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Evensong

Eric Vloeimans / The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra / Jurjen Hempel

Evensong

Format: SACD hybrid
Label: Challenge Classics
UPC: 0608917258226
Catnr: CC 72582
Release date: 15 March 2013
1 SACD hybrid
 
Label
Challenge Classics
UPC
0608917258226
Catalogue number
CC 72582
Release date
15 March 2013

""Evensong is a great CD, created for music lovers of all ages and all denominations""

Luister, 03-10-2013
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About the album

This album is a unique collaboration between Eric Vloeimans and a full scale classical orchestra. Together with the orchestra and conductor Jurjen Hempel, Vloeimans strikes a bridge between many different styles, from classical to jazz, from western to eastern.

The principle work on this album is in fact Vloeimans’ very own trumpet concerto, Evensong in four movements which he wrote in collaboration with composer and arranger Martin Fondse. The piece Lex was written as the film score to the film Auditie/Audition (2011) an animation film about Lex van Weeren (1920-1996), a Jewish trumpet player and orchestra conductor who survived Auschwitz because he became the camp orchestra conductor and trumpet player in the camp orchestra. Waterfront was written for an open air concert at the Kralingse Plas lake and was in fact inspired by the music Leonard Bernstein wrote for the Oscar award winning film On the Waterfront. It has all the elements we expect from a film score: a long opening shot, introduction of the main character, suspense and high-energy action scene, to wind up with the finale: the title song. About the piece Requiem, Vloeimans states: I had no firm plans to write a classical requiem. Nothing serious had happened in my life that would call for an elegy. But magic went its own way, and things happened as they did: the composition ultimately wrote itself and became this Requiem. Your Majesty is a piece originally written for the film Majesteit, a film about the Dutch queen Beatrix, that wound up not being used in the film. I later recorded this piece in a rock version with Kytecrash and played it with the band of the Dutch Royal Marines in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Eric Vloeimans slaat elegante, virtuoze en inventieve bruggen tussen vele genres
De vermaarde jazztrompettist Eric Vloeimans bracht dit album, met zijn eigen gecomponeerde trompetconcert Evensong, uit op zijn 50e verjaardag. Zijn inventieve, virtuoze en elegante trompetspel vormt hierop een mooie combinatie met het Orkest van het Oosten. Samen met dirigent Jurjen Hempel worden bruggen geslagen tussen klassiek, jazz en westers en oosters klinkende muziek.

Naast Evensong bevat dit album de stukken Lex, Waterfront, Requiem en Your Majesty. Lex werd geschreven voor de film Auditie, over een joodse trompettist en dirigent die Auschwitz overleefde door in het kamporkest te spelen. Het stuk Waterfront is geïnspireerd op de soundtrack die Leonard Bernstein maakte voor On the Waterfront en het heeft alle aspecten van een soundtrack. Vloeimans zegt over Requiem dat hij geen plannen had een klassiek requiem te schrijven, maar dat het op een magische manier toch gebeurde. Your Majesty werd gecomponeerd voor de film Majesteit over koningin Beatrix, maar werd uiteindelijk niet in de film gebruikt. Later nam Vloeimans dat werk op met Kytecrash en speelde hij het in het Concertgebouw met de band van het Nederlands Korps Mariniers.
Ausdrucksstarke Werke für Trompete, die die üblichen Grenzen der klassischen Musik ausdehnen und bereichern.

Zu seinem 50. Geburtstag im März 2013 macht sich der Trompeter Eric Vloemans mit dieser Einspielung ein ganz besonderes Geschenk. Obwohl Vloemans im Wesentlichen als Jazz-Musiker auftritt, sieht er sich nicht nur in dieser Musik aufgehoben. Als klassisch ausgebildeter Trompeter und für viele Strömungen offener Interpret, komponierte er in Zusammenarbeit mit Martin Fondse ein Trompetenkonzert. Die Ersteinspielung dieses Werkes gemeinsam mit dem Netherlands Symphony Orchestra unter der Leitung von Jurjen Hempel wird ergänzt durch weitere Werke Vloemans sowie seines Freundes und Komponistenkollegen Martin Fondse. Die Werke des niederländischen Jazzers gelten als individuell, humorvoll und ausdrucksstark.

