Dutilleux/ Armengaud - Piano WorksThe 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 Prludes are pieces of concentrated atmospheres, 'a kind of study of timbres', in the composer's words, and each are dedicated to a

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The great Russian American violinist Albert Markov was born in 1933 in Kharkov

The acclaimed Music in Exile series explores the works of composers forced to flee Europe during the tumultuous decade of the 1930s and has been presented in Tel Aviv

several celebrated contemporary composers have also dedicated major new works to him

The singer and jazz drummer François-Alexandre Galepides was better known as Moustache

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and together they made a series of recordings during the late 1950s which have long been prized for their warmth and spontaneous-sounding expression

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