4/30/2023 0 Comments Bill evans peace piece midi![]() ![]() Repeated notes jump from register to register, suggesting the dapper syncopations of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. The first Étude’s Latino elements come more aggressively to the fore in the Toccatina (No 3), with the young, passionate Scriabin peeking in at fleeting lyrical moments. Its outer sections filter Arensky and Lyapunov through Kapustin’s jazz-tinted eyeglasses, in contrast to pure, unadulterated jazz fantasia characterizing the central episode. Nor do the second Étude’s equally difficult yet gentler double notes that provide a contemporary counterpart to Rachmaninov’s Prelude Op 23 No 9. ![]() Yet for all the music’s giddy groove and melodic uplift, its tempestuous, Chopinseque figurations never relent. No 1 (Allegro assai) tears out from the starting gate with a twelve-bar introduction that quickly transports us to the crowded streets of Rio de Janeiro at the height of Carnival season. For stylistic breadth, formidable technical challenges, and audacious invention, the Eight Concert Études, Op 40 (1984) more than hold their own with the genre’s celebrated benchmarks, from Liszt and Lyapunov to Godowsky’s retooled Chopin and Earl Wild’s Gershwin transformations. ![]()
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