Pictures at a Van Gogh Exhibition - Vermes Records 98-01

Recording : Cristofori, Amsterdam, August 25-28, 1998
Recording and editing : Steven Kampmeijer
Music direction : Michel Marang
Piano technique : Albertien de Pater
Design : Identity Design BV, Rotterdam


This CD contains music that is related to the painter Vincent van Gogh
1. Claude Debussy (1872 – 1918) – Nocturne (1892)
2. Richard Wagner (1813-1883) –
Introduction to “Tristan and Isolde” (1854-1859)
(transcription for piano by Zoltan Kocsis)
3. Franz Liszt (1811-1886) – La lugubre gondola – second version (1885)
4. Emmanuel Chabrier (1841 – 1894) – From: Pièces pittoresques (1881)
5. Fré Focke (1919-1989) – Le tombeau de Van Gogh (1951)
6. Erik Satie (1866-1925) – Fantaisie-Valse; False Ballet (1885)
7. Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) – Printemps – Suite for piano (1915-1920)
8. Alexander Skriabin (1872-1915) –
2 Mazurkas op.3; 8 Preludes on 11 (1888-1890)

Listen to a Mazurka from Skrjabin