Artist(s)

Eric Vloeimans

Eric Vloeimans (Huizen, 1963) is an improvising trumpeter and composer who regards the term ‘jazz’ as too limiting to describe his music. His work is characterized by melodic and lyrical power, and a distinctive, individual sound that is called velvety or whispering in the more subdued pieces. From 2006/2007 Eric Vloeimans has been active with two much-praised formations: the chamber jazz trio Fugimundi (Anton Goudsmit guitar, Harmen Fraanje piano) and the electric band Gatecrash, in which rock and funk elements can be traced (Jeroen van Vliet keyboards, Gulli Gudmundsson bass, Jasper van Hulten drums). With the latter group, he employs electronic effects in his trumpet playing for the first time. In addition, he continues to develop other projects, such as the band...
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Eric Vloeimans (Huizen, 1963) is an improvising trumpeter and composer who regards the term ‘jazz’ as too limiting to describe his music. His work is characterized by melodic and lyrical power, and a distinctive, individual sound that is called velvety or whispering in the more subdued pieces.
From 2006/2007 Eric Vloeimans has been active with two much-praised formations: the chamber jazz trio Fugimundi (Anton Goudsmit guitar, Harmen Fraanje piano) and the electric band Gatecrash, in which rock and funk elements can be traced (Jeroen van Vliet keyboards, Gulli Gudmundsson bass, Jasper van Hulten drums). With the latter group, he employs electronic effects in his trumpet playing for the first time.
In addition, he continues to develop other projects, such as the band Oliver’s Cinema with accordion player Tuur Florizoone and cellist Jörg Brinkmann (CD available from August 2013, and a US tour in October 2014)) , and a duo with pianist Florian Weber, with a CD release : Live at the Concertgebouw in 2011.
His broad range of interests has led Vloeimans to collaborate with artists from other musical worlds. In the pop music area, these include Fay Lovsky, Doe Maar, Spinvis, Jan Akkerman and trumpeter Kyteman (Colin Benders). Where world music is concerned, Vloeimans was involved in projects with flamenco guitarist Eric Vaarzon Morel, Latin pianist Ramon Valle, and the fado-inspired Pessoa of Fernando Lameirinhas.
Vloeimans has performed as a soloist with classical ensembles such as the Matangi Quartet, the Calefax Reed Quintet, the Metropole Orchestra, the Gelderland Orchestra, the Limburg Symphony Orchestra, the Holland Baroque Society, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
2011 saw the premiere of his first trumpet concerto, Evensong, with the Limburg Symphony Orchestra, orchestrated by Martin Fondse, and recorded for CD with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra.
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The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra

The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra is based in Enschede, in the province of Overijssel. Performing at an international level, as evidenced by its highly acclaimed CDs and invitations for international tours, the orchestra is firmly rooted in society. Jan Willem de Vriend has been its artistic director and chief conductor since 2006. He will be succeeded by Ed Spanjaard in 2017. Under De Vriend’s leadership, the orchestra has expanded its repertoire to cover music from four centuries. Its use of period instruments in the Classical repertoire gives the orchestra a distinctive and highly individual character. The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra performs amongst others in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Enschede, Zwolle and Deventer. In addition, it has made successful tours of the United States, Spain and...
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The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra is based in Enschede, in the province of Overijssel. Performing at an international level, as evidenced by its highly acclaimed CDs and invitations for international tours, the orchestra is firmly rooted in society.
Jan Willem de Vriend has been its artistic director and chief conductor since 2006. He will be succeeded by Ed Spanjaard in 2017. Under De Vriend’s leadership, the orchestra has expanded its repertoire to cover music from four centuries. Its use of period instruments in the Classical repertoire gives the orchestra a distinctive and highly individual character.
The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra performs amongst others in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Enschede, Zwolle and Deventer. In addition, it has made successful tours of the United States, Spain and England and it often works with the Dutch National Touring Opera Company. In its home town Enschede, the orchestra builds on a symphonic tradition of more than 80 years, and it is known as one of the most modern and entrepreneurial orchestras in the Netherlands.
The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra created a number of ensembles, such as a chamber orchestra, the Baroque Academy of the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra (BANSO) and various chamber music ensembles. The orchestra’s commitment to expanding its social relevance is also reflected in the large number of projects in which education is a key element.
The orchestra has worked with distinguished conductors, such as its former chief conductor Jaap van Zweden, Vasily Petrenko, Edo de Waart, Claus Peter Flor and Tan Dun. It also has accompanied many celebrated soloists, including Gidon Kremer, Ronald Brautigam, Natalia Gutman, Charlotte Margiono, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Thomas Zehetmair.

