{"product_id":"980827","title":"Piet Jozef Swerts - Insight Your Inside: 24 Straight Strung Piano Sonatas [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe world premiere recording of new Flemish modern romantic piano music by Piet Jozef Swerts, written for a new Flemish piano, played by the composer and performed on the revolutionary straight strung piano by Maene.  \\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePiet Jozef Swerts (b. 1960) is one of Belgium's prime composers of accessible music in the postmodernist vein. On his first Antarctica release, he sets himself the considerable challenge of assembling a largescale piano texture from smaller sonatas without relying on worn-out romantic formats. Following the example of Bach's Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Swerts writes and plays polyphonic music with a modern twist, taking off with Scarlatti at his jazziest, but also echoing Mozart, Wagner, and Purcell. Framed in the baroque tradition, the new music of Swerts sounds scintillatingly smart, but not cerebral, and his straight strung piano embodies the old-new paradox by fusing modern Steinway comfort with the colour and register versatility of a pianoforte. \\r\u003cbr\u003e\\r\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwerts is also a conductor and pianist of international acclaim; his substantial catalogue of more than 240 works include stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal and piano works.  Since 1982, he is Professor of Composition and Orchestration at the Leuven College of Arts (LUCA), now the Department of Drama and Music associated with the Catholic University of Leuven. He has been invited as guest professor in the Sweelinck Conservatory, Amsterdam, Netherlands, in the Department of Electronic Music at the University of Huddersfield, GB, the Polytechnic Institute in Castelo Branco, Portugal, as well as in the Polytechnic Institute North Karelia, Conservatory of Joensuu, Finland, and the Conservatory of Barcelona, Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in a: Burano\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in es: Wohltemperiert\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in A: Primavera\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in Es: Alla Turca\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in d: Lacrimosa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in gis: Purple\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in D: Consolation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in As: Silence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in g: Ground\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in cis: Grief\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in G: Pastorale\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in Des: Riff\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in c: Arioso\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in fis: Schicksal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in C: Cascade\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in Ges: Facile\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in f: Cantilena\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in b: Sturm und Drang\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in F: Saltarella\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in B: Ilo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in bes: Mahnmal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in e: O Haupt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in Bes: Epitome\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonata in E: Feofaniya\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55136549601665,"sku":"980827","price":20.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/413y-q2WcnL._SL1500.jpg?v=1767213032","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/980827","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}