Complete Music For Piano Solo

Though Dutilleux began composing at an early age and undertook the rigorous course of study at the Paris Conservatoire, he regarded his Piano Sonata of 1946-8 as an Opus 1. The musical language is as much modal as tonal, owing as much to Bartók’s methods of musical organization and the 19th-century Germanic concept of the large-scale masterpiece as contemporary developments in harmony. (Piano Classics)