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Jurjen Hempel (conductor)

Composer(s)

Eric Vloeimans

Eric Vloeimans (Huizen, 1963) is an improvising trumpeter and composer who regards the term ‘jazz’ as too limiting to describe his music. His work is characterized by melodic and lyrical power, and a distinctive, individual sound that is called velvety or whispering in the more subdued pieces. From 2006/2007 Eric Vloeimans has been active with two much-praised formations: the chamber jazz trio Fugimundi (Anton Goudsmit guitar, Harmen Fraanje piano) and the electric band Gatecrash, in which rock and funk elements can be traced (Jeroen van Vliet keyboards, Gulli Gudmundsson bass, Jasper van Hulten drums). With the latter group, he employs electronic effects in his trumpet playing for the first time. In addition, he continues to develop other projects, such as the band...
more
Eric Vloeimans (Huizen, 1963) is an improvising trumpeter and composer who regards the term ‘jazz’ as too limiting to describe his music. His work is characterized by melodic and lyrical power, and a distinctive, individual sound that is called velvety or whispering in the more subdued pieces.
From 2006/2007 Eric Vloeimans has been active with two much-praised formations: the chamber jazz trio Fugimundi (Anton Goudsmit guitar, Harmen Fraanje piano) and the electric band Gatecrash, in which rock and funk elements can be traced (Jeroen van Vliet keyboards, Gulli Gudmundsson bass, Jasper van Hulten drums). With the latter group, he employs electronic effects in his trumpet playing for the first time.
In addition, he continues to develop other projects, such as the band Oliver’s Cinema with accordion player Tuur Florizoone and cellist Jörg Brinkmann (CD available from August 2013, and a US tour in October 2014)) , and a duo with pianist Florian Weber, with a CD release : Live at the Concertgebouw in 2011.
His broad range of interests has led Vloeimans to collaborate with artists from other musical worlds. In the pop music area, these include Fay Lovsky, Doe Maar, Spinvis, Jan Akkerman and trumpeter Kyteman (Colin Benders). Where world music is concerned, Vloeimans was involved in projects with flamenco guitarist Eric Vaarzon Morel, Latin pianist Ramon Valle, and the fado-inspired Pessoa of Fernando Lameirinhas.
Vloeimans has performed as a soloist with classical ensembles such as the Matangi Quartet, the Calefax Reed Quintet, the Metropole Orchestra, the Gelderland Orchestra, the Limburg Symphony Orchestra, the Holland Baroque Society, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
2011 saw the premiere of his first trumpet concerto, Evensong, with the Limburg Symphony Orchestra, orchestrated by Martin Fondse, and recorded for CD with the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra.
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Press

"Evensong is a great CD, created for music lovers of all ages and all denominations"
Luister, 03-10-2013

Wide musical framework underlies an album that is unique in its kind. Evensong is a great and compelling masterpiece.
Altcountryforum, 12-8-2013

"As in his four-part Evensong, this is a voluminous and enchanting masterpiece that changes from classical to jazz with excitement"  
NRC Weekend, 16-7-2013

