Chamber Concerto

Chamber Concerto (1979)

Commissioned by the Ministry of Culture during my period as student at the Conservatory of Utrecht. First performance 6 September 1980 in the Ysbreker in Amsterdam during the International Gaudeamus Music Week by the ASKO-ensemble, conducted by Jurrien Sligter.

Chamber-Concerto

Reviews

Robert Nasveld writes exceptionally beautiful music, although its beauty is not pastoral, but contradictory, unstable, disturbing, capable of stimulating all spiritual forces of the listener.

Julia Soultanova, CHAIN D.L.K. ID #603

Pianist and composer Robert Nasveld is an outsider; as radio producer and indefatigable advocate of American composer George Crumb he is a man of significance.

Hans Heg, Klassiekezaken.nl

My reference for comparison with Crumb’s Makrokosmos IV is that of Robert Nasveld on the Attacca label, 9371 and 9372. My main reason for selecting this version is that it has always come out on top, all other recordings which I have come across long having gone by the wayside.

Dominy Clements, Musicweb Review

He understands my music as no other.

George Crumb in NRC Handelsblad

Crumb himself could not have wished for a better recording.

Volkskrant, CD review

Robert Nasveld’s music presented surprising power of expression.

Frau Dr. Alena Borková in Rovnost

Robert Nasveld presents a wonderful example of the bitter melancholy that is the essence of the blues with his beautiful Frozen Blues.

Frits van der Waa, Volkskrant

Even when things could theoretically become serious, for example in Six Cavafy songs (2009), a song cycle using the poetry of Greek poet Kavafis, the tone remains springlike and sparking.

Jochem ValkenburgNRC

Nasveld has always been a wayward composer, showing little interest in trends.

Frits van der Waa, Volkskrant

When you are at a dead end with a student, ‘Hand over Hand’ has funny, exciting, sensitive pieces to make him/her enthusiastic again.

EPTA