Ludovico Einaudi: Clouds Jeroen van Veen

• Ludovico Einaudi (b. 1955): Stanze:
• 1Einaudi: Stanze: I. Notte02:38
• 2Einaudi: Stanze: II. Calore03:14
• 3Einaudi: Stanze: III. Moto02:46
• 4Einaudi: Stanze: IV. Calmo04:31
• 5Einaudi: Stanze: V. Vega05:47
• 6Einaudi: Stanze: VI. Onda04:05
• 7Einaudi: Stanze: VII. Contatti03:43
• 8Einaudi: Stanze: VIII. Respiro04:07
• 9Einaudi: Stanze: IX. Lento03:50
• 10Einaudi: Stanze: X. Attesa03:32
• 11Einaudi: Stanze: XI. Cadenza03:27
• 12Einaudi: Stanze: XII. Orbite03:08
• 13Einaudi: Stanze: XIII. Moto Perpetuo06:22
• 14Einaudi: Stanze: XIV. Cerchio03:31
• 15Einaudi: Stanze: XV. Ritorno03:04
• 16Einaudi: Stanze: XVI. Notte02:38
• Elements:
• 17Einaudi: Elements: I. Petricor06:15
• 18Einaudi: Elements: II. Night05:36
• 19Einaudi: Elements: III. Drop04:54
• 20Einaudi: Elements: IV. Four Dimensions04:45
• 21Einaudi: Elements: V. Elements06:49
• 22Einaudi: Elements: VI. Whirling Winds04:59
• 23Einaudi: Elements: VII. Twice05:19
• 24Einaudi: Elements: VIII. ABC03:33
• 25Einaudi: Elements: IX. Numbers04:19
• 26Einaudi: Elements: X. Mountain06:10
• 27Einaudi: Elements: XI. Logos06:41
• 28Einaudi: Elements: XII. Song for Gavin03:20
• 29Einaudi: Elements: XIII. Elements for Piano Solo04:03
• Seven Days Walking, Day 1:
• 30Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 1: I .Low Mist Var. 103:11
• 31Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 1: II. Low Mist06:41
• 32Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 1: III. Gravity06:21
• 33Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 1: IV. Matches03:33
• 34Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 1: V. Cold Wind Var. 103:33
• 35Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 1: VI. Golden Butterflies07:24
• 36Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 1: VII. Fox Tracks03:59
• 37Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 1: VIII. A Sense of Symmetry02:32
• 38Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 1: IX. The Path of the Fossils08:52
• 39Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 1: X. Ascent06:23
• 40Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 1: XI. Low Mist Var. 205:48
• 41Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 1: XII. Low Mist Var. 102:45
• Seven Days Walking, Day 2:
• 42Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 2: I. Golden Butterflies Var. 106:46
• 43Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 2: II. Birdsong08:01
• 44Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 2: III. Campfire Var. 106:38
• 45Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 2: IV. Matches Var. 103:29
• 46Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 2: V. Low Mist Var. 203:15
• Seven Days Walking, Day 3:
• 47Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 3: I. Campfire05:47
• 48Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 3: II. View from the Other Side05:01
• 49Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 3: III. Full Moon03:30
• 50Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 3: IV. Cold Wind04:42
• 51Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 4: I. Low Mist Var. 102:40
• 52Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 4: II. Gravity Var. 105:31
• 53Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 4: III. Low Mist Var. 205:20
• 54Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 4: IV. View from the Other Side05:24
• Seven Days Walking, Day 5:
• 55Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 5: I. Matches Var. 103:00
• 56Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 5: II. Campfire Var. 103:36
• 57Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 5: III. Golden Butterflies Var. 103:03
• 58Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 5: IV. Low Mist Var. 104:55
• Seven Days Walking, Day 6:
• 59Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 6: I. Matches05:08
• 60Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 6: II. A Sense of Symmetry04:46
• 61Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 6: III. Cold Wind08:39
• 62Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 6: IV. Low Mist Var. 208:39
• 63Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 6: V. The Path of the Fossils09:59
• Seven Days Walking, Day 7:
• 64Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 7: I. Campfire Var. 106:42
• 65Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 7: II. Cold Wind Var. 103:04
• 66Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 7: III. Golden Butterflies Var. 102:27
• 67Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 7: IV. Low Mist Var. 102:46
• 68Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 7: V. Birdsong06:36
• 69Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 7: VI. Cold Wind Var. 206:50
• 70Einaudi: Seven Days Walking, Day 7: VII. Low Mist Var. 205:52
• Film Music, Pt. 1:
• 71Einaudi: Film Music, Pt. 1: I. Berlin Song04:39
• 72Einaudi: Film Music, Pt. 1: II. Nuvole Bianche07:18
• 73Einaudi: Film Music, Pt. 1: III. Fly05:05
• 74Einaudi: Film Music, Pt. 1: IV. L'origine Nascosta03:32
• 75Einaudi: Film Music, Pt. 1: V. Una Mattina09:03
• 76Einaudi: Film Music, Pt. 1: VI. Writing Poems06:15
• 77Einaudi: Film Music, Pt. 1: VII. Time Lapse05:39
• 78Einaudi: Film Music, Pt. 1: VIII. Ascolta04:31
• 79Einaudi: Film Music, Pt. 1: IX. Experience05:30
• 80Einaudi: Film Music, Pt. 1: X. Run06:11
• 81Einaudi: Film Music, Pt. 1: XI. Walk02:46
• 82Einaudi: Film Music, Pt. 1: XII. Cache Cache04:34
• 83Einaudi: Film Music, Pt. 1: XIII. Dietro Casa03:48
• 84Einaudi: Film Music, Pt. 1: XIV. Ritornare10:50
• Film Music, Pt. 2:
• 85Einaudi: Film Music, Pt. 2: I. Oltremare13:41
• 86Einaudi: Film Music, Pt. 2: II. The Water Diviner06:35
• 87Einaudi: Film Music, Pt. 2: III. Newton's Cradle06:17
• Underwater:
• 88Einaudi: Underwater: I. Luminous04:35
• 89Einaudi: Underwater: II. Rolling like a Ball04:51
• 90Einaudi: Underwater: III. Indian Yellow03:23
• 91Einaudi: Underwater: IV. Flora06:21
• 92Einaudi: Underwater: V. Natural Light06:03
• 93Einaudi: Underwater: VI. Almost June02:45
• 94Einaudi: Underwater: VII. Swordfish04:45
• 95Einaudi: Underwater: VIII. Wind Song03:29
• 96Einaudi: Underwater: IX. Atoms02:38
• 97Einaudi: Underwater: X. Temple White05:13
• 98Einaudi: Underwater: XI. Nobody Knows04:19
• 99Einaudi: Underwater: XII. Underwater04:36
• Total Runtime08:19:26

