The shifting colors of this music are vividly revealed here (mostly by the playing but in part by the beautiful-sounding instrument). This is Aline Piboule's first solo album, but instead of boring us with yet another heap of tepidly-played Chopin she has chosen two composers close to her heart (and mine): Faure and Dutilleux. This is the best performance of the Dutilliex piano sonata I've heard yet, alive to it's most subtle changes in the quiet parts and elsewhere pulling off its rhythmic games with a cool swagger — rather than the awkwardness or blurry rushing this music usually falls subject to. Add to that truly fine Faure playing on the other tracks: two of his longer pieces, both packed with incident.

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