De Groot - Hommage: Piano Music
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10259
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 2nd December 2022
Contents
Works
Pezzi (4)Pieces (3)
Preludium
EnCor, a la memoire de monsieur Serge, Francis, Isaac
Preludes (2)
Apparitions
Canzone dolorosa
Canzone in B minor
Cloches dans le matin
Dansflarden
Homenages
Irish Waltz
Oud-Hollandsche Suite
Sonatine in A minor
Suite francaise on Themes of Hogo Godron
Tirage pour trois mains avant-la-garde et avant la lettre
Preludes (5)
Liebestraume (3), S541
Artists
Folke Nauta (piano)Jacob Bogaart (piano)
Works
Pezzi (4)Pieces (3)
Preludium
EnCor, a la memoire de monsieur Serge, Francis, Isaac
Preludes (2)
Apparitions
Canzone dolorosa
Canzone in B minor
Cloches dans le matin
Dansflarden
Homenages
Irish Waltz
Oud-Hollandsche Suite
Sonatine in A minor
Suite francaise on Themes of Hogo Godron
Tirage pour trois mains avant-la-garde et avant la lettre
Preludes (5)
Liebestraume (3), S541
Artists
Folke Nauta (piano)Jacob Bogaart (piano)
About
The name of Cor de Groot (1914-1993) adorned the cover of many LPs of canonic concertos and sonatas throughout the 1950s, when his qualities were summed up in High Fidelity magazine in a review of the first two concertos of Beethoven: ‘De Groot is a solid and sympathetic interpreter in the Central European tradition... His playing impresses with its substance and authority rather than with ostentation and glitter.’
Some (though not yet all) of those recordings have received modern reissues on CD, but his own compositions have received comparatively little attention. An early Sonatina pokes fun at serial technique, before an Old Holland Suite deftly sketches a sequence of 11 Dutch landscapes and portraits. A sequence of five Homenajes documents his fondness for Spain, played here by its dedicatee Jacob Bogaart.
Folke Nauta likewise became a friend and colleague of de Groot, making him an ideal pianist to record the repertoire for left-hand piano which the composer wrote once a long term injury to his right hand had derailed his career at the end of the 1950s. Eastern European influences such as Bartók can be found in most of the seven movements of Apparitions, while a trio of later miniatures such as Cloches dans le matin (1979) makes a virtue of simplicity. Between them, Nauta has made an imaginative selection of music written for de Groot, as a left-handed pianist, by friends and colleagues including Willem, Juuriaan and Louis Andriessen, all receiving their first recordings here.
The collection ends on a note of personal homage and affection with EnCor, which Jacob Bogaart wrote in 2013 as a reminiscence of his improvisation and practice sessions with de Groot. Both pianists contribute substantial essays to the booklet, which is further enhanced by a memoir of the pianist by the curator, musicologist and producer Frits Zwart: ‘I was, of course, impressed by this world-famous pianist,’ he recalls, ‘a very ordinary man in his doings, also in his outward appearance. Nothing about him betrayed the great artist.’
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