Greg Fenton reviews Review with Joep Beving & Maarten Vos – vision of contentment – LEITER
Pianist Joep Beving and cellist Maarten Vos have created awe-inspiring pieces of music carved out in emotional brilliance, resounding across styles and genre definitions, each cutting straight to the heart of the matter. In the end, it’s simply how it feels that counts, although placed within resolutely modern structures makes this all the more important in time-transcending ways marking all the attributes resilient music should possess.
The piercing, haunting, life-enforcing combinations of piano, cello, and the spaces exercised in between allow for contemplation as they likewise find space for rigorous questioning. That modernity I mentioned before is well represented by A night in Reno as a lone beat defines a contemporary ideal complete with blurred sounds and atmospheres draped around flickering moments. It is timely and beautiful.
Compositions such as The heron seem lost in the loneliness of melancholy and yet signify an uncertain joy in the proceedings touching the heart and filling the head with light. It’s hard to describe just how sublime this all sounds unless you listen for yourself. The final piece, The boat glides through waters with an end in sight. One which is full of promise and reward.
The wonderful cover painting is by Canada’s Alex Coma
Release: July 19
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