Info for Ludovico Einaudi: Clouds

Among the best-selling composers of our time, Ludovico Einaudi has won a following of millions through his distinctively calm, smoothly unfolding works, which spin unbroken songs from the simplest material and cast a spell of relaxed enchantment over their audience.

Jeroen van Veen is the Dutch pianist who has likewise won an international following for his many albums of Minimalist piano music on Brilliant Classics, including a previous collection of Einaudi’s music, ‘Waves’ (9452).

‘Clouds’ is another 7CD collection, which ranges across 30 years of Einaudi’s oeuvre, from the Stanze (‘Verses’) of 1992 to the Underwater collection from 2022. In fact, as a relatively early work, Stanze contains intriguing and uncharacteristic elements: as the composer himself explained, ‘I had one goal: to remove, and leave space. The title refers to the poetic stanzas but also to invisible spaces to be inhabited with the mind.’

In 2012, Einaudi produced a project called Elements as a tribute to the memory of his mentor and teacher Luciano Berio. Each instrumental song of Elements evolves from a small gesture or motif, evoking a journey through fragmented thoughts and feelings. In a similar way, but on a much grander scale, the Seven Days Walking project of 2019 developed from a walking tour of the Alps, where Einaudi had the idea of observing and evoking the times of day and moods across the cycle of an entire week. This cycle finds the composer at his most bewitchingly minimalist, drawing in the listener to a space of private reflection.

The Underwater collection thrives on the interplay of pure, sparkling and warm, melancholic sounds and invites you to forget the hustle and bustle of everyday life. The tempo is restful and the pulse flowing even in a seascape such as ‘Swordfish’. Finally, Jeroen van Veen has selected an album’s worth of Einaudi’s prolific work in the world of film, in which his songs often present a mirror to troubled souls and an oasis of calm amid violence.

Ludovico Einaudi’s (b. 1955) minimalist, deceptively simple piano works reach a massive audience well beyond the strict boundaries of traditional classical music. CDs with his music break sales records, the hypnotic calmness of his works being the perfect recipe against modern world’s stress and fatigue. In that sense Einaudi may well become the “Satie of the 21st century”.

Einaudi’s piano works fit in logically with Jeroen van Veen’s survey of Minimalist Piano Music, and this 7-CD set is the successor of Van Veen’s hugely successful set “Waves”, issued in 2013 (Brilliant Classics 9452).

This new set presents works from Einaudi’s most recent compositions: Stanze, Elements, Seven Days Walking, Underwater and film music.

Dutch pianist, pioneer and champion of Minimalism Jeroen van Veen plays the piano in his inimitable way: focused, serene and hypnotizing. Praise for Jeroen van Veen on Brilliant Classics: ‘Van Veen is quite brilliant in the quirky fourth [Philip Glass Etude] and his reading of the exquisite, valedictory 20th is excellent.’ Gramophone. ‘Jeroen van Veen’s recording can stand alongside the best from any source, and this [Arvo Pärt] set is worthy of high praise in every regard.’ MusicWeb International. ‘Van Veen is a supremely eloquent performer of his own music. His touch is remarkably varied, carrying none of the hammered urgency of, for example, Michael Nyman’s performances of Nyman.’ Fanfare.

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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