DUTCH PIANIST DANIEL WAYENBERG (1929-2019) VOL. 1 CDR

 

DANIËL ERNEST JOSEPH CAROL (DAAN) WAYENBERG (PARIS, 11 OCTOBER, 1929 – PARIS, 17 SEPTEMBER, 2019)

 

Wayenberg was born in Paris. He was the only child of the Dutch journalist Jaap Wayenberg and the Jewish-Russian violinist Margarete Berson (1894 / 1895-1997) who had met in the Dutch East Indies. A few weeks after his birth, the family moved to The Hague. Wayenberg came into contact with music at a young age. His mother discovered that he had an absolute hearing and decided to give him music lessons. She wanted to teach him how to play the violin, but Wayenberg preferred the piano. He didn’t go to school: he got lessons at home to give his piano talent a chance. First he was taught by his mother, then by Ary Verhaar, Dutch composer, music teacher and pianist in The Hague. After the Second World War he moved to family in Paris to complete his studies with Marguerite Long (1874-1966). Since then he has continued to live in Paris, but he also had his own floor with a family member at home on the Mediterranean. He won first prize in Paris in 1949 at the Marguerite Long – Jacques Thibaud international competition. In 1962 he was awarded the Order of Orange-Nassau for his merits for the Netherlands abroad and in 1967 he received the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres award in France. After his American debut in 1953, at the Carnegie Hall in New York, with the New York Philharmonic led by Dimitri Mitropoulos, Wayenberg made several extensive tours through the United States and Canada. He also made tours in the then Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Scandinavia and Greece. In 1954 he debuted in the Royal Concertgebouw. Wayenberg collaborated with Karl Böhm, Bernard Haitink, Eugen Jochum, Kirill Kondrashin, Rafael Kubelik and Igor Markevich. After 1975, he also became famous in the Netherlands for his jazz concerts with Louis van Dijk, sometimes as a duo, sometimes in a larger context with Tonny Eyk, Pim Jacobs and Pieter van Vollenhoven. In 1985 he was appointed piano teacher at the Rotterdam Conservatory. He continued to work there until his retirement in 1994. Upon his retirement, he received the Erasmus pin from Mayor Bram Peper. In addition to classical music and jazz, he also played a lot of contemporary French music. Wayenberg composed chamber music, piano concerts, the Solstice ballet and the famous Capella symphony. After rediscovering the Lutheran, he wrote the composition “Cadens, Serenade and Toccata” for this instrument. From 2012 to 2018 he often performed with the young pianist Martin Oei. Due to his deteriorating health, he did not perform since and stayed in a care home in the Paris area. In 2017 he got colon cancer.

TRACKLIST

Concerto pour piano No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23 I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso (Tchaikovsky)

Concerto pour piano No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23 II. Andantino semplice (Tchaikovsky)

Concerto pour piano No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23 III. Allegro con fuoco (Tchaikovsky)

Kinderszenen, Op. 15 No. 1, Von fremden Ländern und Menschen (Schumann)

Kinderszenen, Op. 15 No. 2, Kuriose Geschichte (Schumann)

Kinderszenen, Op. 15 No. 3, Hasche-Mann (Schumann)

Kinderszenen, Op. 15 No. 4, Bittendes Kind (Schumann)

Kinderszenen, Op. 15 No. 5, Glückes genugH (Schumann)

Kinderszenen, Op. 15 No. 6, Wichtige Begebenheit (Schumann)

Kinderszenen, Op. 15 No. 7, Träumerei (Schumann)

Kinderszenen, Op. 15 No. 8, Am Kamin (Schumann)

Kinderszenen, Op. 15 No. 9, Ritter vom Steckenpferd (Schumann)

Kinderszenen, Op. 15 No. 10, Fast zu ernst (Schumann)

Kinderszenen, Op. 15 No. 11, Fürchtenmachen (Schumann)

Kinderszenen, Op. 15 No. 12, ind im Einschlummern (Schumann)

Kinderszenen, Op. 15 No. 13, Der Dichter spricht (Schumann)

Kreisleriana, Op. 16 No. 1, Äusserst bewegt (Schumann)

Kreisleriana, Op. 16 No. 2, Sehr innig und nicht zu rasch (Schumann)

Kreisleriana, Op. 16 No. 3, Sehr aufgeregt (Schumann)

Kreisleriana, Op. 16 No. 4, Sehr langsam (Schumann)

Kreisleriana, Op. 16 No. 5, Sehr lebhaft (Schumann)