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Thursday, August 27, 2020

Philip Glass - Complete Etudes for Piano (Jenny Lin)


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Composer: Philip Glass
  • CD1: Etudes Nos. 1-10
  • CD2: Etudes Nos. 11-20

Jenny Lin, piano
Date: 2017
Label: Steinway & Sons
https://www.steinway.com/music-and-artists/label/philip-glass-etudes-jenny-lin

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Review

Philip Glass' 20 études for piano were written in two sets, with Glass himself as the intended performer. Like Chopin's études, however, they are susceptible to an unusually wide range of possible interpretations. Jenny Lin has been close to Glass at various points in the works' development, but this does not mean that she is obligated to follow his lead in terms of interpretation. Indeed, it's the best possible news for his music that any prescriptions he may have laid down are now being discarded in favor of variety. Lin has performed on bills where the etudes are performed in a group to show their versatility. The etudes fit generally into Glass' late style, introducing Romantic elements into a harmonically varied minimalist language. Lin offers some of the widest dynamic ranges to be heard on recordings of Glass' keyboard and chamber music, and her performances are sweeping and powerful. Sample the spacious Etude No. 7, in which Glass' music takes on real epic stature, or the quiet conclusion to the whole (the Etude No. 20). Lin made the recordings on four separate occasions, all at the acoustically superb Steinway Hall, and the études, like Chopin's, were perhaps not meant to be played all together. Maybe this is a lot of Philip Glass at once, but the increasing variety of Glass recordings, beyond his own Orange Mountain Music label, is nothing but good news for lovers of his music, and this must be one of the strongest new entries in the field.

-- James Manheim, AllMusic

More reviews:
https://www.audaud.com/philip-glass-complete-etudes-for-piano-jenny-lin-steinway-sons-2/
https://www.amazon.com/Glass-Complete-%C3%89tudes-Jenny-Lin/dp/B076YJNBNM

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Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the late 20th century. Glass's compositions have been described as minimal music, similar to other "minimalist" composers such as Steve Reich and Terry Riley, but Glass has described himself instead as a composer of "music with repetitive structures". He has written numerous operas and musical theatre works, eleven symphonies, eleven concertos, seven string quartets and various other chamber music, and film scores. Three of his film scores have been nominated for Academy Awards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Glass
http://philipglass.com/

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Jenny Lin (born 1973) is a Taiwanese-born American pianist. She studied music at Vienna's Hochschule für Musik with Noel Flores and later on at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore with Julian Martin. She also studied with Richard Goode, Dmitri Bashkirov, and Andreas Staier. Lin is one of those adventurous pianists unafraid to tackle contemporary repertory or to explore the works of lesser-known composers of generations past. She has been serving on the faculty at the 92nd Street Y (92Y) cultural institution in New York, and has made recordings for Steinway & Sons, Hänssler Classics, BIS, and Koch International.
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jenny-lin-mn0001518455/biography

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