Louise Talma - Six Etudes for piano

Louise Talma (1906 - 1996) - Six Etudes for piano (1954) I. Allegro [0:00] II. Prestissimo [2:23] III. Allegro [3:53] IV. Allegro [5:46] V. Allegretto grazioso [6:58] VI. Molto adagio [8:52] Theresa Bogard, piano (1999) “Composed in 1954, the Six Etudes were Talma’s first published twelve-tone works. With the Etudes, she imposes dual compositional restrictions–serial technique and focus on a specific technical concern for each piece. Still, she is more concerned with the resulting music than with the compositional process alone. In a letter responding to questions from a student writing about her Etudes, Talma says, ’The Etudes were written to challenge the pianist technically and musically. For this I chose six pianistic problems which, with the exception of the staccato one (no. 2), had not been the subject of previous etudes, at least of those known to me.’ And later in the letter: ’As for your second question about their being “u