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Tristan Keuris / Various Artists

Label: Quattro Live
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917596021
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Catalog number: QL 200902
Releasedate: 26-12-12
All of the official works of Tristan Keuris (Amersfoort, October 3, 1946 - Amsterdam, December 15, 1996) in one box; fifty compositions from a life that was granted only that many years. Fifty pieces from a composer who for nearly thirty years held a prominent position in Dutch musical life.
  • 11 CD's and a DVD with the complete works of Tristan Keuris: a magnificent musical testament!
  • Keuris was a composer who wrote for musicians, who kept them sitting on the edge of their seats
  • Keuris was a storyteller par excellence
  • Keuris had a reputation in his homeland as one of most important composers of his generation in the Netherlands
  • He was not one to blindly fall in line with the latest fashion, but someone who confidently and passionately pursued a music that was his alone
  • DVD contains a film by Fred van Dijk of the piece ´To Brooklyn Bridge´, made in 1994
11CD’s and 1DVD with the complete compositorian oeuvre of one of Netherlands greatest composers of the twentieth century, Tristan Keuris. This box is reflection of mostly historical concerts and studio recordings of ensembles that played Keuris’ music. Many different player, Radio4, Radio Nederland Wereldomroep, the Muziekcentrum van de Omroep and the NPS worked together on this project and its wonderful realisation. Collection for you, the complete works of a special musician and composers. This special box was handed over to Marion Keuris – widow of the composer – on Sunday 29th of November 2009 in the Muziekgebouw aan het IJ. From the start of the project she was consulted and during the making of the box she was up to date of the development of the project. Marion pointed the compilators of the box to the excellent VPRO-movie, made by fred van Dijk, who documented in 1994 a ‘Imagination’ of Keuris’ To Brooklyn Bridge. The movie is put in as extra in the box.