. 154
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.