Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917200935
Catalog number: CC 720093
Releasedate: 15-01-27
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917200935
Releasedate: 15-01-27
- More than 25 years of Robin de Raaff in five works
- Time and perspective as the album’s connecting thread
- From Renaissance inspiration to Van Gogh and Dune (the sf-novel series by American writer Frank Herbert)
- Featuring leading Dutch ensembles and musicians
- Including live recordings of Carmina Chromatico and Aeons
- Time and perspective as the album’s connecting thread
- From Renaissance inspiration to Van Gogh and Dune (the sf-novel series by American writer Frank Herbert)
- Featuring leading Dutch ensembles and musicians
- Including live recordings of Carmina Chromatico and Aeons
In Aeons, the colourful and multilayered musical world of Dutch composer Robin de Raaff unfolds across five works written between 1995 and 2021. Ideas of time, perspective and musical layering form a recurring thread throughout the album, while Renaissance polyphony, poetry, music theatre and visual art provide inspiration for music rich in contrast, movement and dramatic expression.
The title work Aeons draws inspiration from Van Gogh’s Les Chaumes de Cordeville in which the boundaries of the canvas are stretched and transformed, which is translated in to a musical play with extreme registers. We follow the painting from the moment of its creation on a journey through time, to the very distant future of the 6th book of Dune by Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune. Here it pops up as a relic of the roots of humanity.
Together with Carmina Chromatico, the playful music theatre of An Introduction…, Piano Trio and De vlucht van de magiër, the album offers a fascinating portrait of De Raaff’s musical imagination spanning more than 25 years.
The title work Aeons draws inspiration from Van Gogh’s Les Chaumes de Cordeville in which the boundaries of the canvas are stretched and transformed, which is translated in to a musical play with extreme registers. We follow the painting from the moment of its creation on a journey through time, to the very distant future of the 6th book of Dune by Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune. Here it pops up as a relic of the roots of humanity.
Together with Carmina Chromatico, the playful music theatre of An Introduction…, Piano Trio and De vlucht van de magiër, the album offers a fascinating portrait of De Raaff’s musical imagination spanning more than 25 years.
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1Carmina Chromatico for chamber ensemble, commissioned by The Orlando FestivalLive11:04
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2An Introduction… a mini miniature music theatre for high soprano and small ensemble09:26
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3Piano Trio10:50
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4De Vlucht van de Magiër for mezzo-soprano, flute, mandoline, guitar and harp12:09
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5Aeons for cello, piano, & percussionLive16:06