Minimal Piano Collection Vol. I - III By Jeroen van Veen

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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 van Veen demonstrates his affinity with minimalism with great flair.

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 sheds light on the present state of minimalism.

00:00:00 Opening from ‘‘Glassworks’’ (Arr. van Veen) 00:08:53 Metamorphosis One 00:15:57 Metamorphosis Two 00:22:51 Metamorphosis Three 00:27:14 Metamorphosis Four 00:33:08 Metamorphosis Five 00:39:15 Mad Rush 00:54:28 Wichita Vortex Sutra 01:01:54 Opening from ‘‘Glassworks’’ 01:11:19 The Poet Acts 01:14:54 Morning Passages 01:20:20 Something She Has To Do 01:23:51 I’m Going To Make A Cake 01:27:36 An Unwelcome Friend 01:32:08 Dead Things 01:36:04 Why Does Someone Have To Die? 01:39:41 Tearing Herself Away 01:43:49 Escape! 01:47:23 Choosing Life 01:51:33 The Hours 01:58:46 Truman Sleeps, from ‘‘The Truman Show’’ 02:00:57 Opening from ‘‘Glassworks’’ 02:07:07 Olympian 02:11:06 Modern Love Waltz 02:16:04 How Now 02:41:13 ‘‘Trilogy’’ Sonata; I Knee Play No. 4 From Einstein On The Beach 02:48:56 ‘‘Trilogy’’ Sonata; II Satyagraha, Conclusion, Act III 02:57:46 ‘‘Trilogy’’ Sonata; III Dance, from Aknaten (Scene 3)