Concertino for Cello and Orchestra, Concertino for Oboe and String Orchestra, Canzona for Cello and Orchestra, Violin Concerto. Andriessen’s brand of neo-baroque and neo-classical composition is aptly demonstrated in this group of works composed between 1965 and 1970. The oboe pieces is terse yet graceful and melodious, ending with a fugue and the two cello works fuse baroque contrapuntal traditions with romantic musical drama. The concerto is larger in scale but not more inflated in style: in E minor, its model appears to have been Mendelssohn and is one of Andriessen’s most traditionally romantic works.

NM Classics NMC 92066

Re-released July 2021 Brilliant Classics 10532860