The Presidente is a joint project Pim Koopman and Okkie Huysdens. Wilhelmus Frederikus (Pim) Koopman was the drummer and percussionist of the Dutch progressive rock band, Kayak. As a musician, writer, producer and arranger, Koopman was also involved in two other bands: Diesel and The President. The President was a collaboration with Okkie Huysdens. Okkie Huysdens - Dutch singer, keyboardist, songwriter, recording engineer and producer. Active in several bands since the late 1960s, Huysdens was subsequently a member of Himalaya (1970-1971), Heart (1973-1975) and Limousine (1975-1976). He also joined Rainbow Train from 1975 until 1979. During the early 1980s he worked on the Stars On 45 project and was a member of The President (1983-1985).
“My enthusiasm for Brahms goes back to my youth, and the piano concertos are largely responsible for it,” writes Sir András Schiff in a liner note for this remarkable new recording. It finds the great pianist reassessing interpretive approaches to Brahms in the inspired company of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. To fully bring out the characteristics of Brahms’s music Schiff’s choice of instrument is a Blüthner piano built in Leipzig around 1859, the year in which the D minor concerto was premiered. The historically informed Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment plays with the flexibility, attitude, and responsiveness of a chamber music ensemble, as they work without a conductor, listening attentively to each other. András Schiff’s collaboration with the orchestra in a series of concerts was widely acclaimed: “Brahms’s First Piano Concerto was reborn thanks to the OAE’s incisive playing and András Schiff’s characterful phrasing”, The Guardian exclaimed. The musicians’ mutual wish to recapture the experience led to the present double album, recorded in London in December 2019.
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