Jean Wiéner – Chamber Music - BVHAAST 1201

Recorded live in : The Singer Museum in Laren on March 14, 2001
Recording and editing : Steven Kampmeijer
Piano technique : Albertien de Pater
Cover : Ceseli Josephus Jitta
Design : Lie Good


After his BVHAAST CD with work for piano solo by the French composer Jean Wiéner , a CD with chamber music works by this composer.

‘Listen’ about the CD

Jean Wiéner (1896-1982)

1. Trois dances (1955)
– Java (arranged for violin, cello and piano by Marcel Worms): listen
– Polka
– Tango

2. Suite for violin and piano (1923)
– Détaché et précis
– Très lent
– Gai et très vif

3. Sonata for cello and piano (1968)
l. Lent
2. Largo
3. (without name)

4. Sept petites histoires
(from Marche ‘l’Alphabet Instantané’ by René des Alyscamps)
– Valse (1924)
– Ragtime
– Fantaisie et Fugue
– Etude
– Romance

5. Deux Poèmes de Jean Cocteau (1924)
– Aeronautes
– Souvenirs d’Enfance

6. Trois Blues chantés (1924)

7.’Quatre petites Pièces-Radio ‘for piano (1945-47)
– Histoire de France
– Quatuor
– Polka spring
– Fait divers

8. from: ‘Chantefleurs’ for voice and piano
(poems by Robert Desnos) (1959)
1. Le Gardénia
2. Le Seringa
3. L’Iris
4. Le Bouton d’Or
5. Le Chèvre feuille
6. Le Rénoncule
7. Le Jasmin
8. La Pervenche et la Primevère
9. Le Mimosa
10. La Capucine
11. La Pivoine

9. From ‘Chantefables’ for voice and piano
(poems by Robert Desnos) (1955)
1. Le Zèbre
2. La Coccinelle
3. L’Hippocampe
4. L’Escargot
5. La Chauvesouris
6. Le Léopard
7. La sardine *
8. Le pélican *
9. Le dromadaire *

(* arranged for voice, violin, cello and piano by Eduard Wesly)

Ensemble Wiéner Mélange:

Jeroen de Groot – violin
Taco Kooistra – cello
Ilona Stockfish – mezzo-soprano
Marcel Worms – piano