Peter Swart
VIEWS volume 2
A new set of 20 instrumental miniatures, ranging from merry tunes to atmospheric ambient melodies, which I wrote during the first years of the life of my children. When evenings were too short and too often disturbed to concentrate on serious and conceptual compositions.
The overall tone is more serious than that of volume 1.
Two compositions could be listened to on the funerals of my parents. View no. 40 - Farewell was for dad (he was much into electronic music during his last years) and View no. 21 - Dimness for mom, who still had piano lessons during her eighties.
Peter Swart:
All compositions, keyboards.
Painting:
Gerrit Neven (used with permission)
View no. 21 - Dimness 1:10
View no. 22 - The ancient pool 0:59
View no. 23 - Shoot the piano player 1:07
View no. 24 - Beneath the moon 1:10
View no. 25 - A swift dark stream 0:50
View no. 26 - The day grew warm 1:10
View no. 27 - The shoreward path 0:57
View no. 28 - A shingly shore 0:55
View no. 29 - Gleams in darkness 2:14
View no. 30 - The flicker of flames 0:34
View no. 31 - Mist upon the ground 1:40
View no. 32 - A pale midday sky 1:13
View no. 33 - A slender beam of sun 0:40
View no. 34 - Lost to sight 1:33
View no. 35 - Noises in the undergrowth 1:15
View no. 36 - Shades of night 1:25
View no. 37 - The forest gate 1:22
View no. 38 - Hope of any ending 0:43
View no. 39 - The shimmery lake 0:58
View no. 40 - Farewell 2:11