Nydegger - Hendrik Andriessen: Piano Music

Although much else has now been recorded, the piano music of the Dutch composer Hendrik Andriessen (1892�1981) largely remain to be discovered. This first conspectus of his piano music covers fifty years of composition. It shows how early influences � among them Bach, Brahms, Franck, Hindemith and Ravel � were subsumed into a musical language distinguished by its textural clarity and harmonic warmth. Five of the works in this album are receiving their first recording.