Glass: Complete Piano Études for piano

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0:00:00 Etudes for Piano Book I: I. Etude in G Minor 0:06:29 Etudes for Piano Book I: II. Etude in A Minor 0:13:56 Etudes for Piano Book I: III. Etude in A Major 0:18:42 Etudes for Piano Book I: IV. Etude in D Minor 0:23:05 Etudes for Piano Book I: V. Etude in F Minor 0:32:55 Etudes for Piano Book I: VI. Etude in F Minor

0:38:44 Etudes for Piano Book I: VII. Etude in A Minor 0:53:24 Etudes for Piano Book I: VIII. Etude in C Major 1:00:28 Etudes for Piano Book I: IX. Etude in F Minor 1:04:21 Etudes for Piano Book I: X. Etude in E-Flat Major 1:12:58 Etudes for Piano

Book II: XI. Etude in C Minor 1:21:28 Etudes for Piano Book II: XII. Etude in D Minor 1:29:12 Etudes for Piano Book II: XIII. Etude in F Major 1:34:09 Etudes for Piano Book II: XIV. Etude in A-Flat Major 1:40:26 Etudes for Piano Book II: XV. Etude in D Major

1:48:13 Etudes for Piano Book II: XVI. Etude in G Minor 1:53:57 Etudes for Piano Book II: XVII. Etude in F Minor 2:02:39 Etudes for Piano Book II: XVIII. Etude in G Minor 2:07:08 Etudes for Piano Book II: IXX Etude in C Major 2:12:58 Etudes for Piano Book II: XX. Etude in C Major

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Along with the two books of piano studies by Gyorgy Ligeti, the Études of Philip Glass have taken their place as modern classics of the literature, serving both a didactic purpose to train the fingers and minds of their performers, but also bringing their unique sound worlds to new audiences.

Glass himself remarked that the first book, compiled from work between 1991 and 2012, had a twin objective, ‘to explore a variety of tempi, textures and piano techniques.

At the same time, it was meant to serve as a pedagogical tool by which I would improve my piano playing.’ The studies of Book 2 (2012-14) are often bolder in finding new structures and fresh keyboard colors.

Each of the 20 Études handles a specific piano technique, and the two books are united by the instantly recognizable quirks of Glass’s harmonic language and, as Jeroen van Veen remarks in his booklet note, ‘in almost all the études, endurance is the main issue to overcome’.

Jeroen van Veen

"Dutch pianist and composer Jeroen van Veen, the leading exponent of minimalism in Holland today, Alan Swanson (Fanfare)"

Jeroen Van Veen started playing the piano at the age of 7. He studied at the Utrechts Conservatorium with Alwin Bär and Håkon Austbö. In 1993 he passed the Performing Artists’ Exam.

Van Veen has played with orchestras conducted by Howard Williams (Adams), Péter Eötvös (Zimmermann) in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Vienna, and Budapest and the United States with Neal Stulberg (Mozart & Bartók) and Robert Craft (Stravinsky).

He has played recitals in Austria, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Russia & the USA.

Van Veen attended master classes with Claude Helffer, Hans-Peter & Volker Stenzl, and Roberto Szidon. He was invited to several festivals, a.o. the Reder Piano Festival (1988), Festival der Kunsten in Bad Gleichenberg (1992), Wien Modern (1993), Holland Dance Festival (1998) Lek Art Festival (1996–2007). Van Veen recorded for major Dutch Radio- and Television companies like AVRO, NOS, IKON, NCRV, TROS/Internet, WTBC-TV & Radio (Florida, U.S.A.), and Moscow Television. In 1992, Van Veen recorded his first CD with his brother Maarten as the internationally recognized Piano duo Van Veen. In 1995 Piano duo Van Veen made their debut in the United States. They were prizewinners in the prestigious 4th International Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition in Miami, Florida. After this achievement, they toured the United States and Canada many times. The documentary Two Pianos One Passion (nominated for an Emmy Award in 1996) documents them as a duo.

Besides performing, Jeroen is co-founder and artistic director of the International Student Piano Competition, which is held in Utrecht every two years. In 1995 Jeroen Van Veen founded Van Veen & Van Veen (Van Veen & Co.), a piano duo with Sandra Van Veen. As such, they mainly perform music for multiple pianos by the Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt. Furthermore, in 1999 Van Veen initiated a concert series Pianova in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam.

Besides his career as a solo pianist, Van Veen also participates in the following ensembles: Piano Ensemble, The International Piano Quartet, The Simeon Quartet, Piano Mania, DJ Piano, and Jeroen van Veen & Friends.

The various compositions by Van Veen could be described as Minimal Music with different faces, and crossovers of jazz, blues, soundscape, Avant-garde, techno, trance, and pop music. Currently, Van Veen is director of Van Veen Productions, Chairman of the Simeon ten Holt Foundation, Culemborg Cultural Foundation, Pianomania Foundation, and artistic director of several music festivals in Culemborg, Utrecht and Veldhoven. He is active in the International Utrecht Student Piano Competition and the Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition.

Over the last 25 years, Van Veen recorded more than 200 CDs for several labels (Mirasound, Koch, Naxos, Brilliant Classics) and his label PIANO.

The piano playing in Stravinsky’s Les Noces surpassed that of the distinguished musicians in the composer’s recording, according to The New York Times.

The recording of Erik Satie’s music for piano four hands with Sandra van Veen was rated on Classics Today with 10 out of 10 for artistic quality and 10 out of 10 for sound quality and said it to be “…a must for Satie fans.”