This company came up with a record that can be count as one of Vloeimans best albums.
De Gelderlander, 06-7-2013

Evensong is musically convincing, from the beginning until the end
Nederlands Dagblad, 28-6-2013

Evensong is another album poised on the increasingly blurred cusp of classical and jazz.
The Independent, 24-5-2013

"Capitalising on his breathy timbre – almost more woodwind than brass – the four-part title-track blends weary, late-night trumpet lines with woozily lowing, Arabic-flavoured horns and strings, before acquiring an urban bustle akin to Bernstein in the climactic third movement"
Challenge Classics, 24-5-2013

"Eric Vloeimans Plays with a liberated trumpet"
Avro's Opium, 11-5-2013

It is a small miracle of well-balanced beauty. Vloeimans' unparalleled velvet and sometimes whispering trumpet playing on this album is also regularly interspersed with fierce lashes and solid raw patches that just make it even more exciting.
Moors Magazine, 06-5-2013

Evensong is one heck of a CD, created for music adepts of all ages and all denominations.
Opus Klassiek, 01-5-2013

This just might be Vloeimans' Magnum Opus.
Jazzism, 01-5-2013

Eric Vloeimans dares to think big; his distinctive trumpet sounds transferred to a full-blown orchestra recording.
De Volkskrant, 24-4-2013

Everything alchemist Eric Vloeimans touches turns to gold. Electric, acoustic, classical, modern, he does it with ease.
Jazzenzo, 19-4-2013

A voluminous and enchanting masterpiece that fans out from classical music with sophisticated strings and pompous brass themese to exciting and suspensfull jazz parts.
NRC, 18-4-2013

You can hear the compassion, warmth and memories in Vloeimans' solos. Just for this beauty, it's a CD worth buying. 
JazzFlits, 08-4-2013

The composition 'Evensong', in four movements, is a wonder of balanced beauty. ... a gem of an album!
Moorsmagazine

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01.
Evensong: Movement 1
11:17
(Eric Vloeimans) Eric Vloeimans, Hans Vroomans, Jeroen Vierdag, Dirk-Peter Kölsch, The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
02.
Evensong: Movement 2
03:48
(Martin Fondse, Eric Vloeimans) Eric Vloeimans, Dirk-Peter Kölsch, Jeroen Vierdag, Hans Vroomans, The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
03.
Evensong: Movement 3
07:47
(Eric Vloeimans, Martin Fondse) Eric Vloeimans, Hans Vroomans, Jeroen Vierdag, Dirk-Peter Kölsch, The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
04.
Evensong: Movement 4
02:08
(Eric Vloeimans, Martin Fondse) Eric Vloeimans, Hans Vroomans, Jeroen Vierdag, Dirk-Peter Kölsch, The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
05.
Lex
04:59
(Eric Vloeimans) Eric Vloeimans, Hans Vroomans, Jeroen Vierdag, Dirk-Peter Kölsch, The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
06.
Waterfront: Introduction
03:50
(Martin Fondse) Eric Vloeimans, The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
07.
Waterfront: Movement 1
04:09
(Martin Fondse) Eric Vloeimans, The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
08.
Waterfront: Movement 2
03:44
(Martin Fondse) Eric Vloeimans, The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
09.
Waterfront: Movement 3
02:20
(Martin Fondse) Eric Vloeimans, The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
10.
Waterfront: Final
04:01
(Martin Fondse) Eric Vloeimans, The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
11.
Requiem
06:01
(Eric Vloeimans) Eric Vloeimans, Hans Vroomans, Jeroen Vierdag, Dirk-Peter Kölsch, The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
12.
Your Majesty
07:14
(Eric Vloeimans) Eric Vloeimans, Hans Vroomans, Jeroen Vierdag, Dirk-Peter Kölsch, The Netherlands Symphony Orchestra
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Videos

Eric Vloeimans - My own king am I (at Pauw & Witteman)

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