In these ‘special times’- feeling anno 2024 - Wim Mertens investigates different kinds, series and ranges of the notion of ‘robustness’ in his new opus Ranges of Robustness.
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Wim Mertens presents his new album Ranges of Robustness. In these ‘special times’- feeling anno 2024 - Wim Mertens investigates different kinds, series and ranges of the notion of ‘robustness’ in his new opus Ranges of Robustness. In only 9 compositions all (or at least many) ranges are presented ‘in a way our epoch demands’, in the words of the composer. His 21-musician ensemble calls on all the musical colors: woodwinds, a special attention to the saxophone section (soprano-, alto-, tenor- and baritone sax), brass, strings and a full rhythm section with acoustic and electric guitars, multiple harps, percussion and the composer himself on the piano. This extended, contemporary quasi-symphonic approach is needed according to Mertens as an answer to the challenges of the ranges of robustness as we experience them today. With the song Marina’s Music, Mertens, a long-time admirer of her work, offers an ‘homage’ to the Russian poet Marina Tsetajeva (1892-1941). She functions like a central character - that is lost in a way - among these overwhelming Ranges of Robustness. P & © 2024 WimMertensMusic.
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New album RANGES OF ROBUSTNESS - Out June 7th!
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The composition Voice of the Living is told from the point of view of 'the common man', the ordinary man, the soldier who is confronted with the everyday abyssal experi...
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'Running, to obtain' the Wim Mertens’ live concert at Gent Jazz, Belgium July 11, 2021.
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For his new opus 'Heroides' Wim Mertens was inspired by the 'Heroides' (Epistulae Heroidum) by Ovide.
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The titles of this new opus are in the spotlight today at a time of great global uncertainty caused by Covid-19. Available now CD & digital formats.
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0th Anniversary Box Set. A career spanning compilation including 61 Compositions, 5 Hours of Music, 49 pages booklet that collect a unique itinerary,10 Revisited hits & 2 New Compositions.Available as Box Set 4CD Limited Edition, and to download/stream everywhere.
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The new Live album is out now! Available on 2 CD + DVD and to download/stream everywhere.
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Mertens combines in his album the rational with the playful and the ‘for amusement only’ with the ‘after virtue’.
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Nature’s Largess presents the live première of the last part Dust of truths at BOZAR in Brussels, 2016. The two hours concert with the Wim Mertens Ensemble also includes new arrangements of Maximizing the Audience, Often a Bird and Sidemen.
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The Tonality an excerpt of the upcoming Wim Mertens DVD Nature’s Largess. The Wim Mertens Ensemble live at BOZAR, Brussels 21.10.2016
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Contemporary Brussels, ancient Rome and ancient Greece; composer Wim Mertens’ Cran aux Oeufs is a musi-fiction triptych that questions the connections between song, poetry and truth. It combines ensemble work with – for the first time since 2005’s Un Respiro – a solo album for his distinctive piano and voice.
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Concert of Wim Mertens Trio at Royal Palace of Brussels, 19th of October 2016.
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With Dust of Truths Wim Mertens presents the final part 3 of his musi-fiction triptych Cran aux Oeufs (2015-2016).
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With What are we, locks, to do?, Wim Mertens releases his 10th solo album for piano and voice.
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Now available on vinyl: Struggle for Pleasure, Maximizing the Audience and The Belly of an Architect.
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Precisely 30 years after the release of Struggle for pleasure from the composer Wim Mertens he releases a double CD with, alongside the original titles, a selection of 10 previously unreleased tracks from his archives.
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With OPEN CONTINUUM Wim Mertens presents his second project with symphonic orchestra. In 2006 the composer recorded Partes extra partes, a studio production with the Brussels Philarmonic directed by the Argentinian conductor Dante Anzolini.
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Concert Wim Mertens with OFUNAM Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM, conducted by Jesus Medina.
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Concert Wim Mertens with Filarmonica Toscanini, conducted by Carlo Guatoli.
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Photo moments and good memories from the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, July 30, 2017 in Athens, Greece. Cran aux Oeufs Tour.
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Wim Mertens live 2017 (Cran aux Oeufs Tour) performing ‘Dust of Truths’ at the Roman Odeon of Nicopolis in Preveza, Greece – July 29th.
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Monument of Octavian Augustus, Nikopolis, Greece. 24.08.2014, just before the concert starts.
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