180g Audiophile Vinyl Double LP!
Prolific recording artist with a growing discography of over 100 often groundbreaking CDs to his name, Brilliant Classics mainstay and promoter par excellence of Minimal Music Jeroen van Veen now finds himself and the music he champions so effectively the focus of six concurrent Brilliant Classic audiophile, 180g 33 1/3 rpm double LP releases, amongst the labels first forays into the reawakened vinyl market.
This is a 180g Audiophile Vinyl double LP issue of the popular and successful recording of Arvo Pärts piano works by Jeroen van Veen. The fact that Arvo Part, as of 2013, has been the most performed contemporary composer in the world for three years in a row says enough about the impact his music makes: his music of contemplation, mediation, and serenity appeals strongly to modern day audiences in a hectic, rat race world. Jeroen van Veen establishes his name as a foremost advocate of Minimalism: with little means he achieves maximum effect.
Jeroen Van Veen has released a series of acclaimed recordings on Brilliant Classics of music by the masters of Minimalism, that 1960s derived aesthetic in which it is not so much the case that more can be said with less as that less seems to be necessary in an increasingly noisy and chaotic world. The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has never counted himself as among the minimalist number, nor indeed was he schooled in their new traditions, but emerged in the 1960s as an angry and dissonant voice whose musically expressed anger against Communist oppression of his native country could barely be contained within the tumultuous textures of works such as the Third Symphony, but a combination of personal circumstances and aesthetic decisions led him to pare back his style to the world of eerie calm and yet underlying melancholy that has made works such as the Cantus in memoriam (Benjamin Britten) such an enduring favorite even among audiences who would not otherwise count themselves as aficionados of the European contemporary music scene. But then Pärt has never fit into any one stylistic box, and alongside the quiet rapture of Für Alina we may find the student era tinkling of the intriguing early Dance Pieces, as well as arrangements of classics such as Fratres and Spiegel im Spiegel that seem to preserve their special mood no matter what the instrumental forces; a quality they share with works of Pärt's compositional idol, J.S. Bach.
Features:
180g Audiophile Vinyl
Double LP
Gatefold Jacket
Made in the EU
Musicians:
Jeroen van Veen, piano
Douw Fonda, cello (A2, B1)
Sandra van Veen, piano (B2, B3)
Selections:
Arvo Part (b.1935)
Fur Anna Maria
LP 1 - Side A:
1. Fur Anna Maria (2006)
2. Fratres (1977/1980)
3. Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka (1977)
LP 1 - Side B:
1. Spiegel im Spiegel (1978)
2. Hymn to a Great City (1984/2004)
3. Pari intervallo (1976/2008)
LP 2 - Side C:
1. Sonatine Op.1, No.1 (1958)
2. Sonatine Op.1, No.2 (1959)
3. Partita, Op.2 (1958)
LP 2 - Side D:
1. Fur Alina (1976)
2. Ukuaru valss (1973/2010)
3. Fur Anna Maria (2006)
Recorded March 2013 at Van Veen Productions, The Netherlands; March 2014 Zeeuwse Concertzall, The Netherlands (Side A2, Side B1)
Prolific recording artist with a growing discography of over 100 often groundbreaking CDs to his name, Brilliant Classics mainstay and promoter par excellence of Minimal Music Jeroen van Veen now finds himself and the music he champions so effectively the focus of six concurrent Brilliant Classic audiophile, 180g 33 1/3 rpm double LP releases, amongst the labels first forays into the reawakened vinyl market.
This is a 180g Audiophile Vinyl double LP issue of the popular and successful recording of Arvo Pärts piano works by Jeroen van Veen. The fact that Arvo Part, as of 2013, has been the most performed contemporary composer in the world for three years in a row says enough about the impact his music makes: his music of contemplation, mediation, and serenity appeals strongly to modern day audiences in a hectic, rat race world. Jeroen van Veen establishes his name as a foremost advocate of Minimalism: with little means he achieves maximum effect.
Jeroen Van Veen has released a series of acclaimed recordings on Brilliant Classics of music by the masters of Minimalism, that 1960s derived aesthetic in which it is not so much the case that more can be said with less as that less seems to be necessary in an increasingly noisy and chaotic world. The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has never counted himself as among the minimalist number, nor indeed was he schooled in their new traditions, but emerged in the 1960s as an angry and dissonant voice whose musically expressed anger against Communist oppression of his native country could barely be contained within the tumultuous textures of works such as the Third Symphony, but a combination of personal circumstances and aesthetic decisions led him to pare back his style to the world of eerie calm and yet underlying melancholy that has made works such as the Cantus in memoriam (Benjamin Britten) such an enduring favorite even among audiences who would not otherwise count themselves as aficionados of the European contemporary music scene. But then Pärt has never fit into any one stylistic box, and alongside the quiet rapture of Für Alina we may find the student era tinkling of the intriguing early Dance Pieces, as well as arrangements of classics such as Fratres and Spiegel im Spiegel that seem to preserve their special mood no matter what the instrumental forces; a quality they share with works of Pärt's compositional idol, J.S. Bach.
Features:
180g Audiophile Vinyl
Double LP
Gatefold Jacket
Made in the EU
Musicians:
Jeroen van Veen, piano
Douw Fonda, cello (A2, B1)
Sandra van Veen, piano (B2, B3)
Selections:
Arvo Part (b.1935)
Fur Anna Maria
LP 1 - Side A:
1. Fur Anna Maria (2006)
2. Fratres (1977/1980)
3. Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka (1977)
LP 1 - Side B:
1. Spiegel im Spiegel (1978)
2. Hymn to a Great City (1984/2004)
3. Pari intervallo (1976/2008)
LP 2 - Side C:
1. Sonatine Op.1, No.1 (1958)
2. Sonatine Op.1, No.2 (1959)
3. Partita, Op.2 (1958)
LP 2 - Side D:
1. Fur Alina (1976)
2. Ukuaru valss (1973/2010)
3. Fur Anna Maria (2006)
Recorded March 2013 at Van Veen Productions, The Netherlands; March 2014 Zeeuwse Concertzall, The Netherlands (Side A2, Side B1)
