Études pour piano

Description

Orange Mountain Music is proud to present the "Piano Etudes" by Philip Glass, performed by Dutch pianist Feico Deutekom. Following his successful debut album on OMM, "Musical Offering," Deutekom's new album is a further dive into Glass's Piano Etudes, one of the most significant piano collections of the 21st century. The most common approach for pianists is to be "completists" and simply record all twenty of Glass's Etudes in order. Deutekom, one of the leading specialists of the composer on the scene today, takes a much more personal approach. Deutekom interprets and records the Etudes in a sequence that tells a very different story from that of Glass. In fact, there is a historical case to be made for re-sequencing Glass's studies as the composer himself did when he renumbered 1-6 after the first. The result is a travel narrative – a musical adventure through time with a dramatic arc different from the familiar sequence. Starting with Etude No.2, Deutekom then moves to Etude No.17 composed ten years later, then back to No. 16, then to No. 4... the listener is transported by Deutekom's playing in the form of a story told in a new way.
Etudes No.2, 17, 16, 4, 9, 5, 6, 3, 11, 18, 20