Part & Veen: Tintinnabuli / van Veen, Eijlander
Details
- Composer
- Arvo Part, Jeroen van Veen
- Artist
- Jeroen Van Veen, Joachim Eijlander, Sandra Van Veen
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Brilliant Classics
- Released
- Dec 09, 2022
- Catalog #
- BRI96840
- UPC
- 5028421968407
About
Eight years ago, a two-album collection of piano music by Arvo Pärt became a Brilliant Classics best-seller (95053, now reissued on LP), with Jeroen van Veen’s playing capturing both the zeitgeist and the rapturous stillness of the Estonian composer’s aesthetic. ‘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). ‘All played with insight and a crystalline tone… almost unbearably beautiful’ (BBC Music Magazine). This sequel reprises a selection of those ‘modern classic’ recordings, and adds a trio of newly made recordings for cello and piano. Jeroen van Veen is joined by his pianist wife Sandra, and cellist Joachim Eijlander, to present a portrait of Pärt the man and the composer, attentive to and yet at times purposefully isolated from the turbulent currents of music in the second half of the last century.
The album opens with a new recording of Fratres in its familiar cello-and-piano guise, and continues with masterpieces of ‘new simplicity’ from the 1970s such as Für Alina and Pari Intervallo. Such pieces began to set out the harmonic world of ‘tintinnabuli’, characterized by open and slow-moving harmonies, for which Pärt later became famous worldwide. The Ukuaru Valss affords a rare glimpse of the composer’s lighter side, before an extended version of Für Alina and then the unearthly, imperishable echoes of Spiegel im Spiegel, which distils the sound of Part as much as any other single piece. The album concludes with Pärtomania, a newly written 20-minute tribute to the composer’s soundworld by Jeroen van Veen, scored for the same string-instrument and piano combination as Fratres and Spiegel im Spiegel. Van Veen himself discusses the unique world of Pärt’s music in a booklet introduction.
Tracklist 9 tracks
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1 Fratres (version for cello and piano) 12:45
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Fratres (version for cello and piano)
- Duration
- 12:45
- Composer
- Arvo Pärt
- Performer
- Joachim Eijlander, Jeroen van Veen
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2 Für Alina (For Alena) 03:23
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Für Alina (For Alena)
- Duration
- 03:23
- Composer
- Arvo Pärt
- Performer
- Jeroen van Veen
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3 Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka 05:57
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka
- Duration
- 05:57
- Composer
- Arvo Pärt
- Performer
- Jeroen van Veen
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4 Pari intervallo (version for piano 4 hands) 05:54
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Pari intervallo (version for piano 4 hands)
- Duration
- 05:54
- Composer
- Arvo Pärt
- Performer
- Jeroen van Veen, Sandra van Veen
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5 Ukuaru valss 02:47
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Ukuaru valss
- Duration
- 02:47
- Composer
- Arvo Pärt
- Performer
- Jeroen van Veen
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6 Für Alina (extended version) 14:30
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Für Alina (extended version)
- Duration
- 14:30
- Composer
- Arvo Pärt
- Performer
- Jeroen van Veen
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7 Für Anna Maria 01:28
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Für Anna Maria
- Duration
- 01:28
- Composer
- Arvo Pärt
- Performer
- Jeroen van Veen
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8 Spiegel im Spiegel (version for cello and piano) 10:14
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Spiegel im Spiegel (version for cello and piano)
- Duration
- 10:14
- Composer
- Arvo Pärt
- Performer
- Joachim Eijlander, Jeroen van Veen
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9 Pärtomania 22:23
- Track
- 9
- Title
- Pärtomania
- Duration
- 22:23
- Composer
- Jeroen van Veen
- Performer
- Joachim Eijlander, Jeroen van Veen