PREISNER
P IANO MU SIC
JEROEN VAN VEEN PIANO
Zbigniew Preisner b. 1955 Piano Music 10 Easy Pieces for Piano 1. To See More 2. The Art of Flying 3. A Good Morning Melody 4. Meditation 5. Talking to Myself 6. About Passing 7. Farewell 8. A Tune a Day 9. Greetings from Pamalican 10. A Good Night Melody La Double Vie de Véronique 11. Marionettes Aberdeen 12. Aberdeen Damage 13. Main Title
4’34 4’20 5’22 7’05 8’22 6’04 5’21 4’58 9’16 5’44
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Décalogue VI: Tu ne seras pas luxurieux 14. Part 1 2’09 15. Part 2 1’39 16. Part 3 1’13 17. Part 4 3’24 Décalogue IX: Tu ne convoiteras pas la femme d’autrui 18. Part 3 19. Part 13
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La Double Vie de Véronique: Marionettes 20. Tu Viendras 21. Van den Dudenmayer; Concerto in E Minor
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Fairytale: a True Story 22. Fairytale 23. The Coming of the Queen
2’48 4’52
The Secret Garden 24. Main Title 25. Winter Light
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Trois Couleurs Blanc 26. The End (Tango) 27. Morning at the Hotel Trois Couleurs Bleu 28. Olivier’s Theme (Finale) 29. Song for the unification of Europe 30. Van Den Budenmayer Funeral Music 31. The Battle Of Carnival And Lent II
2’25 3’28
32. Second Flute 33. A Chat In The Undergound 34. Home At Last 35. Don't Fall Asleep
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Trois Couleurs Rouge 36. Fashion Show I (Bolero) 37. Finale 38. Do Not Take Another Man’s Wife I
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2’56 Jeroen van Veen piano
2’35
1’47
1’53 2’36 1’30 1’05
Recording: November 2017, Van Veen Productions, Studio II, Pernissimo, Pernis, The Netherlands Produced by: Van Veen Productions for Brilliant Classics Executive Producer: Jeroen van Veen Engineered & Mastered by: Pianomania Software: Pro Tools, Logic & Sequoia Microphones: DPA 4006A, Matched Stereo Pair Piano: Yamaha Grand Piano C7, Piano tuned by Pieter Verhulst Photo Jeroen van Veen: David de Haan Cover photo: Joeri van Veen, Rippen Grand Piano Music published by: Chester Music, Wise Publications p & © 2018 Brilliant Classics
5’51 3’33 2’53
Zbigniew Preisner (born in 1955) is Poland’s leading film music composer and is considered to be one of the most outstanding film composers of his generation. For many years Preisner enjoyed a close collaboration with the director Krzysztof Kieslowski and his scriptwriter Krzysztof Piesiewicz. His scores for Kieslowski’s films No end, Dekalog, The Double Life Of Veronique, Three Colours Blue, Three Colours White and Three Colours Red have brought him international acclaim. Preisner has scored many feature films including Hector Babenco’s At Play In The Fields Of The Lord, Foolish heart, My Hindu Friend, Louis Malle’s Damage, Luis Mandoki’s When A Man Loves A Woman, Agnieszka Holland’s Europa Europa, Olivier Olivier, The Secret Garden, Charles Sturridge’s Fairytale: A True Story, Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All About Love, Jean Becker’s Eliza, Effroyables jardins, Soren KraghJacobsen The Island on Bird Street, Claude Miller’s Un Secret, Max Färberböck’s Anonyma, Kriszta Deak’s Aglaja. Camilo Cavalcante’s The History of Eternity, Mitchell Lichtenstein’s Angelica, Fernando Trueba’s Queen of Spain, Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen’s Valley of Shadows. Requiem for My Friend, Preisner’s first large-scale work specially written for recording and live performance, is dedicated to the memory of Krzysztof Kieslowski. Originally released on Erato Disques (Warner Classics) in October 1998, the work received its world premiere at the Teatr Wielki, Warsaw, on the 1st October 1998. The album has been rereleased on CD and vinyl by Sony Poland. Preisner’s second large-scale work is Silence, Night and Dreams, for orchestra, choir and soloists, based on texts from the Book of Job. The recording features the voice of Teresa Salgueiro (from Madredeus) and was released worldwide on EMI Classics in 2007. The world premiere of the work took place on 4th September 2007 in the Herodion Theatre on the Acropolis in Athens. Other CD releases include 10 Easy Pieces for Piano, Moje Koledy, Preisner’s Voices and Danse Macabre. In 2005, Preisner was commissioned by David Gilmour to arrange nine of songs on his album On An Island for a 40-piece string orchestra. The album was released worldwide in 2006 and Preisner conducted the string section of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra in these arrangements at the concert on Gilmour’s 2006 tour, at the shipyards in Gdansk, Poland. A live recording and film were made of the event and
