Alex de Taeye en tijdgenoten
Chamber music by Alex De Taeye, Maurice Ravel en Hendrik Andriessen
Alex De Taeye (Brussels 1898 - Bergen (Mons) 1952) was a Belgian composer, conductor and teacher. His music, with its beautiful colourful instrumentation, wells up from the tradition of César Franck and Guillaume Lekeu. In 1927, De Taeye won the prestigious Belgian “Grand Prix de Rome” for composition. In this programme we place De Taeye's compelling and ecstatic piano trio, little-known in the Netherlands, against Ravel's world-famous and much-played duo for violin and cello.
The Alex De Taeye Foundation invited the award-winning champions of forgotten Dutch music, cellist Doris Hochscheid and pianist Frans van Ruth, to make an excursion into this Belgian repertoire for this concert. They seize this opportunity to play together again with the unsurpassed violinist Jacobien Rozemond.
The program also includes works for cello and piano and violin and piano by De Taeye and the Inventions by Hendrik Andriessen, a contemporary of De Taeye.
Program:
Alex De Taeye - piano trio and duo works
Hendrik Andriessen - inventionen for violin and cello
Maurice Ravel - duo for violin and cello
Jacobien Rozemond, violin
Doris Hochscheid, cello
Frans van Ruth, piano
'Humoresque' by De Taeye, played by Itzak Perlman:
& 'Douleur' for piano trio by other musicians: