Although much else has now been recorded, the piano music of the Dutch composer Hendrik Andriessen (1892–1981) largely remain to be discovered. This first conspectus of his piano music covers fifty years of composition. It shows how early influences – among them Bach, Brahms, Franck, Hindemith and Ravel – were subsumed into a musical language distinguished by its textural clarity and harmonic warmth. Five of the works in this album are receiving their first recording.

Jacob Nydegger, a native of San Antonio, Texas, studied in his home city with Blanca Rodriguez, winning first prize at the seventeenth annual Petroff Piano Competition and receiving the Outstanding Performer award at Texas State Solo & Ensemble Contest in 2012 and 2013. Since then, he has studied under Seth Carlin at Washington University in St Louis, and he currently studies with Joseph Banowetz at the University of North Texas, where he has received the Larry Walz Piano Scholarship and the Outstanding Undergraduate in Piano Performance award. This recording is his debut album.