versions of these have been released in several formats and packages under the title Live In Gdansk. Gilmour and Preisner met again on the occasion of the work on Gilmour’s album Rattle That Lock, released in 2015. Zbigniew Preisner conducted the NFM Orchestra during Gilmour’s concert in Wroclaw in June 2016. A new stage in Preisner’s work began in 2013. At that time Preisner released the album Diaries of Hope which began his close collaboration with Lisa Gerrard. They performed together in Wroclaw, London, Istanbul and Shanghai. They also met several times in the studio, while recoding music for the films Lies We Tell and Valley of Shadows, as well as on stage during the concerts Here and Now (2014), and 2016 Dokad? Preisner records and mixes all his film scores and albums at his own studio in Niepolomice, Poland. His recent works as producer of music include Earthshine, the second album by the post-rock band Tides From Nebula and two albums by the jazz pianist Leszek Mozdzer, Time and Between Us And The Light. Among many awards and citations Preisner received the Silver Bear from the Berlin Film Festival in 1997, two Césars from the French Film Academy – one in 1996 for Jean Becker’s Elisa, and one in 1995 for Three Colours Red – and three consecutive citations as the year’s most outstanding composer of film music in The Los Angeles Critics Association Awards of 1991,1992 and 1993. In October 2008 he was honoured by the International Eurasia Film Festival with an award for his contribution to Cinema and the Arts. In 2016 his music for film The History of Eternity was awarded the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize. In February 2017 he received the Special Award from the Polish Society of Cinematographers for his gift for composing film music that creates deeper understanding and additional dimensions for each story. Preisner also received the Award of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for outstanding achievements in the presentation of Polish Culture abroad, the Officer’s Cross of the Order of the Rebirth of Poland from the President of Poland, and the Gold Medal Gloria Artis from the Polish Minister of Culture. Preisner is a member of the French Film Academy.
Jeroen Van Veen (1969) started playing the piano at the age of 7. He studied at the Utrecht Conservatory with Alwin Bär and Håkon Austbö. In 1993 he passed the Performing Artists’ Exam. Van Veen has played with orchestras conducted by Howard Williams (Adams), Peter Eötvös (Zimmermann), Neal Stulberg (Mozart & Bartok) and Robert Craft (Stravinsky). He has played recitals in Europe, Russia, Canada & the USA. Van Veen attended master classes with Claude Helffer, Roberto Szidon, Ivan Klánsky and Leonid Hambro. He was invited to several festivals; Reder Piano Festival (1988), Festival der Kunsten in Bad Gleichenberg (1992), Wien Modern (1993), Holland Dance Festival (1998, 2010) Lek Art Festival (1996-2007). Van Veen recorded for major Dutch Radio- and Television companies like AVRO, NOS, IKON, NCRV, TROS/Internet, WTBC-TV & Radio (Florida, U.S.A.) and Moscow Television. In 1992, Van Veen recorded his first album as Piano duo Van Veen. In 1995 Piano duo Van Veen made their debut in the United States. They were prizewinners in the prestigious 4th International Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition in Miami, Florida. After this achievement they toured the United States and Canada many times. The documentary “Two Pianos One Passion” (nominated with an Emmy Award 1996) portrays them as a duo. In 2016 Van Veen was awarded with the NPO Radio 4 2016 Award, for his efforts and promotion of classical
music beyond the concert halls. His lie-down (ligconcert) concerts were praised as an example how classical music can attract new audiences. The various compositions by Van Veen may be described as Minimal Music with different faces, Crossovers to Jazz, Blues, Soundscape, Avant-Garde, Techno, Trance and Pop Music. His Minimal Preludes for piano, and his NLXL are some of his most played pieces worldwide. His latest Minimal Piano Concerto Continuum was a great success. In 2015 he premiered his Incanto No.2 in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw with Sandra van Veen. Currently Mr. Van Veen is director of Van Veen Productions, Chairman of the Simeon ten Holt Foundation, Pianomania Foundation and artistic director of several music festivals. He is also active as Overseas Artistic Director in the Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition based in Miami. Over the last 25 years Van Veen recorded more than 160 albums and 5 DVD’s, mostly for Brilliant Classics. His discography includes: Adams, Einaudi, Glass, JacobTV, Minimal Piano Collections, Nyman, Nietzsche, Pärt, Reich, Riley, Stravinsky, Tiersen, Ten Holt, Van Veen, Yiruma and many others. Van Veen is also praised for his productivity some say; ‘the man who records faster than his shadow’. “ Dutch pianist and composer, Jeroen van Veen, the leading exponent of minimalism today”, Alan Swanson (Fanfare) “ Jeroen van Veen has for many years been a powerhouse in the piano world of the Netherlands and beyond”, Dominy Clements (Musicweb-International) “The Maximal Minimalist Missionary”, Raymond Tuttle (Fanfare)
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