CD 1:
onata in a - Burano
Sonata in A - Primavera
Sonata in d - Lacrimosa
Sonata in D - Consolation
Sonata in g - Ground
Sonata in G - Pastorale
Sonata in c - Arioso
Sonata in C - Cascade
Sonata in f - Cantilena
Sonata in F - Saltarella
Sonata in bes - Mahnmal
Sonata in Bes - Epitome

CD 2:
Sonata in es - Wohltemperiert
Sonata in Es - Alla Turca
Sonata in gis - Purple
Sonata in As - Silence
Sonata in cis - Grief
Sonata in Des - Riff
Sonata in fis - Schicksal
Sonata in Ges - Facile
Sonata in b - Sturm und Drang
Sonata in B - Ilo
Sonata in e - O Haupt
Sonata in E - Feofaniya

Piet Jozef Swerts (1960) is one of Belgium’s prime composers of accessible music in the postmodernist vein. On his first Antarctica release, he sets himself the considerable challenge of assembling a largescale piano texture from smaller sonatas without relying on worn-out romantic formats. Following the example of Bach’s Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Swerts writes and plays polyphonic music with a modern twist, taking off with Scarlatti at his jazziest, but also echoing Mozart, Wagner, and Purcell. Framed in the baroque tradition, the new music of Swerts sounds scintillatingly smart, but not cerebral, and his straight strung piano embodies the old-new paradox by fusing modern Steinway comfort with the colour and register versatility of a pianoforte.

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Performed on the revolutionary Straight Strung Piano by Maene.