EAN: 5028421949109

PIANO MUSIC - JEROEN VAN VEEN (CD)

When Einaudi burst onto the classical music scene some 20 years ago  critics were at first
unsure how to react. What to make of a composer who has arguably broken through the boundaries
of traditional classical music  forging his own path and attracting millions of fans? How to
classify his soothing  peaceful  stunningly beautiful compositions? No one could have foreseen
the astonishing precedent Einaudi has set  having had an important role in bringing classical
music into the mainstream and at the same time asking us to forget our traditional categories
and labels  and just sit back and enjoy his unique works. Pianist and composer Jeroen van Veen
has long been a fan of Einaudi's deceptively simple style. Here he has brought together a
personal selection of the composer's best works  and any listener unfamiliar with Einaudi up
until now will soon see why he has garnered the enormous fame and attention he enjoys worldwide
today. Jeroen van Veen remarks  Contrary to ordinary classical music  minimal music demands
little of the listener but to escape life's troubles for a moment  no comprehensive musical
structures ask their full attention. All his compositions are more or less based on the music
he heard heard when he was a child  when his mother played Chopin Preludes. Einaudi (grandson
of the politician Luigi Einaudi) loved the almost hypnotic soft sound of the upright piano.
Because of her he started to play the piano and tried to find his own way. The melody (if there
is any at all) always goes down  hardly leaving the classical path of harmonies. His music is
ambient  calm  meditative and often introspective  drawing on minimalism and contemporary pop.

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