Pièces égoïstes Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden

• Joseph Jongen (1873 - 1953): 2 Pièces, Op. 33:
• 1 Jongen: 2 Pièces, Op. 33: No. 2, Soleil à midi 06:09
• César Franck (1822 - 1890): Danse lente, CFF 25:
• 2 Franck: Danse lente, CFF 25 02:49
• Arthur De Greef (1862 - 1940): Valse-Caprice:
• 3 Greef: Valse-Caprice 06:58
• Michel Lysight (b. 1958): 7 Koan for Piano:
• 4 Lysight: 7 Koan for Piano: Koan I 01:42
• 5 Lysight: 7 Koan for Piano: Koan II 01:30
• 6 Lysight: 7 Koan for Piano: Koan III 02:16
• 7 Lysight: 7 Koan for Piano: Koan IV 01:35
• 8 Lysight: 7 Koan for Piano: Koan V 03:11
• 9 Lysight: 7 Koan for Piano: Koan VI 01:15
• 10 Lysight: 7 Koan for Piano: Koan VII 02:38
• Guillaume Lekeu (1870 - 1894): Pièces égoïstes:
• 11 Lekeu: Pièces égoïstes: No. 5, Andante "Pour moi seul", V. 87 05:23
• Léon Jongen (1884 - 1969): Campeador for Piano:
• 12 Jongen: Campeador for Piano 07:56
• Théo Ysaÿe (1865 - 1918): Nocturne for Piano No. 2, Op. 8:
• 13 Ysaÿe: Nocturne for Piano No. 2, Op. 8 08:59
• Frederik van Rossum (1939 - 2025): Black & White, Op. 40:
• 14 Rossum: Black & White, Op. 40: I. Prélude 02:20
• 15 Rossum: Black & White, Op. 40: II. Intermezzo 06:39
• 16 Rossum: Black & White, Op. 40: III. Postlude 03:44
• Total Runtime 01:05:04

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Though Belgium in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was known above all for it's "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 album 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 it's various ramifications, a particular character.

Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, piano

Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden
was born in Brussels. He begins to play the piano very young and enters the royal academy of music of his birthplace at 12. He works under the direction of Eduardo Del Pueyo until the end of his studies to the Queen Elisabeth musical chapel. Prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth’s contest at 16, he begins then a soloist career that will carry him on all the continents.

Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden played with many symphony orchestras among which: the symphony orchestra of Saint-Pétersbourg, the royal philharmonic of London, the residentie orkest of La Haye and several Belgian orchestras, like the chamber orchestras I Fiamminghi and Franz Liszt (Budapest). Thus he collaborated with prestigious conductors such as Paul Kletzky, Rudolph Barshaï or Yuri Temirkanov.

Press and public are unanimous: “(the work) … finds, under the colorful fingers of the pianist, the finest variations that fascinate with the richness of his detail. (…) real style lesson from the master and virtuoso Vanden Eynden.”

Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden is currently a professor at the Brussels royal conservatoire, the Queen Elisabeth musical Chapel, and is the artistic director of the European piano center Eduardo Del Pueyo.

He also practises the chamber music with partners such as Augustin Dumay, Silvia Marcovici, Michaela Martin, Miriam Fried, Gerard Caussé, Frans Helmerson, José Van Dam, Walter Boeykens, the Enesco quartet, the Melos quartet, the Ysaye quartet…

His repertoire includes in particular almost all of the great concertos, many works of chamber music and the integral piano work of Maurice Ravel.

His discography is very diverse: Grieg and Arthur De Greef concertos (first world recording), Lekeu Sonata for violin and piano (with late the Philippe Hirshorn) and the Brahms sonatas and trio for clarinet with Walter Boeykens (great price of the Caecilia disc).

He is regularly called as jury member to the Queen Elisabeth contest, as other international contests and took part in festivals such as Korsholm (Finland), Umea (Sweden), Prades and Chaise-Dieu (France) and especially Stavelot (Belgium) of which he is artistic consultant since 1987.

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