GLASS / ADAMS / ten HOLT / EINAUDI / RICHTER / SAKAMOTO / PART / etc
Best of Minimal Piano Music Jeroen van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Highlights from the award-winning, much-praised series of Brilliant Classics recordings by today's leading champion of minimalist piano repertoire. |
JACOB ter VELDHUIS
Complete Solo Piano Music Jeroen van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 24/Jun/2013 ] Called "the Andy Warhol of new music", JacobTV (Jacob Ter Veldhuis) has a dynamic and fast‐moving career. This two‐disc collection is the brainchild of JacobTV himself and Jeroen van Veen, who has been performing Jacob's music since 2001. |
ARVO PART
Part: Fur Anna Maria: Complete Piano Music Jeroen Van Veen (Piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] "Jeroen van Veen's recording can stand alongside the best from any source, and this set is worthy of high praise in every regard." MusicWeb International, 5th November 2014 |
PHILIP GLASS
Glass: Complete Piano Etudes Jeroen van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Dec/2017 ] Philip Glass' Piano Etudes stand at the end of a long line of development, starting with "exercises" by Scarlatti, through romantic piano etudes composers such as Clementi, Czerny, Hummel, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, to... |
GEORGES GURDJIEFF / THOMAS de HARTMANN
Gurdjieff / de Hartmann: Complete Music For the Piano Jeroen van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 15/Oct/2021 ] Dutch pianist Jeroen van Veen, a pioneer of unusual repertoire, recorded the complete piano music of Gurdjieff/De Hartmann, 6 CDs of extraordinary, meditative and deeply spiritual music. |
LUDOVICO EINAUDI
Piano Music Jeroen van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Jan/2015 ] Ludovico Einaudi may well become the "Satie of the 21st century". His minimalist, deceptively simple piano works reach a massive audience well beyond the strict boundaries of traditional classical music. |
YANN TIERSEN
'Pour Amélie' Piano Music Jeroen van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 24/Sep/2015 ] The maestro of Minimalist piano music has done it again, with an album of gentle melodies and soothing sounds from Yann Tiersen (b.1970) a composer best known outside his native France for the soundtrack to the movie Amélie (2001): the soundtrack... |
MAX RICHTER
Richter: Solo Piano Music Jeroen van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Jan/2017 ] Having made a gradual switch during the 15 years since his first album was published from electronica to instrumental variations on ambient and minimalism, Max Richter is among the most commercially successful composers of our time. This album of his... |
TERRY RILEY
Riley: In C Jeroen van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Dec/2015 ] Terry Riley is one of the founders of the Minimalist Movement. His most famous and ground breaking work, "In C", is based on structured interlocking repetitive patterns, creating a hypnotic, multi‐layered aural sensation, which inspired many compoers... |
SATIE
Slow Music Jeroen Van Veen (Piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] The recent trend for "slow" (such as slow food as opposed to fast food) may also be applied to music, and most particularly to the music of Erik Satie, the French eccentric, who created his own most personal aesthetics. In his music slowness does not... |
PHILIP GLASS
Solo Piano Music Jeroen Van Veen (Piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] A new compilation of the music for piano solo by Philip Glass, icon of minimalism. |
ZBIGNIEW PREISNER
Preisner: Piano Music; Jeroen van Veen (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 13/Apr/2018 ] Like Zbigniew Preisner (born in 1955) is Poland's leading film music composer and is considered to be one of the most outstanding film composers of his generation. For many years Preisner enjoyed a close collaboration with the director Krzysztof... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Minimal Piano Collection Vol 10 - 20 [compositions for 2 to 6 pianos] Jeroen Van Veen (Piano) and friends [ Brilliant Classics / 11 CD Box Set - released 10/Nov/2010 ] Fanfare Music: "Dutch pianist and composer, Jeroen van Veen, the leading exponent of minimalism in Holland today", Alan Swanson, Jan 2010. |
SIMEON TEN HOLT
Incantatie IV: for three pianos Jeroen van Veen (piano), Sandra van Veen (piano) & Tamara Rumiantsev (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2014 ] According to pianist Jeroen van Veen performing this work is like "looking at the sea: all the time there are changes in colour, radiance, and momentum, never an exact repetition". |
JEROEN VAN VEEN
Van Veen: Piano Music Volume 2 Jeroen van Veen (piano/organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 7 CD Box Set - released 22/Jun/2018 ] Jeroen van Veen established himself as "The leading exponent of minimalism today" (Fanfare), "Jeroen van Veen has been a powerhouse in the piano world" (Musicweb) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Minimal Piano Collection Vol 1 to 9 Jeroen Van Veen (Piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 9 CD Box Set - released 30/Jun/2009 ] This unusual collection is dedicated to a very popular style: minimalist music. The style has evolved from austere, almost strict repetition to a more varied and free approach to material and technique. The set includes works for solo piano by most... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / Overtures - Prometheus, Fidelio, Leonore 2 & 3 / Grosse Fuge Joan Sutherland, Norma Procter, Arnold Van Mill / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet [ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "…the depth and concentration of the Ansermet shines decisively out… Ansermet's reading is taut and imposing" Gramophone |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Great Sacred Works (Incls Stabat Mater & Nisi Dominus) Jochen Kowalski (counter-tenor) Nico van der Meel (tenor) / Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra / Vittorio Negri [ ABC Eloquence / CD - released 8/Jul/2005 ] One could be forgiven for being surprised that sacred music does not account for a more substantial proportion of Vivaldi's life's work, especially in view of his having been ordained a priest. The music on this disc, however, presents the 'other'... |
Joe Van Loan
The Great Group And Solo Vocals Of Joe Van Loan - Yesterday's Roses 1949 - 1962 [ Jasmine / CD - released 14/May/2021 ] Joe Van Loan possessed an awesome falsetto tenor voice that enhanced the recordings of many great doo wop vocal groups of the 1950s. Best known for his tenure with The Ravens, who he eventually led for some years. He also sung with The Dixieaires,... |
W. A. MOZART
Il re pastore, K208 (complete opera) Johannette Zomer, Francine Van Der Heijden, Marcel Reijans / Musica ad Rhenum, Jed Wentz [ 2 CD ] In addition to his mastery of instrumental and sacred works, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the most celebrated operatic writers in music history. |