Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden - Pièces égoïstes (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. 2 Pièces, Op. 33: No. 2, Soleil à midi
02. Danse lente, CFF 25
03. Valse-Caprice
04. 7 Koan for Piano : Koan I
05. 7 Koan for Piano: Koan II
06. 7 Koan for Piano: Koan III
07. 7 Koan for Piano: Koan IV
08. 7 Koan for Piano: Koan V
09. 7 Koan for Piano: Koan VI
10. 7 Koan for Piano: Koan VII
11. Morceaux égoïstes: No. 5, Andante Pour moi seul, V. 87
12. Campeador for Piano
13. Nocturne for Piano No. 2, Op. 8
14. Black & White, Op. 40: I. Prélude
15. Black & White, Op. 40: II. Intermezzo
16. Black & White, Op. 40: III. Postlude

Though Belgium in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was known above all for its school of violin-playing, represented by figures such as Henry Vieuxtemps and Eugene Ysaye, it was also home to a flourishing piano school. After independence in 1830, the new nation's conservatoires opened numerous classes, method-books and anthologies proliferated, and piano-makers kept pace with new patents and instruments.
This dynamic environment naturally had an effect on composers; everyone who wrote music wrote for this king of instruments, and promoted the results either by performing them themselves or by confiding them to virtuosos to execute in concerts or competitions. The most famous of these, the Eugene Ysaye Competition (since 1951 the Queen Elisabeth International Competition), opened to pianists in 1938, with Emil Gilels emerging victorious. A quarter of a century later, Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden entered this prestigious contest and, at sixteen years of age, came away with a third prize. Trained at the Brussels Conservatoire by Eduardo del Pueyo, he would go on to an international career still active six decades later. The programme of this CD is an homage to this long lineage of teachers and students. It testifies to the practices as well as the networks of friendship that gave this school, throughout its various ramifications, a particular character.

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