Jeroen van Veen

Minimal Piano Collection I
Composers: Philip Glass, John Adams, Terry Riley, Simeon ten Holt, Wim Mertens, Yann Tiersen, Michael Nyman, Jeroen van Veen e.o.

Performer: Jeroen van Veen

9 cds

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Minimal Piano Collection (Adams, Glass, Tiersen, Adams, Nyman, Cage etc); Jeroen van Veen, piano Cat.No.: 8551 EAN Code: 5029365855129 Format: 9 CD Label: Brilliant Classics Genre: Classical Performed by: Jeroen van Veen Music by Glass, Riley, Adams, Nyman, Cage, etc.; Jeroen van Veen, piano Additional information: • 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 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 piano’s. 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. CD 1 PHILIP GlASS Minimal Piano Collection, Volumes I-IX 1. Opening from ‘Glassworks’ 8:53 2. Metamorphosis One 7:03 3. Metamorphosis Two 6:54 4. Metamorphosis Three 4:23 5. Metamorphosis Four, 5:53 6. Metamorphosis Five 6:07 7. Mad Rush 15:12 8. Wichita Vortex Sutra 7:25 9. Opening from ‘Glassworks’ 9:25 Total: 71:21 Jeroen van Veen, piano CD 2 PHILIP GLASS 1. The Poet Acts 3:35 2. Morning Passages 5:25 3. Something She Has To Do 3:30 4. I’m Going To Make A Cake 3:44 5. An Unwelcome Friend 4:32 6. Dead Things 3:55 7. Why Does Someone Have to Die? 3:37 8. Tearing Herself Away 4:07 9. Escape! 3:34 10. Choosing Life 4:10 11. The Hours 7:13 12. Truman Sleeps, from ‘The Truman Show’ 2:10 13. Opening from ‘Glassworks’ 6:10 14. Olympian 3:58 Total: 59:49 Jeroen van Veen, piano CD 3 PHILIP GLASS 1. Modern Love Waltz 4:58 2. How Now 25:08 3. 'Trilogy’ Sonata; I Knee Play No. 4 from Einstein on the Beach 7:42 4. ‘Trilogy’ Sonata; II Satyagraha, Conclusion, Act III 8:50 5. ‘Trilogy’ Sonata; III Dance, from Aknaten (Scene 3) 6:25 Total: 53:08 Jeroen van Veen, piano CD 4 JOHN ADAMS 1. China Gates 5:43 2. Für Alina 2:50 3. Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka, Arvo Pärt 4:32 JOHN CAGE 4. In a Landscape 8:53 SIMEON TEN HOLT 5. Solodevilsdance IV 34:58 FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 6. Das ‘Fragment an sich’ 9:46 ERIK SATIE 7. Vexations 7:42 JOHN BORSTLAP 8. Avatâra 5:18 Total: 79:48 Jeroen van Veen, piano CD 5 YANN TIERSEN "The Movies" 1. Comptine d’un autre été; l’après-midi 2:22 2. Le moulin 3:13 3. La dispute 2:11 4. Sur le fil 4:27 5. La valse d’Amélie 2:43 6. Comptine d’été no. 1 2:56 7. Comptine d’été no. 2 2:42 8. Comptine d’été no. 3 2:46 9. Le vieux en veut encore 1:40 10. Toujours là 1:14 11. La pièce vide 1:53 MICHAEL NYMAN 12. Big my Secret 3:52 13. Lost and Found 3:01 14. The mood that passes through you 3:02 15. Deep sleep playing 2:08 16. Silver-Fingered fling 3:38 17. The attraction of the pedalling ankle 6:45 18. The heart asks pleasure first 3:13 19. Time Lapse 3:16 20. Fly Drive 1:04 21. If, Michael 4:23 22. Love 3:32 23. Digital Tragedy 3:32 24. Sheep ‘n Tides 2:40 25. Lost and Found 2:59 26. The heart asks pleasure first 3:23 Total: 78:17 Jeroen van Veen, piano CD 6 JEROEN VAN VEEN Minimal Préludes, Book I 1. Prélude nr.1 in C 5:40 2. Prélude nr.2 in A minor 4:00 3. Prélude nr.3 in G 4:38 4. Prélude nr.4 in E minor 4:23 5. Prélude nr.5 in D 3:24 6. Prélude nr.6 in B minor 3:47 7. Prélude nr.7 in A 1:04 8. Prélude nr.8 in F# minor 2:40 9. Prélude nr.9 in E 5:01 10. Prélude nr.10 in C# minor 7:19 11. Prélude nr.11 in B 5:52 12. Prélude nr.12 in G# minor 5:03 Total: 52:58 Jeroen van Veen, piano CD 7 JEROEN VAN VEEN Minimal Préludes, Book II 1. Prélude nr.13 in F sharp 6:53 2. Prélude nr.14 in E flat minor 5:18 3. Prélude nr.15 in D flat 2:36 4. Prélude nr.16 in B flat minor 2:56 5. Prélude nr.17 in A flat 4:34 6. Prélude nr.18 in F minor 10:39 7. Prélude nr.19 in E flat 3:23 8. Prélude nr.20 in C minor 4:13 9. Prélude nr.21 in B flat 4:37 10. Prélude nr.22 in G minor 6:04 11. Prélude nr.23 in F 6:07 12. Prélude nr.24 in D minor 9:54 Total: 67:20 Jeroen van Veen, piano CD 8 WIM MERTENS 1. Struggle for Pleasure 5:08 TOM JOHNSON 2. An Hour for Piano 59:22 JACOB TER VELDHUIS 3. Postnuclear Winterscenario nr. 1 9:34 Total: 74:07 Jeroen van Veen, piano CD 9 KLAAS DE VRIES 1. Toccata Americana 7:02 KLAAS DE VRIES 2. Echo 3:05 CARLOS MICHANS 3. Three Minimal Preludes 11:12 TERRY RILEY 4. In C 57:56 (Jeroen van Veen live-multitrack) Total: 79:18

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