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Ludus Tonalis

Ivo Janssen

Ludus Tonalis

Format: CD
Label: Globe
UPC: 8711525504400
Catnr: GLO 5044
Release date: 19 August 2002
1 CD
 
Label
Globe
UPC
8711525504400
Catalogue number
GLO 5044
Release date
19 August 2002
Album
Artist(s)
Composer(s)
NL

About the album

De eerste moderne opname van Ludus Tonalis, met een prachtige pianoklank
Ludus Tonalis wordt beschouwd als een van belangrijkste werken van Paul Hindemith. Binnen zijn oeuvre bezit het werk een zelfde soort plek als Die Kunst der Fuge binnen het oeuvre van Johann Sebastian Bach bezit! Ivo Jannsen speelde Ludus Tonalis met veel bijval van zowel het publiek en de critici op zijn recitals in onder andere het Concertgebouw, voordat hij zich aan de opnames van het werk ging wijden. Het resulterende album is zeer belangrijk, omdat het de eerste moderne opname van het werk bevat, met een prachtige pianoklank!

Janssen studeerde onder Jan Wijn, György Szebök en Andrzej Jansinski. Met zijn eerdere albums en concerten, met werken van onder andere Ravel, Chopin, Prokofiev en Brahms, vestigde hij zich al snel als een van de belangrijkste pianisten van zijn generatie. Dit album is opnieuw een interessante bijdrage van een van de geweldige talenten van de jongere generatie van pianisten!

Artist(s)

Ivo Janssen (piano)

Since his debut in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 1988 pianist Ivo Janssen (Venlo, 1963) performs regularly in the Netherlands, and also in Germany, France, Italy, Australia and the USA. He has performed with musicians such as Heinrich Schiff, Nobuko Imai, Han de Vries and Charlotte Margiono. For Globe, Ivo Janssen made a number of recordings including Brahms, Prokofiev, Chopin Preludes op. 28 and Hindemith’s Ludus Tonalis, which the Hindemith Institute considered to be the best recording by far of this work. In 1994 he started a series of concerts which will eventually include performances and recordings of the complete keyboard works by J.S. Bach. In February 1998 the first album in this series was released, on his own label VOID Classics,...
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Since his debut in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 1988 pianist Ivo Janssen (Venlo, 1963) performs regularly in the Netherlands, and also in Germany, France, Italy, Australia and the USA. He has performed with musicians such as Heinrich Schiff, Nobuko Imai, Han de Vries and Charlotte Margiono.
For Globe, Ivo Janssen made a number of recordings including Brahms, Prokofiev, Chopin Preludes op. 28 and Hindemith’s Ludus Tonalis, which the Hindemith Institute considered to be the best recording by far of this work.
In 1994 he started a series of concerts which will eventually include performances and recordings of the complete keyboard works by J.S. Bach. In February 1998 the first album in this series was released, on his own label VOID Classics, which was especially started for this purpose. After recordings of the Goldberg Variations, Toccatas, French and English Suites, Partitas, the Well-tempered Clavier, and much more, the cycle was completed with a recording of The Art of Fugue in January 2007. His toccata! project, that combines Bach’s toccatas with toccatas especially written by a number of contemporary Dutch composers such as Louis Andriessen, Michiel Borstlap, Leo Samama and Christina Viola Oorebeek was received with much enthusiasm, in the Netherlands as well as abroad.
Since 2014 Ivo Janssen plays recitals in Janssenbeton, music below decks, a concert hall built by himself in a concrete ammunition barge in the centre of Amsterdam. However, he has decided to stop performing for the time being in the summer of 2019.

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Composer(s)

Paul Hindemith

Paul Hindemith studied violin at the Dr Hoch's Konservatorium of Frankfurt and played from 1915 to 1923 in the Frankfurt opera. From 1921 to 1929 he played viola in the Amar Quarter, where he was advocate for contemporary music. Throughout the years, he held multiple positions as teachers, but he remained most popular as a violist. During the Second Worldwar he fleed to the USA and was given the American nationality in 1948, Later, he returned to Europe to teach at the university of Zürich. His use rhythm, called 'Motorik' by himself (a combination of Motor and Musik) is piercing, and at times even tormenting. It echoes the arrival of industralisation and the motor, as Hindemith opposes any form of sentimentality, psychology...
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Paul Hindemith studied violin at the Dr Hoch's Konservatorium of Frankfurt and played from 1915 to 1923 in the Frankfurt opera. From 1921 to 1929 he played viola in the Amar Quarter, where he was advocate for contemporary music. Throughout the years, he held multiple positions as teachers, but he remained most popular as a violist. During the Second Worldwar he fleed to the USA and was given the American nationality in 1948, Later, he returned to Europe to teach at the university of Zürich.
His use rhythm, called "Motorik" by himself (a combination of Motor and Musik) is piercing, and at times even tormenting. It echoes the arrival of industralisation and the motor, as Hindemith opposes any form of sentimentality, psychology or personality. This way, Hinemith created shrill, neoclassicistic music (Gebrauchsmusik, music with a social or political aim). His body of works is quite extensive, with more than 100 compositions in all kinds of genres. Even though he was an advocate of contemporary music, he never felt affiliated with dodecaphony. He wrote several theoretic treatises, among which his Unterweisung im Tonsatz from 1937 in which Hindemith offers several systems in which the tension between intervals, harmony and melody is analysed and elevated into a compositional technique.


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01.
Praeludium
03:56
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
02.
Fuga prima in C: Lento
03:26
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
03.
Interludium : Moderato con energico
01:21
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
04.
Fuga secunda in G: Allegro
01:37
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
05.
Interludium: Pastorale, moderato
01:27
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
06.
Fuga tertia in F: Andante
03:03
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
07.
Interludium: Scherzando
01:24
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
08.
Fuga quarta in A: Con energia
03:13
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
09.
Interludium: Vivace
01:13
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
10.
Fuga quinta in E. VivaceInterludium. Moderato: Vivace
01:13
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
11.
Interludium: Moderato
01:01
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
12.
Fuga sexta in Eb. Tranquillo: Tranquillo
02:44
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
13.
Interludium: Marcia
01:54
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
14.
Fuga Septima in Ab.: Moderato
02:01
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
15.
Interludium: Molto Largo
02:22
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
16.
InterludiFuga octava in Dum: Con forza
01:00
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
17.
Interludium: Allegro molto
01:22
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
18.
Fuga nona in Bb: Modeato, scherzando
02:10
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
19.
Interludium Molto: Molto tranquillo
02:40
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
20.
Fuga decima in Db: Allegro moderato, grazioso
02:06
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
21.
Interludium: Allegro pesante
02:09
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
22.
Fuga undecima in B (Canon): Lento
02:26
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
23.
Interludium: Valse
01:53
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
24.
Fuga duodecima in F#: Molto tranquillo
03:22
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
25.
Postludium: largo
04:04
(Paul Hindemith) Ivo Janssen
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