Swerts - Insight Your Inside: 24 Straight-Strung Piano Sonatas
£15.15
In stock - available for despatch within 1 working day
Despatch Information
This despatch estimate is based on information from both our own stock and the UK supplier's stock.
If ordering multiple items, we will aim to send everything together so the longest despatch estimate will apply to the complete order.
If you would rather receive certain items more quickly, please place them on a separate order.
If any unexpected delays occur, we will keep you informed of progress via email and not allow other items on the order to be held up.
If you would prefer to receive everything together regardless of any delay, please let us know via email.
Pre-orders will be despatched as close as possible to the release date.
Label: Antarctica
Cat No: AR013
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 5th April 2019
Contents
Artists
Piet Jozef Swerts (straight-strung piano)About
Piet Jozef Swerts (b. 1960) is one of Belgium’s prime composers of accessible music in the postmodernist vein. On his first Antarctica release, he sets himself the considerable challenge of assembling a largescale piano texture from smaller sonatas without relying on worn-out romantic formats. Following the example of Bach’s Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Swerts writes and plays polyphonic music with a modern twist, taking off with Scarlatti at his jazziest, but also echoing Mozart, Wagner, and Purcell. Framed in the baroque tradition, the new music of Swerts sounds scintillatingly smart, but not cerebral, and his straight-strung piano embodies the old-new paradox by fusing modern Steinway comfort with the colour and register versatility of a pianoforte.
Swerts is also a conductor and pianist of international acclaim; his substantial catalogue of more than 240 works include stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal and piano works. Since 1982, he is Professor of Composition and Orchestration at the Leuven College of Arts (LUCA), now the Department of Drama and Music associated with the Catholic University of Leuven.
He has been invited as guest professor in the Sweelinck Conservatory, Amsterdam, Netherlands, in the Department of Electronic Music at the University of Huddersfield, UK, the Polytechnic Institute in Castelo Branco, Portugal, as well as in the Polytechnic Institute North Karelia, Conservatory of Joensuu, Finland, and the Conservatory of Barcelona, Spain.
Error on this page? Let us know here
Need more information on this product? Click here