kojiattwood wrote:The Mereaux etudes I've heard from Cyprien are absolutely stunning (and exceptionally difficult!)
I have also now heard these 5 studies. I'm not sure that 2 of them should have been included in Katsaris' collection - (the musical substance is pretty watery) - but the artist chooses!
The other three are quite musical actually, reminding me of Chopin, Henselt, even Beethoven, (though certainly not as great from the little I have yet heard). They are definitely to be seen (or heard) as 'études' in the original/traditional sense of the term. One of them in particular is quite spectacular, and very difficult, and had me on the edge of my seat when I first heard it.
I understand the disc, called 'Piano Rarities, Vol 2 - French Composers', is being released in the coming months and includes other curiosities
largely of a more modern (tonal and even somewhat minimal) bent, definitely from the byways of piano literature.