Dick Raaijmakers: The Complete Tape Music.(Review)

Compact disc sets, 1998, Donemus CV-NEAR 04/05/06/07/08 (Boerman), CV-NEAR 09/10/11 (Raaijmakers); available from Donemus, Paulus Potterstraat 16, 1071 CZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands; telephone (020) 676-4436; fax (020) 673-3588; electronic mail info@donemus.nl; World Wide Web www.donemus.nl

You have to give it to the Dutch--they take their support of culture seriously! Donemus, the state music publisher, has undertaken to release a series of recordings documenting the electroacoustic music of Holland. Rather than produce compilations, as many other countries and studios have done, Donemus has made the decision to release the work of individual composers, at least so far. The first recordings are devoted to two of the pioneers of Dutch electronic music, Jan Boerman and Dick Raaijmakers. Both men have composed a great variety of music for all sorts of genres, but these box sets concentrate on their tape music. Each set is …