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The architecture of Venezia knows a suggestive
time-continuum.
As if the style forms a flowing, streaming, Canale
through different centuries.
Façade de
Palazzo gives shape to this in a musical way. In contact with
music of the early and late 19th century, it opens that period to our own, more physical and motorial time. This
results in a slow motion experiencing of time and a warm motorial strength.
The interior of some of Venezia’s enormous Renaissance
Palazzi is designed in specific harmonical proportions in which the rich wall
paintings and the incidence of light play their role. Intérieur de Palazzo gives
the three-dimensionality and the rich colouring a meaning of their own in time
and music.
Carnaval
d’Arlequin: The Venetian Carnival takes place in February, when it
is humid in Venice; hazy and misty which gives the whole a characteristic
atmosphere. A mixture of melancholy and cheerfulness. Of a mysterious, warm
glow and darkness. A swirl of feast and silence in beauty, which enchants the
participants. In this setting a dance of Arlequino, through the alleys and
piazzas of nocturnal Venezia.
Venezia (compilation
CD)
Piano music composed and performed by Barend Wolter
Schipper.
1: Façade de Palazzo 6:54 min.
2: Intérieur de Palazzo 7:03
min.
3: Carnaval
d’Arlequin 9:58
min.
Total time: 24:05 min.
Venezia is a compilation of three works from different
concerts. All concerts were recorded live.
Façade de
Palazzo was recorded in the Grand Piano hall of Albert Hahn in
September 1999 by AE audio productions.
Intérieur de
Palazzo was recorded in the Lutherian Church in Groningen, in
May 2000 by ASN Studios.
Carnaval
d’Arlequin was recorded in the Lutherian Church in Groningen, in May
2000 by ASN Studios.
Cover: front: Piazetta of San Marco towards the Island
of San Giorgio Maggiore
with
the Base of the Campanile (fragment); by Francesco Guardi
back: The dancer Vaclav Nijinski in ‘le
Carnaval’.