Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven

Claude-Evence Janssens, Kris Belligh, Jean-Philippe Collard Neven, Amôn String Quartet, Adrien Tyberghein – Can it be you that I hear (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 46:30 minutes | 517 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SOOND

For his song collection “Can It Be You That I Hear?”, the Belgian composer and multi-instrumentalist Claude Evence Janssens draws on poems by Anglo-Saxon and American authors of the Victorian era. Thomas Hardy, William Ernest Henley, Thomas Moore, Christina Rossetti, Walt Whitman and others are, like a large part of classical song writing, to be attributed to the Romantic period. Musically, Janssens takes a varied approach. Although the instrumentation of bass voice, piano, string quintet, bass clarinet and trumpet is classical, stylistically the American barbershop style and modern pop song are also touched upon.

(more…)