For his Hyperion debut, pianist Luís Duarte has chosen a selection of works by one of the major figures in twentieth-century Portuguese music. Most of the music in Glosas & other piano works by Fernando Lopes-Graça may date from a single decade—the 1950s—but it explores a wide range of styles, moods and influences, from the opening set of Glosas, ‘glosses’ on eleven traditional Portuguese songs (folk music exerted a powerful influence on Lopes-Graça throughout his life); through five graceful Lullabies, three of which are heard here in first recordings; to the concluding Album for the young pianist which, beyond its obvious educational purpose, invites stylistic comparisons with Bartók’s Mikrokosmos.