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An album with fascinatingly beautiful piano music in nocturnal atmospheres. Nox means night in Latin. Nox is also the title of a composition by the Dutch composer Robert Zuidam. He composed his first large-scale work for piano solo especially for pianist Hannes Lover. The five-part work is an ode by a night person to his creative hours. Different aspects of darkness take musical form: the nocturnal… silence, restless insomnia, melancholy, the fascinating rain of stars. Exception is the in memoriam for conductor, pianist and composer Reinbert de Leeuw, who died in February 2020. Lover feels Zuidam's intentions perfectly and plays the parts with great ease and spontaneity. For this album, Lover chose to complement Nox with music by Robert Schumann and Maurice Ravel; the Nachtstücke by Schumann, which perfectly matches the nocturnal theme, and the dark piano cycle Gaspard De La Nuit by Ravel. Ravel's Gaspard is a colourful keyboard show with a mixture of deep seriousness and elusive mockery. (SvdP)more
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