Sakamoto: For Mr Lawrence Piano Music Jeroen van Veen

• Ryuichi Sakamoto (b. 1952):
• 1 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence 04:38
• 2 Fountain 02:39
• 3 Solitude Theme 04:32
• 4 Dancing in the Sky 01:13
• 5 Asience-fast Piano 02:35
• 6 The Sheltering Sky Theme 05:13
• 7 Solari 04:08
• 8 Gohatto 04:21
• 9 Yamazaki 2002 03:23
• 10 Ubi 03:35
• 11 Andata 04:45
• 12 Aubade 01:44
• 13 Silk Endroll 05:05
• 14 Koko 04:50
• 15 Mizu no naka no bagatelle 04:24
• 16 Reversing 03:30
• 17 Stepfather 02:31
• 18 Shining Boy & Little Randy 05:55
• 19 Litany 05:32
• 20 The Last Emperor, Version 1 04:53
• 21 The Last Emperor, Version 2 05:45
• 22 Seven Samurai - Ending Theme 05:40
• 23 High Heels Main Theme 04:05
• 24 M.A.Y. In the Backyard 05:16
• 25 Zero Landmine 05:47
• 26 The Revenant- Main Theme 02:05
• 27 Tibetan Dance 04:30
• 28 Behind the Mask 03:24
• 29 Blu 06:32
• 30 Rain 04:15
• 31 The Land Song-Music for Artelligent City 05:15
• 32 Dear Liz 04:02
• 33 Thousand Knives 06:03
• 34 1919 06:28
• 35 Batavia 01:04
• 36 Germination 02:30
• 37 A Hearty Breakfast 01:27
• 38 Before the War 02:02
• 39 The Seed and The Sower 05:22
• 40 A Brief Encounter 04:07
• 41 Ride Ride Ride 02:04
• 42 The Fight 01:38
• 43 Dismissed, Assembly 02:47
• 44 Beyond Reason 01:24
• 45 Sowing the Seed 01:51
• 46 Last Regrets 02:01
• 47 The Seed 01:28
• 48 Tong Poo 05:40
• 49 Happy End 07:44
• 50 Kai Koh 05:39
• 51 Gohatto (2) 03:53
• 52 Dear Liz (2) 04:10
• 53 Castalia 05:21
• 54 Amore 05:42
• 55 Lost Child 04:45
• 56 Opus 05:05
• 57 Sonatine 04:02
• 58 Intermezzo 04:43
• 59 Lorentz and Watson 03:40
• 60 Choral No. 1 02:33
• 61 Choral No. 2 02:23
• 62 Bachata 07:42
• 63 Chanson 03:04
• 64 Distant Echo 06:23
• 65 Aqua 04:31
• 66 Energy Flow 04:28
• 67 Put Your Hands Up 04:58
• 68 Railroad Man 04:10
• 69 Eight Themes of Eight 03:02
• 70 I have to Buy a New Pair of Shoes 02:22
• 71 On the Boat 04:27
• 72 Tamago 2004 02:24
• 73 Before Long 01:40
• 74 Loneliness 01:54
• 75 Perspective 05:31
• 76 Ex Jazz 02:04
• 77 Parolibre 04:55
• 78 Sweet Revenge 03:55
• 79 Tatorso 02:56
• 80 Tango 05:05
• 81 Bibo no Aozora 06:41
• 82 Floating Along 05:48
• 83 A Flower is not a Flower 06:14
• 84 Sayonara 03:20
• 85 High Tide 02:43
• Total Runtime 05:43:55

Info for Sakamoto: For Mr Lawrence Piano Music

A comprehensive collection of Sakamoto’s instrumental songs and film music from a master of Minimalist piano. Famed worldwide as a film composer, Ryiuchi Sakamoto began his career as a pianist, creating patterns, phrases and innovative arrangements before joining his first commercial electronic pop band in 1978, the Yellow Magic Orchestra. Around the same time, he worked on his first solo album, the Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto (1978), which blends up-to-date electronic techniques with an old-fashioned gift for good tunes. Riot in Lagos brought him fame beyond Japan, and he went on to work with many top producers of pop, dance and electro.

