Clare Hammond – Etude (2015) [eClassical 24bit/96kHz]

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’. Opening with three studies from Sergei Lyapunov’s 12 Études d’exécution transcendante, composed around the turn of the last century, the programme demonstrates the tremendous developments that have taken place in writing for the piano over the past 120 years. Lyapunov modelled his ample études directly on Liszt’s set with the same title, and they epitomise the drama and passion of late Romanticism, fused with a distinctly Russian colour. In comparison, Szymanowski’s set of 12 Studies, written in 1916, are miniatures whose mercurial timbres and fleet textures suggest an affinity with Debussy’s études, composed one year earlier. ‘Twelve small piano pieces forming one whole, interesting technically, difficult’ is how Szymanowski described the set to his publisher. Born in the same year that Szymanowski died, Nikolai Kapustin initially set out to become a classical pianist, but at the age of 16 began to study jazz. In his early twenties he decided to focus on composition, and the Five Études in Different Intervals are characteristic of his output in that they fuse formal classical structures with jazz idioms. Of the four composers represented on this disc, Unsuk Chin is the only one who never trained as a pianist. Her six Études, the most recent set on this disc, are natural successors to those by Ligeti with whom Chin studied and reflect her fascination with virtuosity and the playful side of music-making.

Tracklist:

Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924)
from 12 Études d’exécution transcendante
01 Étude IV. Térek. Allegro impetuoso (1900) 04:10
02 Étude V. Nuit d’été. Lento ma non troppo (1900) 08:28
03 Étude VI. Tempête. Allegro agitato molto (1897) 04:32

Unsuk Chin (b. 1961)
Piano Études (1995-2003)
04 I. in C 03:22
05 II. Sequenzen 02:45
06 III. Scherzo ad libitum 03:12
07 IV. Scalen 02:50
08 V. Toccata 02:47
09 VI. Grains 04:14

Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
12 Studies, Op.33 (1916)
10 1. Presto 01:17
11 2. Andantino soave 01:22
12 3. Vivace assai 00:36
13 4. Presto 01:24
14 5. Andante espressivo 00:56
15 6. Vivace 00:34
16 7. Allegro molto 00:49
17 8. Lento assai mesto 01:46
18 9. Animato 00:59
19 10. Presto. Tempestoso 01:04
20 11. Andante soave 01:30
21 12. Presto 01:48

Nikolai Kapustin (b. 1937)
Five Études in Different Intervals, Op.68 (1992)
22 1. Allegro [In minor seconds] 03:23
23 2. Allegro [In fourths] 03:06
24 3. Animato [In sixths] 02:43
25 4. Vivace [In major seconds] 03:10
26 5. Animato [In octaves] 04:22

Personnel:
Clare Hammond, piano

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