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2022-12-15 12:00:00
Mike Wheeler listens to Dutch pianist Hannes Minnaar
2022-01-08 11:54:46
We live in a world where nothing has been left untouched by humanity: composer Jan-Peter de Graaff chats about the inspirations for his new cello concerto
[…] written for the soprano Katrien Baerts, who Jan-Peter feels is fearless and can do extreme things with her voice. He describes the music as crazy but serving the drama, and adds that after all conspiracy theorists like to make a noise! The libretto is in English, by Eleanor Barlow, so Jan-Peter hopes that there might be the possibility of the UK premiere. Another new work is his sixth concerto, a piano concerto for pianist Hannes Minnaar. It is being written for a piano luthéal. This is an instrument that Ravel used, a mechanical device that can make a piano sound like a harpsichord. Only one survives, a wooden one in a museum that was created to work with a Pleyel piano of the period. This is in a bad state, and a Dutch maker has made a new one to work with a modern piano. Jan-Peter's new piece will be […]
2021-10-27 00:12:23
Hannes Minnaar brings many positive assets to Bach’s Goldberg Variations. His superb finger independence helps vivify and characterize the contrapuntal writing at any tempo, abetted by varied articulations and imaginative yet discreet use of the sustain pedal. The pianist clearly enjoys modifying voicings, amplifying textures, and shifting accents on the repeats (which he observes in […]
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2021-10-01 08:24:00
Double Review: Johann Sebastian Bach – Goldberg Variations – Alexandra Papastefanou, Hannes Minnaar
[…] da capo, reminiscent of score manipulations done by Wanda Landowska, is lost on me. And although the entire performance is flowing naturally, the transition from the "black pearl" variation to variation No.26 is rough, as if edited in. The recording quality is decent but not great – compared to Papastefanou's previous Bach recordings, the piano sound lost its edge, and in the fast variations sounds a bit muffled. An enjoyable Goldberg Variations nonetheless. Hannes Minnaar showed impressive advocacy for romantic piano transcriptions to Bach, in his "Bach Inspirations" album of 2013, so in this case he is "back to basics" if you will, playing the original score along with a contemporary piece, Daan Manneke's "Gedanken zu Bach". There's a quiet sense of occasion in Minnaar's opening aria and following variations. His ornamentations are more subtle on repeats and although he plays some of the variations faster than Papastefanou, they […]
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