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Album Summary
Performer
Jeroen Van Veen (Piano)
Notes & Reviews:
"Van Veen's passionate feeling for this repertoire is evident in the care he devotes to discovering and bringing out the distinctiveness of each piece... Van Veen proves himself a genuine virtuoso of the old-fashioned variety, with the dazzling technique and endurance to tear through Simeon ten Holt's knuckle-busting 35-minute perpetuum mobile, Solodevilsdance IV, and make it thrillingly expressive. A number of the movements of Van Veen's own two-hour set of 24 Minimal Préludes reveal his predilection for Glass' aesthetic, but some are farther ranging, even requiring preparing the piano, and they make an appealing set, if a daunting challenge for a performer. The set closes, appropriately, with an hour-long, multitrack version of the granddaddy of minimalist music, Riley's In C, which is surprisingly effective and richly textured with keyboards playing all the parts." -All Music Guide
"This unusual collection is dedicated to a very popular style: minimal music. Over the years this has evolved from austere, almost strict repetition with tiny 'movements' to a more varied and free approach to material and technique.This set includes works for piano solo by most of the famous 'minimal' composers. Starting with the initiator, if you will, Cage, and followed by the first generation entirely devoting itself to this style: Riley and Glass (Steve Reich did not write anything for solo piano). The next generation is represented by John Adams and Michael Nyman (his music for the film The Piano). Dutch pianist Jeroen van Veen is fascinated by minimal music. He was one of the initiators and participants of the highly successful complete recordings on 11 CD's of Simeon ten Holt's - a Dutch 'minimalist' - complete works for multiple pianos. On this solo album once again he demonstrates with great flair his affinity with minimalism. The repertoire included here also comprises compositions by Satie, Friedrich Nietzsche and Arvo Pärt. There are two CD's with music by the pianist himself and several recordings of minimal pieces by other present-day French, Belgian and Dutch composers. This attractive set will appeal to a wide audience and may shed some light on the present state of minimalism.
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Works Details
Glass, Philip : Opening - Performer: Jeroen Van Veen (Piano)
- Running Time: 8 min. 53 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1981
- Studio/Live: Studio
Glass, Philip : Metamorphoses (5) - Performer: Jeroen Van Veen (Piano)
- Running Time: 7 min. 3 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1988
- Studio/Live: Studio
Glass, Philip : Mad Rush - Running Time: 15 min. 12 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1981
Glass, Philip : Wichita Vortex Sutra - Running Time: 7 min. 25 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1988
Glass, Philip : Opening - Running Time: 9 min. 25 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1981
Glass, Philip : The Hours - Running Time: 3 min. 35 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Form: Film Score
- Written: 2002
Glass, Philip : The Truman Show - Running Time: 2 min. 10 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Form: Film Score
- Written: 1998
Glass, Philip : Opening - Running Time: 6 min. 10 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1981
Glass, Philip : The Olympian - Running Time: 3 min. 58 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1984
Glass, Philip : Modern Love Waltz - Running Time: 4 min. 58 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Form: Waltz
- Written: 1977
Glass, Philip : How Now - Running Time: 25 min. 8 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
Glass, Philip : Trilogy Sonata for Piano - Running Time: 7 min. 42 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1998
Adams, John : China Gates - Running Time: 5 min. 43 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1977
Pärt, Arvo : Für Alina - Running Time: 2 min. 50 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1976
Pärt, Arvo : Variations for Arinuschka's Recuperation - Running Time: 4 min. 32 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1977
Cage, John : In a Landscape - Running Time: 8 min. 53 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Written: 1948
Holt, Simeon ten : Solo Devil's Dance no 4 - Running Time: 34 min. 58 sec.
- Period Time: Modern
- Written: 1998
Nietzsche, Friedrich : Das "Fragment an sich" - Running Time: 9 min. 46 sec.
- Period Time: Romantic
- Written: 1871
Satie, Erik : Vexations - Running Time: 7 min. 42 sec.
- Period Time: Post Romantic
- Written: 1893
Borstlap, John : Avatâra - Running Time: 5 min. 18 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 1980
