Alex de Taeye & contemporaries

Alex De Taeye

Alex De Taeye (Brussels 1898 - Bergen/Mons 1952) was a Belgian composer, conductor and teacher. His music, with its beautiful colourful instrumentation, springs from the tradition of César Franck and Guillaume Lekeu. In 1927, De Taeye won the prestigious Belgian “Grand Prix de Rome” for composition. In this programme, we place De Taeye’s compelling and ecstatic piano trio, little known in the Netherlands, against Ravel’s world-famous and much-played duo for violin and cello.

The Alex De Taeye Foundation invited the award-winning champions of forgotten Dutch music, cellist Doris Hochscheid and pianist Frans van Ruth, to make an excursion into this Belgian repertoire. They seize this opportunity to play together again with the unsurpassed violinist Jacobien Rozemond.

The programme also includes works for cello and piano and violin and piano by De Taeye and the Inventions by Hendrik Andriessen, a contemporary of De Taeye.

Program

Alex De Taeye - piano trio and duo works

Hendrik Andriessen - inventions for violin and cello

Maurice Ravel - duo for violin and cello