Les Apaches Ellen Valkenburg & Maurice Lammerts van Bueren

• Maurice Ravel (1875 -1937): Shéhérazade, M. 41 (Version for Voice & Piano):
• 1 Ravel: Shéhérazade, M. 41 (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 1, Asie 10:17
• 2 Ravel: Shéhérazade, M. 41 (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 2, La flûte enchantée 03:27
• 3 Ravel: Shéhérazade, M. 41 (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 3, L'indifférent 03:57
• Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946): 3 Mélodies:
• 4 Falla: 3 Mélodies: No. 1, Les colombes 02:58
• 5 Falla: 3 Mélodies: No. 2, Chinoiserie 02:58
• 6 Falla: 3 Mélodies: No. 3, Séguidille 02:14
• Déodat de Séverac (1872 - 1921):
• 7 Séverac: À l'aube dans la montagne 04:02
• 8 Séverac: 2 Mélodies nouvelles: No. 1, Chanson pour le petit cheval 04:06
• 9 Séverac: 2 Mélodies nouvelles: No. 2, Les hiboux 03:19
• Maurice Delage (1879 - 1961): 3 Mélodies, Op. 2:
• 10 Delage: 3 Mélodies, Op. 2: No. 1, Intermezzo 04:07
• 11 Delage: 3 Mélodies, Op. 2: No. 2, Améthystes 02:52
• 12 Delage: 3 Mélodies, Op. 2: No. 3, Du livre de Monelle 03:21
• Manuel de Falla: 7 Canciones populares españolas:
• 13 Falla: 7 Canciones populares españolas: No. 1, El paño moruno 01:18
• 14 Falla: 7 Canciones populares españolas: No. 2, Seguidilla murciana 01:31
• 15 Falla: 7 Canciones populares españolas: No. 3, Asturiana 02:40
• 16 Falla: 7 Canciones populares españolas: No. 4, Jota 03:04
• 17 Falla: 7 Canciones populares españolas: No. 5, Nana 01:43
• 18 Falla: 7 Canciones populares españolas: No. 6, Canción 01:11
• 19 Falla: 7 Canciones populares españolas: No. 7, Polo 01:35
• Manuel de Falla:
• 20 Falla: Oración de las madres que tienen sus hijos en sus brazos 02:09
• Total Runtime 01:02:49

Info for Les Apaches

Paris, around 1900. A group of friends regularly meet to share their passion for art. However most of them are artists, even an aviator and a priest join the group. They gather weekly at Paul Sordes’ apartment on the 5th floor of the ‘Villa du Phénix”, Rue du Long, where they make music, recite their poems and discuss art until the middle of the night.

‘Les Apaches” they call themselves after a notorious Parisian gang, prowling around the district. Word has it that the group of friends rumble the streets in an ecstatic mood after visiting the theatre, when they completely overlook a paperboy. A collision follows and the boy shouts: ”Attention Les Apaches!”. The friends, who regard themselves as artistic outcasts, adopt the name immediately.

The group exists of, amongst others, composers such as Maurice Ravel, Déodat de Séverac, Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Delage and Manuel de Falla, pianist Ricardo Viñes, poet Tristan Klingsor and painter Paul Sordes. They advise each other, listen to each other’s work and help each other copying orchestral parts. They admire Chinese art, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Cézanne, Van Gogh and the Russians.

Ellen Valkenburg, soprano
Maurice Lammerts van Bueren, piano

Maurice Lammerts van Bueren
The Dutch pianist, Maurice Lammerts van Bueren, studied under Jan Wijn (solo) and Ludmilla Baslawskaja (chamber music) at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. As a lieder accompanist, he had lessons with Rudolf Jansen and Graham Johnson et al.Maurice Lammerts van Bueren has devoted his career completely to the accompaniment of singers. He performed with vocalists such as Angelika Kirchschlager, Lilian Farahani, Ellen Valkenburg, Henk Neven, Robert Holl, Minho Jeong, Thomas Oliemans, Florieke Beelen, Ekaterina Levental, Esther Kuiper, Sven Weyens, Marcel Reijans, Aldona Bartnik, Henriette Feith, Karolina Hartman and Hans Pieter Herman. Future plans bring new collaborations with the French soprano Myriam Arbouz and the Estonian soprano Maria Valdmaa, amongst others. He is the founder and pianist of the Coco Collectief, a vocal ensemble that focuses on art-song.

Before he focused completely on accompanying vocalists, Maurice Lammerts van Bueren also performed regularly as a chamber musician. As the pianist of Trio Suleika (2001-2014), he won the Kersjes Award, Holland’s most prestigious chamber music award, and the Vriendenkrans, awarded by the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. He has been working with artists such as the violinists Frederieke Saeijs, Theo Olof, Herman Krebbers and members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. His concerts took him to Belgium, Germany, France, Poland, Sweden, Slovenia, Taiwan, Trinidad, Syria and the USA.

He recorded several CD’s with artists and ensembles such as: Angelika Kirchschlager, Trio Suleika, violinist Frederieke Saeijs, mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Levental and the Coco Collectief. In 2018/2019 four new CD’s were released: with mezzo-soprano Florieke Beelen and baritone Hans Pieter Herman (Schumann’s complete Myrten); with soprano Aldona Bartnik (Polish songs and mazurkas by Chopin, Paderewski and Szymanowski); songs from Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn with mezzo-soprano Esther Kuiper and baritone Sven Weyens and the music/photography-production WOMAN - the making of… with soprano Lilian Farahani. The latter received the label 'Critic's choice' in the leading magazine Opera News. In januari 2021 the CD 'Les Apaches' with soprano Ellen Valkenburg will be released at the label Zefir Records.

Maurice Lammerts van Bueren is a Steinway Artist since 2008. As a coach he works at the singing department of the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague.

Besides his passion for music, Maurice Lammerts van Bueren is an animated portrait photographer, he regularly shoots portraits of artists and musicians.

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