Composer: Unsuk Chin, Nikolai Kapustin, Sergei Lyapunov, Karol Szymanowski
Performer: Clare Hammond
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BIS
Catalogue: BIS2004
Release: 2015
Size: 224 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Lyapunov: 12 Études d’exécution transcendente, Op. 11
01. No. 4. Terek
02. No. 5. Summer Night
03. No. 6. Storm
04. Chin: Piano Etude No. 1, “In C”
05. Chin: Piano Etude No. 2, “Sequenzen”
06. Chin: Piano Etude No. 3, “Scherzo ad libitum”
07. Chin: Piano Etude No. 4, “Scalen”
08. Chin: Piano Etude No. 5, “Toccata”
09. Chin: Piano Etude No. 6, “Grains”
Szymanowski: Etudes, Op. 33
10. No. 1. Presto
11. No. 2. Andantino soave
12. No. 3. Vivace assai
13. No. 4. Presto
14. No. 5. Andante espressivo
15. No. 6. Vivace
16. No. 7. Allegro molto
17. No. 8. Lento assai mesto
18. No. 9. Animato
19. No. 10. Presto
20. No. 11. Andante soave
21. No. 12. Presto energico
Kapustin: 5 Studies in Various Intervals, Op. 68
22. No. 1. Allegro: Etude in minor seconds
23. No. 2. Allegro: Etude in fourths and fifths
24. No. 3. Animato: Etude in thirds and sixths
25. No. 4. Vivace: Etude in major seconds
26. No. 5. Animato: Etude in octaves
As Clare Hammond writes in the liner notes to her thought-provoking selection of piano études, the genre, at its best, ‘combines the visceral excitement of technical display with expressive, coloristic and compositional ingenuity’.