Henrik Andriessen: Miroir de Peine, Orchestral Music & Concertos

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This is prototypical Andriessen: dignified, eloquent music, conservative in style but richly imaginative in content, draped in silken tones. — Fanfare, March/April 2022

Release Date: 23rd Jul 2021
Catalogue No: 96105
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 2 hours 1 minute

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Andriessen, H: Miroir de peine

Work length13:58

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Roberta Alexander
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
David Porcelijn

I. Agonie au jardin

Track length3:14

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II. Flagellation

Track length2:03

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III. Couronnement d'épines

Track length2:28

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IV. Portement de croix

Track length3:14

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V. Crusifixion

Track length2:59

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Andriessen, H: Magna res est amor

Work length4:20

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Roberta Alexander
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
David Porcelijn

Andriessen, H: Fiat Domine

Work length2:40

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Roberta Alexander
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
David Porcelijn

Andriessen, H: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Kuhnau

Work length13:28

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$3.85

Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
David Porcelijn

Andriessen, H: Variations on a theme by Couperin

Work length15:54

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$5.15

Paul Verheij, Ernestine Stoop
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
David Porcelijn

Andriessen, H: Chromatic Variations

Work length12:56

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Tom Reinders, Herman Vincken, Maurits Bosman, Dmitri Ferschtman
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
David Porcelijn

Andriessen, H: Cello Concertino

Work length10:47

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Michael Müller
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
Thierry Fischer

I. Largo - Allegro ma non troppo

Track length6:15

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II. Allegro con spirito

Track length4:32

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Andriessen, H: Oboe Concertino

Work length13:19

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Henk Swinnen
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
Thierry Fischer

I. Sonata: Allegro

Track length4:57

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II. Aria. Andante

Track length4:02

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III. Fugato a capriccio: Allegro ma non troppo

Track length4:20

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Andriessen, H: Canzona

Work length12:09

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Michael Müller
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
Thierry Fischer

Andriessen, H: Violin Concerto

Work length22:22

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$6.45

Tinta Schmidt von Altenstadt
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
Thierry Fischer

I. Allegro moderato

Track length10:46

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II. Grave e lento

Track length5:44

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III. Allegro vivace

Track length5:52

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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.

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March/April 2022

This is prototypical Andriessen: dignified, eloquent music, conservative in style but richly imaginative in content, draped in silken tones.

Henrik Andriessen: Miroir de Peine, Orchestral Music & Concertos

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