The Etudes Project. Volume One - Iceberg

This album, the first documentation of a sweeping project conceived by Lin, includes some of the most famous examples - Debussy, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Messiaen, Ligeti, and Glass - alongside equally noteworthy contributions to the format by such mavericks as Ruth Crawford Seeger, Toshio Hosokawa, and Unsuk Chin. Lin further pairs each of her canonical selections with an entirely new work by a member of Iceberg New Music, a determinedly heterodox collaborative of 10 gifted young composers who represent a broad range of stylistic inclinations, but who are united by their enduring faith in substance and craft. Bucking a current fad, the new études were not proposed as sequels or responses to existing works.