"The composer has succeeded to transfer the suite to the first half of the last century, when Van Doesburg was still alive.The music is dreamy, with an impressionistic character, open to a personal experience. The forms, which were so important to Van Doesburg, turn into impressive, orchestral music with Marc van Vugt and Ineke van Doorn, who wrote the lyrics. The composer had a superb eye for details with which he catches the total atmosphere of his stay in Paris in each of the eleven pieces." "The broad and sometimes unusual harmonic inventions evoke a panoramic atmosphere in which intimate, poetic stories are told - almost literally, by Ineke van Doorn, and figuratively by improvised solo’s, or composed built-in miniatures. Mostly the music sounds attractively mysterious, a little wayward but never rejecting, at times even seductive." THE VANDOESBURG HOUSE PARIS Marc van Vugt and Ineke van Doorn were invited to work for two years from the...