Composer: Hendrik Andriessen
Performer: Jacob Nydegger
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0436
Release: 2018
Size: 914 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Fugue in G minor
Piano Sonata No. 1
02. I. Allegro
03. II. Adagio molto espressivo
04. III. Allegro
05. Passepied
06. Menuet
07. Pavane
08. The Convex Looking-Glass
09. Ballade for Piano
10. Serenade
Piano Sonata No. 2
11. I. Allegro moderato, poco maestoso
12. II. Adagio, ma non troppo
13. III. Allegro vivace e capriccioso
14. Fugue in C sharp minor
Although much else has now been recorded, the piano music of the Dutch composer Hendrik Andriessen (1892–1981) largely remain to be discovered. This first conspectus of his piano music covers fifty years of composition. It shows how early influences – among them Bach, Brahms, Franck, Hindemith and Ravel – were subsumed into a musical language distinguished by its textural clarity and harmonic warmth. Five of the works in this album are receiving their first recording.