Glass: Complete Piano Etudes
Jeroen van Veen (piano)
Glass’s love of repeated rhythmic and harmonic patterns is suited to the etude form. Van Veen can be heavy-handed, but this is a hypnotic listen
Glass: Complete Piano Etudes
Jeroen van Veen (piano)
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Glass’s love of repeated rhythmic and harmonic patterns is suited to the etude form. Van Veen can be heavy-handed, but this is a hypnotic listen
About
Philip Glass’ Piano Etudes stand at the end of a long line of development, starting with “exercises” by Scarlatti, through romantic piano etudes composers such as Clementi, Czerny, Hummel, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, to 20‐th century masters like Ligeti and Cage.
Philip Glass, icon of the Minimal Music, wrote these etudes between 1991 and 2012, to “explore a variety of tempi, textures and piano techniques”, and also “to become a better player”.
Jeroen van Veen, celebrated pioneer of the performance of Minimal Music and Extraordinary Repertoire, considers these etudes as “refreshingly new, really adding something to the existing repertoire, the challenge being not only the technical hurdles but mainly the endurance and concentration”.
Contents and tracklist
- Jeroen van Veen (piano)
- Recorded: 27-28 February 2017
- Recording Venue: Van Veen Productions, Studio II, Pernissimo, Pernis, The Netherlands
- Jeroen van Veen (piano)
- Recorded: 27-28 February 2017
- Recording Venue: Van Veen Productions, Studio II, Pernissimo, Pernis, The Netherlands
Awards and reviews
March 2018
Glass’s love of repeated rhythmic and harmonic patterns is suited to the etude form. Van Veen can be heavy-handed, but this is a hypnotic listen
February 2018
Van Veen is quite brilliant in the quirky fourth and his reading of the exquisite, valedictory 20th is excellent. He also manages to capture the dark menacing character of the 11th while imparting an appropriate sense of grandeur to the processional 15th.
