Van Landeghem Chamber Music

Artists Jenny Spanoghe violin Eric Baeten violin Daniel Rubenstein viola Luc Dewez cello Herwig Coryn cello Paul Hermsen piano Jean-Claude Vanden Eynde piano Nino Kompare soprano Works Jan Van Landeghem String Quartet nr. 2 * Piano Trio nr. 1 Piano Trio Nr. 2 “Quand le lune danse” - trio for soprano, violin & piano * World Premiere Recording Label PAVANE Reference ADW7523 More info Total time 63’08’’ Booklet in Nederlands – English - Français Purchase Pavane CD’s benefit from a World Wide distribution.

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About this album /A propos de cet album

A great combination of various chamber music works by inspiring and renowned Belgian composer Jan Van Landeghem.

Un très beau programme avec des œuvres de musique de chambre du compositeur belge Jan Van Landeghem.

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“Jan van Landeghem is a Belgian composer, academic, and organist born in 1954. He’s represented on a couple of other releases, but this is his first one-man show. The music here is bright and approachable, stressing beauty of texture and timbre, and deriving energy from moto perpetuo effects.” “The Second Quartet is the best place to start. Its roots are in Stravinsky, Ravel, and Britten, but the experience of positive stylistic plurality, Europe-wide, seems to have pushed Landeghem closer than those composers, to a diatonic base. At the same time, he makes much expressive capital out of dynamics, some repetition, and from differing string effects.” “All these artists serve the composer well, and each work sounds like the work of the same man. The music is often highly expressive, but it is never gut-wrenchingly emotional.” Paul Ingram - Friday, 23 October 2009