Etude No. 1

Etude No. 1

David Jalbert, piano John Corigliano thinks big. Just listen to the opening of his Etude Fantasy. Despite the fact that this is solo piano—the first Etude is played primarily by the left hand alone—the music is symphonic in scope with full-blown dramatic gestures that sound larger than life. Of course with the mountains come the… Read more »

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David Jalbert, piano

John Corigliano thinks big. Just listen to the opening of his Etude Fantasy. Despite the fact that this is solo piano—the first Etude is played primarily by the left hand alone—the music is symphonic in scope with full-blown dramatic gestures that sound larger than life. Of course with the mountains come the valleys, here in the form of quiet vestiges where thematic cells are delicately presented and transformed before building once again into mammoth summits of sound.

—RN