Dutch Music

[jerfilm]

Thanks so much, BC for the Brandt-Buys.   I like his music -pleasant and easy to listen to.  I hope others have more of his.

Jerry

[X. Trapnel]

BC--Thanks very much for these; I'd almost given up the idea that I'd ever hear more music by JBB

[semloh]

Some of the many 'unsung' Dutch composers have finally begun to be recognised outside Holland - Gilse, Dopper, Rontgen, Vermeulen, etc etc... all wonderful. Thank you for introducing me to yet another - a real delight.

[X. Trapnel]

Draeseke was Dutch? I had no idea. My favorite Dutch composer is Hendrik Andriessen whose magnificent music is unaccountably overshadowed by that of his rackety son Louis. Leon Orthel is another exceptionally fine composer. I suppose Chandos' Dutch music series is kaput. Nice while it lasted/

[Mark Thomas]

Draeseke was German, born in Coburg.

[semloh]

Whoops - yes, some double-Dutch on my part! Draeseke - a very German composer indeed.

[Mark Thomas]

I've added radio broadcasts of Brandt-Buys' Piano Concerto and his Suite: Poetische Promenade to the Downloads board.

[Mark Thomas]

Sicmu wrote:

Don't mistake it for Mahler's own first!

As you say...

[eschiss1]

Wait, why would I be confusing Pijper and Mahler again? Must be a pun I'm missing... I miss a lot of jokes. (Has Pijper ever been conducted by Noseda?)

[Mark Thomas]

Because it sounds very much like early Mahler, Eric. Actually, it's a very attractive and well put together work. I particularly like the way that Pjiper lulls the listener with all that bucolic, pastoral stuff and then subtly segues to a really impassioned passage almost without one noticing the transition, so you sit up and think "where did that come from?". Very good.

[eschiss1]

... I -really- have to listen to a piece again before making foolish comments; I must have been thinking about later Pijper (which is, - if I remember... - more spare - though I like both...) but again my comments are more informed when I listen apologies.  (Not that Mahler and spare- or "modern"- are contradictory, of course, considering Mahler 7 or 9 or 10, say - but those aren't early.)

[jerfilm]

I didn't take it as foolish at all, Eric.  There really are some Mahlerian-like () phrases in that symphony.  One of my first thoughts as I heard it the first time....

Jerry

[Mark Thomas]

No worries, Eric 

[Amphissa]

I have added four new items to the Dutch Music folder. Two overtures by Johan Wagenaar, and two symphonies by Cornelis Dopper.

[eschiss1]

Re the Dopper, thanks for adding those two works (I especially enjoy the 7th and have different recordings of both of those.)