Frerichs: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

Release Date: 6th May 2022
Catalogue No: TTK0088
Label: TRPTK
Length: 59 minutes

Rembrandt Frerichs: Piano concerto No. 1

Work length40:01

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Rembrandt Frerichs, Alma Quartet Amsterdam, Dominic Seldis, Vinsent Planjer

I. Textures and registers

Track length3:38

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II. Cadenza I

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III. Bohemia theme

Track length4:55

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IV. Cadenza II

Track length2:47

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V. Elasticity

Track length3:52

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VI. A wind sweeps us through the world

Track length5:36

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VII. Musique au font

Track length9:28

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VIII. Blue pencilled outlines

Track length7:13

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Rembrandt Frerichs: Piano concerto No. 2 "Eternal variating alternations"

Work length19:53

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Rembrandt Frerichs, Alma Quartet Amsterdam, Dominic Seldis, Vinsent Planjer

I. 1st Movement

Track length5:47

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II. 2nd Movement

Track length4:23

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III. 3rd Movement

Track length6:18

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IV. 4th Movement

Track length3:25

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Pianist Rembrandt Frerichs has made a considerable name for himself in the Dutch jazz scene. He makes exciting connections between world music, baroque music and jazz. He introduced the fortepiano in the high-profile production 'The Contemporary Fortepiano' on Just Listen Records. Now, on a modern Steinway, Rembrandt Frerichs has recorded his own Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, in which the orchestral score is composed and the solo piano and percussion parts are improvised. The album is out on April 22 on the TRPTK label.

Frerichs seizes every possible musical adventure with both hands, and it is therefore no wonder that he was commissioned by viola player Michael Gieler of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to write a piece for his 'IJ-Salon serie', a place where one can experiment to one's heart's content and break down musical barriers. Together with the Alma Quartet, double bassist Dominic Seldis and his regular percussionist Vinsent Planjer, Frerichs took an entirely new and unexpected path. He brought the

improvisational element back into classical music, a practice that was common in the time of Mozart and Beethoven. Some composers only wrote out the orchestral score and came up with their solo part during the performance. Frerichs follows that pattern in his first two piano concertos. He uses a 'black page' with prescribed notes for the strings and allows himself to be inspired by the moment from a 'white page' together with percussionist Planjer. The musical imagination is given free rein and because of this unusual starting point, each performance will be different.

Frerichs' piano concertos provide listeners with a freshness and spirit of renewal. We hear a large variety of jazz elements, such as an infectious sense of timing and groove, and the linear improvisation style of the legendary Lennie Tristano.

Frerichs: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

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