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Roger Reynolds At 85, Vol. 2: Piano Etudes / Eric Huebner
Mode Records

Roger Reynolds At 85, Vol. 2: Piano Etudes / Eric Huebner

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Details

Composer
REYNOLDS, ROGER
Artist
Eric Huebner
Format
CD
Label
Mode Records
Released
Aug 20, 2021
Catalog #
MOD-CD-329
UPC
764593032922

About

This is the second of two volumes celebrating “Roger Reynolds at 85,”and marks the first recording of his Piano Etudes, in two Books. Book I was written between 2010 and 2011, Book II in 2016–2017. Reynolds’ Etudes allows the performer to not only choose the number of Etudes to be presented (even repeating them, if desired) as well as their order. In this way, the performer becomes a co-creator with the composer. All 12 Etudes are presented in this recording by Eric Huebner. Each etude inhabits a world distinctly its own. Reynolds dares a remarkable leap from the first to the second book. Rather than merely continue the premises and promises established by the first six etudes, the second six constitute a difference in kind rather than an extension. Their complexity is intensified, their investigations more extreme, even though they make comparable technical demands. The Etudes carry subtle quotations from Reynolds’ own, earlier piano works as well as the traditional literature of piano etudes. The lineup Reynolds has chosen includes Chopin, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Debussy, and Ligeti. Yet these allusions are not mere homages, and these quotations range from fleeting to obsessive. Reynolds collaborated with Huebner on the 2009 Mode release, Epigram and Evolution (mode 212/13), an anthology of Reynolds’ piano works to that date. This led the composer to value Huebner’s extraordinary capacity to combine virtuoso technique with Zen-like concentration. Their artistic bond inspired Reynolds to contemplate writing his own brand of etudes.

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This is the second of two volumes celebrating “Roger Reynolds at 85” (see 11W050 for the first), and marks the first recording of his Piano Etudes, in two Books. Book I was written between 2010 and 2011, Book II in 2016–2017. Reynolds’ Etudes allows the performer to not only choose the number of Etudes to be presented (even repeating them, if desired) as well as their order. In this way, the performer becomes a co-creator with the composer. Each etude inhabits a world distinctly its own. Reynolds dares a remarkable leap from the first to the second book. Rather than merely continue the premises and promises established by the first six etudes, the second six constitute a difference in kind rather than an extension. Their complexity is intensified, their investigations more extreme, even though they make comparable technical demands. The Etudes carry subtle quotations from Reynolds’ own, earlier piano works as well as the traditional literature of piano etudes. The lineup Reynolds has chosen includes Chopin, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Debussy, and Ligeti. Yet these allusions are not mere homages, and these quotations range from fleeting to obsessive.

-- Records International

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 No. 4. Mercurial 02:09
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 4. Mercurial
    Duration
    02:09
    Composer
    Roger Reynolds
    Performer
    Eric Huebner
  2. 2 No. 5. Persistence 04:04
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 5. Persistence
    Duration
    04:04
    Composer
    Roger Reynolds
    Performer
    Eric Huebner
  3. 3 No. 2. Alternation 07:27
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 2. Alternation
    Duration
    07:27
    Composer
    Roger Reynolds
    Performer
    Eric Huebner
  4. 4 No. 3. Web 04:03
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 3. Web
    Duration
    04:03
    Composer
    Roger Reynolds
    Performer
    Eric Huebner
  5. 5 No. 6. Fixities 07:22
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 6. Fixities
    Duration
    07:22
    Composer
    Roger Reynolds
    Performer
    Eric Huebner
  6. 6 No. 1. Barrage 04:04
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 1. Barrage
    Duration
    04:04
    Composer
    Roger Reynolds
    Performer
    Eric Huebner
  7. 7 No. 7. Migration 08:22
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7. Migration
    Duration
    08:22
    Composer
    Roger Reynolds
    Performer
    Eric Huebner
  8. 8 No. 10. Concatenation 10:21
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 10. Concatenation
    Duration
    10:21
    Composer
    Roger Reynolds
    Performer
    Eric Huebner
  9. 9 No. 11. Calligraphy 07:22
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 11. Calligraphy
    Duration
    07:22
    Composer
    Roger Reynolds
    Performer
    Eric Huebner
  10. 10 No. 9. Rips 10:46
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 9. Rips
    Duration
    10:46
    Composer
    Roger Reynolds
    Performer
    Eric Huebner
  11. 11 No. 8. Insistence 08:04
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 8. Insistence
    Duration
    08:04
    Composer
    Roger Reynolds
    Performer
    Eric Huebner
  12. 12 No. 12. Fields 04:54
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 12. Fields
    Duration
    04:54
    Composer
    Roger Reynolds
    Performer
    Eric Huebner