Andriessen: Miroir de Peine / Alexander, Porcelijn, Fischer, Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
July 23, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ANDRIESSEN, HENDRIK
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Fischer, Porcelijn
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 23, 2021
    • UPC
      5028421961057
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96105
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Agonie au jardin

      Composer: Hendrik Andriessen

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Roberta Alexander

      Conductor: David Porcelijn

    2. II. Flagellation

      Composer: Hendrik Andriessen

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Roberta Alexander

      Conductor: David Porcelijn

    3. III. Couronnement d'épines

      Composer: Hendrik Andriessen

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Roberta Alexander

      Conductor: David Porcelijn

    4. IV. Portement de croix

      Composer: Hendrik Andriessen

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Roberta Alexander

      Conductor: David Porcelijn

    5. V. Crusifixion

      Composer: Hendrik Andriessen

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Roberta Alexander

      Conductor: David Porcelijn

    6. Magna res est Amor

      Composer: Hendrik Andriessen

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Roberta Alexander

      Conductor: David Porcelijn

    7. Fiat Domine

      Composer: Hendrik Andriessen

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Roberta Alexander

      Conductor: David Porcelijn

    8. Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Kuhnau

      Composer: Hendrik Andriessen

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Conductor: David Porcelijn

    9. Variations on a theme by Couperin

      Composer: Hendrik Andriessen

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Paul Verheij, Ernestine Stoop

      Conductor: David Porcelijn

    10. Chromatic Variations

      Composer: Hendrik Andriessen

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Tom Reinders, Herman Vincken, Maurits Bosman, Dmitri Ferschtman

      Conductor: David Porcelijn

    11. I. Largo - Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Hendrik Andriessen

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Michael Müller

      Conductor: Thierry Fischer

    12. II. Allegro con spirito

      Composer: Hendrik Andriessen

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Michael Müller

      Conductor: Thierry Fischer

    13. I. Sonata: Allegro

      Composer: Hendrik Andriessen

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Henk Swinnen

      Conductor: Thierry Fischer

    14. II. Aria: Andante

      Composer: Hendrik Andriessen

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Henk Swinnen

      Conductor: Thierry Fischer

    15. III. Fugato a capriccio: Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Hendrik Andriessen

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Henk Swinnen

      Conductor: Thierry Fischer

    16. Canzona

      Composer: Hendrik Andriessen

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Michael Müller

      Conductor: Thierry Fischer

    17. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Hendrik Andriessen

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Tinta Schmidt von Altenstadt

      Conductor: Thierry Fischer

    18. II. Grave e lento

      Composer: Hendrik Andriessen

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Tinta Schmidt von Altenstadt

      Conductor: Thierry Fischer

    19. III. Allegro vivace

      Composer: Hendrik Andriessen

      Ensemble: Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Tinta Schmidt von Altenstadt

      Conductor: Thierry Fischer


The opulent soundworld of a Dutch late-Romantic master, still too little known outside his native country. Rarefied spirituality and refined sensuousness are the hallmarks of Hendrik Andriessen's (1892-1981) idiom, which offers an ethereal synthesis of Franckian chromaticism with an individual interpretation of classical forms and church modes. Though he trained as an organist, his writing for other solo instruments is fluent and idiomatic. The concertos for violin, cello and oboe share the silken textures of his better-known orchestral music, and this album won glowing reviews when first released in 2000. The album’s headline work is Miroir de peine, a languorous song-cycle to Henri Vangeon’s poems of religious ecstasy describing the suffering of Christ from the perspective of the Virgin Mary. It has attracted the advocacy of great sopranos from Elly Ameling to Christiane Stotijn. This 1991 recording by Roberta Alexander won an enthusiastic welcome from the critics for the poise and beauty of her performance and the richness of the engineering. Andriessen esteemed Franck as ‘a musical philosopher in the truest sense of the word,’ who drew ‘intense sentiments from the intuitive side of his genius into an orderly gestalt.’ Much the same could be said of Andriessen’s own idiom throughout his career, as this half-century retrospective over his career confirms, from the solemn lushness of Magna res est amor of 1919 to the Chromatic Variations and Cello Concertino of 1970. The Violin Concerto (1968-9) is still essentially couched in a Romantic vein, but shaded with more 20th-century accents of tonal anxiety, akin to Vaughan Williams and Casella in the 1930s. Any listener for whom conservatism is not a dirty word will relish becoming acquainted with Andriessen’s powerful expressive voice in these beautifully prepared and engineered performances.