Credits:

Jeroen van Veen

Description:

A collection of deeply meditative and spiritual music. Based on the folk music collected by the philosopher and mystic Gurdjieff during his travels around the world, Hartmann spent about six years perfecting a simple score for performance on a single piano. It is a successful mixture of layers of sound, pauses, and resonances. The deeply moving music consists of about 300 completed small pieces, of which about 170 are included in this collection. Each piece is short and not difficult music, but popular as sacred music with mystery and beauty. The music is performed by Jeroen van Veen, who has also made many recordings on the Brilliant label, mainly of minimal and contemporary music. In recent years, he has gained worldwide acclaim as "a piano player who plays his own music with the utmost eloquence.