Альбомы исполнителя
Voice of the Living
2023 · альбом
On The Zephyrous Peak
2023 · сингл
Heroides
2022 · альбом
Briseis
2022 · сингл
Sappho
2021 · сингл
The Gaze of the West
2020 · альбом
European Grasses
2020 · сингл
Struggle for pleasure
2020 · сингл
Inescapable
2019 · альбом
Certain Nuances Excepted
2019 · альбом
That Which Is Not
2018 · альбом
Natures' Largess
2017 · альбом
Cran Aux Oeufs
2017 · альбом
Dust of Truths
2016 · альбом
What Are We, Locks, to Do?
2016 · альбом
Charaktersketch
2015 · альбом
When Tool Met Wood
2014 · альбом
A Starry Wisdom
2012 · альбом
Double Entendre
2012 · альбом
Open Continuum
2011 · альбом
Series of Ands: Immediate Givens
2011 · альбом
Zee Versus Zed
2010 · альбом
Music and Film
2009 · альбом
The World Tout Court
2009 · альбом
The Promise Kept in Advance
2008 · альбом
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Биография
The Belgian composer Wim Mertens is an international recording and performing artist who has given countless concerts as a soloist, with different ensembles, and also with a symphony orchestra. His early landmark albums are 'Vergessen' and 'Struggle for Pleasure ' (1982), including 'Close Cover', still one of his classics. The 1985 album, 'Maximizing the Audience', saw the introduction of vocals in Mertens’ music, an element that has grown on later albums. Since 1980, Mertens has composed pieces in different formats, from short, accessible songs or Lieder to magnanimous and complex three- and four-part cycles, and for different settings: from solo piano to chamber music ensembles and symphony orchestra. He often writes for unusual instrumentations: twelve piccolos, ten bass trombones, thirteen clarinets. Since his recording debut in 1980, titled 'For Amusement Only', an electronic composition for pinball machines, Wim Mertens has released more than 70 albums. ‘Voice Of The Living’ is his last album. The composition is told from the point of view of 'the common man', the ordinary man, the soldier who is confronted with the everyday abyssal experience. Literally, face to face with the unprecedented, the unforeseen, the unimaginable and all this across the imposing rival camps. Wim Mertens continues to perform and record in different formats: solo piano, duo, trio, with different ensembles and also with a symphony orchestra.