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Piano Concertos from The Netherlands [3CDs] (2025)
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Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 97000 | Recorded: 1994-1995
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Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 97000 | Recorded: 1994-1995
An unrivalled collection of lesser-known 20th-century piano concertos in both Romantic and modern styles, in definitive recordings by Dutch artists.
This survey of Dutch piano concertos actually begins in 1886, with the A minor work by Carl Smulders (1863-1934). Smulders sidesteps convention by opening not with a grand gesture but a slow, expectant build-up, breaking the template for A minor piano concertos established first by Schumann and then Grieg. The piano writing itself has a lyrically Griegian flavour, however, which Ivo Janssen brings out in this 1994 recording.
The collection steps confidently into the last century with a glittering 13-minute concerto of 1927 by Willem Pijper, and a punchy neoclassical concertino from 1928 by Henriette Bösmans, who brings sumptuous, Rachmaninoff-style lyricism to the contrasting episodes. The shadows of Bartók and Ravel continue to fall on Kees van Baaren’s 1934 Concertino, and Leo Smit’s 1937 concerto for piano and wind ensemble.
Another chronological leap forward takes the collection to 1964, with a second concerto by Van Baaren, who by now had adopted an angular serial idiom in tune with the times. From the same year, Henk Badings’ Concerto for Two Pianos casts a retrospective look at the age of expressionist film scores in a dark and turbulent but conventionally structured work.
Coming further up to date, the collection embraces the personal engagements with both modernism and the concerto tradition crafted by Tristan Keuris in 1980, and Ton de Leeuw in 1990. Finally, the 1991 concerto by Jan van Vlijmen encapsulates the musical journey of the 20th century into modernism and then towards an accommodation of its principles with tonality. Like several other composers in this set, the name of Van Vlijmen deserves to be known far wider than his native Netherlands, and this superbly prepared recording presents the most compelling case for his music.
Long unavailable since its original 1994 release on the specialist NM Classics label, this reissue by Brilliant Classics includes full booklet introductions to each composer and their work.
Tracklist:
CD1:
Henriëtte Bosmans (1895-1952)
01. Concertino for Piano and Orchestra
Kees van Baaren (1906-1970)
Concertino
02. I. Allegro moderato e molto pesante
03. II. Lento
04. III. Allegro vivace
Leo Smit (1900-1943)
Concerto
05. I. Allegro moderato
06. II. Lento (chorale)
07. III. Allegro vivace
Ton de Leeuw (1926-1996)
08. Danses sacrees
Ronald Brautigam, piano (1, 5-7)
David Kuyken, piano (2-4, 8)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
Ed Spanjaard, conductor
CD2:
Carl Smulders (1863–1934)
Concert in A minor
01. I. Moderato
02. II. Adagio
03. III. Allegro scherzando
Willem Pijper (1894-1947)
04. Conerto K.75
Kees van Baaren
05. Concerto per Pianoforte e Orchestra
Henk Badings (1907-1987)
Concert voor 2 Piano's en Orkest
06. I. Lento-Allegro
07. II. Lento
08. III. Presto
Ivo Janssen, piano (1-3)
Ronald Brautigam, piano (4)
David Kuyken, piano (5)
Ellen Corver & Sepp Grotenhuis, piano (6-8)
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
Kees Bakels, conductor (1-3, 6-8)
Jac van Steen, conductor (4)
Alexander Vedernikov, conductor (5)
CD3:
Tristan Keuris (1946-1996)
01. Piano Concerto
Jan van Vlijmen (1935–2004)
02. Concerto
René Eckhardt, piano (1)
Sepp Grotenhuis, piano (2)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Lucas Vis, conductor
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