Hendrik Andriessen : Piano Music
Toccata Classics TOCC0436
* first recording
Jacob Nydegger, piano
1st May 2018
58:33

 

 

 

  1. Fugue in G minor (1916) *
Piano Sonata No. 1 (1934)
  1. I. Allegro
  2. II. Adagio molto espressivo
  3. III. Allegro
  1. Passepied (1942)
  2. Menuet (19454)
  3. Pavane (1937)
  4. The Convex Looking-Glass (1954) *
  5. Ballade (1916)
  6. Serenade (1950)
Piano Sonata No. 2 (1966) *
  1. I. Allegro moderato, poco maestoso
  2. II. Adagio, ma non troppo
  3. III. Allegro vivace e capriccioso
  1. Fugue in G minor (1916) *
Although much of the music of the Dutch composer Hendrik Andriessen (1892–1981) has now been explored in recordings, his works for piano largely remain to be discovered.
This first conspectus of his piano music covers fifty years of composition, showing how early influences – among them Bach, Brahms, Franck, Hindemith and Ravel – were subsumed into a musical language distinguished by its textural clarity and harmonic warmth.