Jeroen van Veen – Tiersen: Pour Amélie, Piano Music (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jeroen van Veen – Tiersen: Pour Amélie, Piano Music (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:51:16 minutes | 1,91 GB | Genre: Classical
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The maestro of Minimalist piano music has done it again, with an album of gentle melodies and soothing sounds from Yann Tiersen (b.1970) a composer best known outside his native France for the soundtrack to the movie Amélie (2001): the soundtrack sold over 200,000 copies in his homeland, and became Platinum in the US and Germany.

Tiersen’s music helped to make the movie a hit, capturing its bittersweet mix of humour and sadness, and many of the best-known pieces from the soundtrack are included on this new album, such as the Satie-tinged ‘Waltz of Amélie’, but there is much more recent music here which Tiersen wrote in the wake of the film’s success, including extracts from his soundtracks to Goodbye Lenin (2003) and Tabarly (2008), which tells the tragic story of the French sailor Eric Tabarly, who won the Single-Handed Transatlantic Yacht Race twice before drowning in the Irish Sea.

Tiersen’s music is often melancholy and reflective, but there are many lighter and more uptempo numbers on this wide-ranging survey of his output, which is sure to share the popular success of Jeroen van Veen’s many other albums for Brilliant Classics such as his Minimalist Piano Collections (8551 and 9171) and compendiums of Ludovico Einaudi (94910 and 9452), Simeon ten Holt (9434 and 9453) and Jacob ter Veldhuis (94873). ‘The music needs to speak for itself, and that it does, in this consistently enjoyable collection, I have no reservations in recommending to anyone who enjoys minimalism’ (Fanfare).

French composer Yann Tiersen (born 1970) is one of the most popular and successful film music writers of today. His soulful and melancholic music finds its traces in folk music, French chansons, musette waltzes, street music, but also in the minimalism of Satie, Glass and Nyman.

His international breakthrough came with the music for the French blockbuster “Amélie”. Later followed “Goodbey Lenin” and others.

Dutch pianist, pioneer and champion of Minimalism Jeroen van Veen recorded Tiersen’s most popular melodies, playing the piano in his inimitable way: focussed, serene and hypnotising.

A worthy successor of Van Veen’s successful recordings for Brilliant Classics of piano music by Glass, Pärt, Yiruma and many others.

Tracklist:
1-01. Jeroen van Veen – Comptine d`un autre été: l`après midi (02:24)
1-02. Jeroen van Veen – Comptine d’été No. 2 (02:42)
1-03. Jeroen van Veen – Comptine d’été No. 3 (02:32)
1-04. Jeroen van Veen – Le vieux en veut encore (01:40)
1-05. Jeroen van Veen – Toujours la (01:24)
1-06. Jeroen van Veen – Comptine d’été No. 1 (02:22)
1-07. Jeroen van Veen – La piece vide (01:54)
1-08. Jeroen van Veen – La dispute (02:16)
1-09. Jeroen van Veen – Sur le fil (05:15)
1-10. Jeroen van Veen – Les jours heureux (02:20)
1-11. Jeroen van Veen – La chute (06:02)
1-12. Jeroen van Veen – L’absente (03:19)
1-13. Jeroen van Veen – Le retour (01:52)
1-14. Jeroen van Veen – La valse d’Amélie (02:43)
1-15. Jeroen van Veen – Le moulin (03:40)
1-16. Jeroen van Veen – Le matin (02:06)
1-17. Jeroen van Veen – La plage (02:13)
1-18. Jeroen van Veen – Les retrouvailles (02:20)
1-19. Jeroen van Veen – La jetee (01:02)
1-20. Jeroen van Veen – Tabarly (02:46)
1-21. Jeroen van Veen – 8 mmm (02:25)
1-22. Jeroen van Veen – Point Zero (03:06)
2-01. Jeroen van Veen – Summer 78 No. 1 (03:59)
2-02. Jeroen van Veen – Coma (01:58)
2-03. Jeroen van Veen – Childhood No. 1 (01:54)
2-04. Jeroen van Veen – From Prison to Hospital (01:23)
2-05. Jeroen van Veen – Mother (01:42)
2-06. Jeroen van Veen – Watching Lara (01:51)
2-07. Jeroen van Veen – Selling Dishes (00:51)
2-08. Jeroen van Veen – First Rendez-Vous (01:33)
2-09. Jeroen van Veen – The Decant Session (00:53)
2-10. Jeroen van Veen – Lara’s Castle (02:02)
2-11. Jeroen van Veen – The Deutsch Mark is Coming (01:15)
2-12. Jeroen van Veen – I Saw Daddy Today (02:20)
2-13. Jeroen van Veen – Birthday Preparations (01:45)
2-14. Jeroen van Veen – Good Bye Lenin (05:30)
2-15. Jeroen van Veen – Childhood No. 2 (02:44)
2-16. Jeroen van Veen – Letters (01:32)
2-17. Jeroen van Veen – Mother’s Journey (01:33)
2-18. Jeroen van Veen – Preparations for the Last TV Fake (03:12)
2-19. Jeroen van Veen – Mother Will Die (03:30)
2-20. Jeroen van Veen – Father is Late (01:41)
2-21. Jeroen van Veen – Father and Mother (03:29)
2-22. Jeroen van Veen – Finding the Money (01:32)
2-23. Jeroen van Veen – Summer 78 No. 2 (04:24)

Personnel:
Jeroen van Veen, piano

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