MINIMAL PIANO COLLECTION X-XX
Eleven discs, fourteen hours of music. After the successful issue of Minimal Piano Collection I-IX Jeroen van Veen & friends have recorded works for 2 to 6 pianos, from - among others - Ten Holt, Eisenga, Meijering, Glass, Pärt, and Reich. With swinging effects, transformations and challenging rhythms.
TRACKS
Cloud Atlas
Theme from Wiek
City Lines
Les Chants Estivaux
MUSICIANS
Elizabeth Bergmann, Marcel Bergmann, Tamara Rumiantsev, Sandra van Veen & Jeroen van Veen
SHEET MUSIC
Cloud Atlas (2 pianos)
Theme from Wiek
City Lines (2 pianos)
Les Chants Estivaux (4 pianos)
PRESSQUOTES
FANFARE MAGAZINE
City Lines is positively romantic. The pianos are allowed to sing. I think this work would appeal to a broad audience. The ten Holt-like lyricism, rhythmic agility, and pianistic
writing of Les Chants Estivaux are highly appealing. With Cloud Atlas, played on two pianos by the van Veens, Eisenga. impresses again with a ten Holt-like
lyricism and intricacy of patterning.
MUSICWEB
City Lines is a lyrical and charmingly pianistic piece which is easy and accessible. Les Chants Estivaux is a spatially conceived piece for four pianos and is attractively colourful, using the full range of the keyboard and with a gently rhythmic momentum and joyously refined harmonic progressions. Cloud Atlas was part of a production inspired by the eponymous novel by David Mitchell. This is another elegant, even eloquent piece which made the author “homesick for a place I’ve never been.” Theme from Wiek is a gentle foil to Philip Glass, creating a conciliatory atmosphere.