Louis Andriessen - Trilogy of the Last Day

Louis Andriessen (1939) Trilogie van de laatste dag : for voices and large ensemble (1996-1997) 1. De Laatste Dag (The Last Day) - 00:00 2. TAO (De Weg) - 26:07 3. Dancing on the bones - 43:12 Tomoko Mukaiyama, piano, koto and voice Ferco Kol, boy soprano children’s choir: De Kickers Ensemble: Asko|Schönberg Conductor: Reinbert de Leeuw Louis Andriessen is a Dutch composer, son of Hendrik Andriessen. After a few youthful works influenced by neo-classicism and serialism in the manner of Boulez he moved steadily away from the postwar European avant garde and towards American minimalism, jazz and Stravinsky. Out of these elements he has developed a musical language marked by extremes of ritual and masquerade, of monumentality and intimacy, of formal rigour and intuitive empiricism. The epitome of the Hague School, he is regarded as the most influential Dutch composer of his generation. Andriessen was born the youngest son of a musical family. His fat