In 1983, Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence launched Sakamoto’s career as a film composer, which has gone from strength to strength with scores for The Last Emperor (1987) and The Revenant (2015). All these pieces feature in Jeroen van Veen’s survey, which is based on the best modern edition of these scores and often differs from Sakamoto’s own, partly improvised recordings.

Classical listeners will appreciate Sakamoto’s breadth of reference: to Chopin (Ubi), Bach (Andata, Solari), Glass (Bibo no Aozora), Satie (Opus), Brahms (Intermezzo) and Ravel (Bachata), for example. But his language of minimalist jazz is one enjoyed around the world as music that gives listeners the space to think and work and create for themselves.

‘Van Veen has a lovely, rounded, ringing, almost bell-like sound (highly appropriate for Pärt’s tintinnabuliations) and a wonderful sense of ebb and flow. Never does the music sound rushed in his hands, and more importantly never does it meander and lose its way... This may be the finest collection of his complete piano works available.’ (Fanfare, March/April 2015 on the complete piano music of Arvo Pärt, BC95053)

Jeroen van Veen, piano

Jeroen Van Veen
born 1969 started playing the piano at the age of 7. He studied at the Utrecht Conservatory with Alwin Bär and Håkon Austbö. In 1993 he passed the Performing Artists' Exam. Van Veen has played with orchestras conducted by Howard Williams, Peter Eötvös, Neal Stulberg and Robert Craft. He has played recitals in Austria, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Russia & the USA. Van Veen attended master classes with Claude Helffer, Hans-Peter & Volker Stenzl and Roberto Szidon. He was invited to several festivals; Reder Piano Festival (1988), Festival der Kunsten in Bad Gleichenberg (1992), Wien Modern (1993), Holland Dance Festival (1998) Lek Art Festival (1996-2007). Van Veen recorded for major Dutch Radio- and Television companies like AVRO, NOS, IKON, NCRV, TROS/Internet, WTBC-TV & Radio (Florida, U.S.A.) and Moscow Television. In 1992, Van Veen recorded his first CD with his brother Maarten as the internationally recognized Piano duo Van Veen. In 1995 Piano duo Van Veen made their debut in the United States. They were prizewinners in the prestigious 4th International Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition in Miami, Florida. After this achievement they toured the United States and Canada many times. The documentary "Two Pianos One Passion" (nominated with an Emmy Award 1996) documents them as a duo.

In 1995 Jeroen Van Veen founded the duo Sandra & Jeroen van Veen, a piano duo with Sandra Mol. As such, they mainly perform (minimal) music for multiple pianos by Erik Satie, Douwe Eisenga, Simeon ten Holt and many more. Beside his career as a solo pianist Van Veen also participates in the following ensembles: ‘Piano Ensemble’, ‘The International Piano Quartet’, ‘Piano Mania’, ‘DJ Piano’ and ‘Jeroen van Veen & Friends’.

The various (>80) compositions by Van Veen may be described as ‘Minimal Music’ with different faces, Crossovers to Jazz, Blues, Soundscape, Avant-Garde, Techno, Trance and Pop Music. Currently Mr. Van Veen is director of Van Veen Productions, Chairman of the Simeon ten Holt Foundation, Culemborg Cultural Foundation, Pianomania Foundation and artistic director of several music festivals in Culemborg, Utrecht and Veldhoven. He is active in Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition based in Miami (USA). Over the last 20 years Van Veen recorded more than 100 CDs for several labels Mirasound, Koch, Naxos, Brilliant Classics, and his own label PIANO. The recording of Les Noces for Koch and Naxos was stated in the New York Times as " the best recording ever". Classics Today on Erik Satie pianoworks four hands, 10 artistic quality, 10 sound quality.

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