Etcetera: Wolfgang Wijdeveld — Lieder & Chamber Music (Audio CD)

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Product Details:

• Product Type: Audio CD
• Brand / Label: Etcetera (ET'CETERA)
• Composer: Wolfgang Wijdeveld (1910–1985)
• Performers: Julia Bronkhorst (soprano), Ton Hartsuiker (piano), and friends
• Catalog Number: KTC 1417
• UPC / Barcode: 8711801102870
• Release Year: 2010
• Genre: Classical
• Style: Lieder, chamber music, 20th-century Dutch
• Series: Dutch Composers

Product Features

• Format: CD
• Discs: 1
• Condition: Brand new, factory sealed
• Country of manufacture: Made in the Netherlands
• Booklet: Liner notes in English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch
• Distributed by: Codaex
• Recording: P&C Coda BVBA 2010

Overview

A focused portrait of Wolfgang Wijdeveld, a Dutch composer whose chamber and vocal music sits a little outside the standard 20th-century repertoire — which is exactly the appeal for anyone who collects Dutch art song and rarely-heard chamber works. The program runs from a three-movement Violin Sonata through two sets of South African Songs sung in Afrikaans, a Sonata for two violins, and a closing cycle of Songs on poems by Walt Whitman.

Soprano Julia Bronkhorst carries the vocal music, partnered by pianist Ton Hartsuiker, with a rotating cast of string players filling out the instrumental pieces. The Whitman settings — "Song of the Open Road," "Tears," "Youth, Day, Old Age and Night" — give the disc its emotional center, while the South African songs offer something genuinely unusual on record.

The closing track, "Zondagsminiatuur," is a historical recording featuring Wijdeveld himself at the harmonium, with Nelly Boerée on trumpet and Cees See on percussion — a direct link back to the composer's own hand.

Released on Etcetera in 2010 as part of its Dutch Composers series, with multilingual liner notes that make the songs accessible well beyond a Dutch audience.

Interesting Facts

• Wolfgang Wijdeveld (1910–1985) was a Dutch composer and pianist whose output centered on song and chamber music rather than large orchestral forms.
• The two sets of South African Songs are settings of Afrikaans texts, a repertoire almost never represented on commercial classical recordings.
• Track 19, "Zondagsminiatuur," is a historical archive recording with the composer playing harmonium — a rare document of Wijdeveld performing his own work.
• The Whitman cycle sets English-language poems by the American poet Walt Whitman, drawing on his open-road and life-cycle themes.
• The album was supported by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and the SNS REAAL Fonds, reflecting its role in preserving Dutch musical heritage.

Track Listing

Violin Sonata — Junko Naito, Ton Hartsuiker

1. Allegro precipitoso — 7:52
2. Larghetto — 4:14
3. Presto scherzando — 2:58

South African Songs — Julia Bronkhorst, Ton Hartsuiker

1. Die bloeisel van Jesus — 1:22
2. Offer — 1:27
3. Donderweer — 3:44
4. Seemeeu — 2:05

Stefan en Martijn Blaak

1. Kermesse — 7:41

South African Songs — Julia Bronkhorst, Ton Hartsuiker

1. Vaalvalk — 1:26
2. O dae van my jeug — 2:39
3. My meester — 2:23
4. 'n Sanger — 2:14

Sonata for 2 violins — Birthe Blom, Cécile Gouder de Beauregard, Daniel Kramer

1. Allegro deciso ma non troppo — 5:11
2. Lento — 8:43
3. Allegro molto — 5:36

Songs on poems by Walt Whitman — Julia Bronkhorst, Junko Naito, Guus Jeukendrup, Fleur Bouwer, Jacco Lamfers

1. Song of the Open Road — 5:31
2. Tears — 5:37
3. Youth, Day, Old Age and Night — 1:49
4. Zondagsminiatuur — 4:45

Publishers

Released by Etcetera (ET'CETERA), catalog number KTC 1417, P&C Coda BVBA 2010, made in the Netherlands. Distributed by Codaex.

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