This first volume devoted to Arthur Vincent Lourié’s piano music traces his journey from the Debussian Impressionism of his youthful Cinq Préludes fragiles, Op. 1 through absorption of Scriabin’s chromaticism in the eerie Masques (Tentations) of 1913 to the near– Cubism of Formes en l’air. Although Lourié was lauded¡Xor derided¡Xas a pioneering Futurist, his post–Revolutionary writing in France embraced a nostalgic Neo–Classicism represented by the Petite Suite en Fa.