From her debut album on Delphian, pianist Máire Carroll presents Philip Glass' complete etudes for solo piano.
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Music for solo piano played a peripheral role during the first three decades of Philip Glass’s composing career, but from the 1990s onward he was increasingly in demand for solo performances of his own music. Keen both to provide himself with new repertoire and to develop his technical skills as a pianist, he set to work on Book 1 of what would eventually become a set of twenty etudes whose virtuosic surfaces conceal some of the composer’s most intensely personal music.
Drawing on the form’s historical past while also breaking ...