Van Dieren: Complete Music for Piano Solo / Guild

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Label
Piano Classics
Release Date
September 23, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Bernard Van Dieren
    • PERFORMER
      Christopher Guild
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 23, 2022
    • UPC
      5029365102414
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PCL10241
    • LABEL
      Piano Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Moderato assai

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    2. No. 2. Quasi andante

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    3. No. 3. Allegro, rullante - Gracile ma distinto

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    4. No. 4. Allegramente

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    5. No. 5. Poco lento

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    6. No. 6. Poco più lento che Pezza I

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    7. Toccata

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    8. Theme: Sostenuto

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    9. Variation 1: —

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    10. Variation 2: —

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    11. Variation 3: Molto sostenuto e quasi pesante

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    12. Variation 4: Risoluto

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    13. Variation 5: Molto più lento

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    14. Variation 6: —

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    15. Variation 7: Legato

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    16. Variation 8: Martellato, assai veloce

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    17. Variation 9: Molto robusto

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    18. Variation 10: Ugalmente

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    19. Variation 11: Dolce e distante

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    20. Variation 12: Presto - Giocoso

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    21. Variation 13: Adagio molto

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    22. Variation 14: Con ultimo rapidita e brilliantemente

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    23. No. 1. Assai andante ma con dignità

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    24. No. 2. Sostenuto, romanticamente

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    25. No. 3. Presto

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    26. No. 1. Andantino (Berceuse)

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    27. No. 2. Semplice ma con solennità

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    28. No. 3. Sostenuto, con mesto

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    29. No. 4. Leggiero, giocoso

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    30. No. 5. Gaio, fresco, "Ic stontop hoghe berghen"

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    31. No. 5. Maestoso-chiarosemplice

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    32. No. 6. Poco vivo, dolce, "Daar was laatst een meisje loos"

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    33. No. 7. Andante con moto

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    34. No. 8. Semplice e tenere Tempocomodo, “Vroeg op"

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    35. No. 9. Allegro vivace, "Als ik groot ben"

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    36. No. 10. Assai secco - Diabelliescamente

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    37. No. 11. Alacramente gagliardo, "Des winters al shet reghent"

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    38. No. 12. Non troppo lento - Pesante

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    39. Piccolo pralinudettino fridato

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren

      Performer: Christopher Guild

    40. Ballad de Villon

      Composer: Bernard van Dieren, Peter Warlock

      Performer: James Reid-Baxter, Christopher Guild


Bernard Van Dieren (1887-1936) was essentially self-taught as a composer, though friendships with Schoenberg, Busoni, Sorabji, Walton, and Lambert all obliquely indicate by association both the technical confidence of his work as well as the variegated colors of his harmonic palette.

He was born in Rotterdam but fell in love with and then married a pupil of Busoni’s, Frida Kindler, who gave the first performances of most of his piano music. While earlier works such as the powerful Toccata approach Schoenbergian atonality in their tightly woven chromaticism, Van Dieren’s world is at root a diatonic one, stretching rather than breaking tonalities with a post-Wagnerian sensibility often comparable to the music of Delius. The composer himself was apparently a pianist of modest ability, but (perhaps not least thanks to Frida Kindler) he writes for the instrument with a formidable array of pianistic technique grounded in his own enduring love of counterpoint.

The most straightforwardly appealing music here is a set of 12 Dutch folk melodies on album 2, followed by a charming little prelude written for Frida’s birthday in 1934 – his last piano work before his death from a long-standing kidney complaint two years later. The pianist Christopher Guild, renowned for his advocacy of lesser-known pianistic voices, is then joined by Dr James Reid-Baxter for the first-ever recording of the Ballad de Villon, in which Van Dieren originally set a prayer to the Virgin for reciter and string quartet, with the instrumental lines later transcribed for the piano by Philip Heseltine. Album 1 features a set of six densely polyphonic ‘Sketches’ in the style of Busoni and a Theme and Variations in the grand Romantic manner.