About Mattias Spee’s debut album:

There is more music in the world than one person could listen to in a lifetime and in the age of the smartphone, all of it is available to us at the press of a button. Sometimes, we don’t see the forest for the trees, which means that, sadly, a lot of fantastic music slips under our radar. In a three part series of albums, called “Eclipse”, Mattias Spee sheds light on music that is forgotten, but shouldn’t have been.

You can order the album here.

At the request of the Dutch National Music Instrument Foundation (NMF), musicians who play an instrument from the foundation‘s collection contributed to a new musical phenomenon: the Gratitude, a piece of music through which you show what you are thankful for. Below, you can watch Mattias’s contribution to the project. For an overview of all the Gratitudes, click here.

Claude Debussy: Sonata in D Minor, L135
Recorded in Amsterdam, June of 2020

Louis Couperin: Prelude in A Minor
Recorded live in Nieuwkoop, June of 2020

Franz Schubert: Sonata in C Minor, D958
Recorded in Amsterdam, July of 2019

César Franck: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue, FWV21
Recorded in Amsterdam, July of 2019

Maurice Ravel: Pièce en forme de Habanera
Recorded live in Amsterdam, June of 2019

Frederico Mompou: Angelico (from Música Callada)
Recorded live in Amsterdam, May of 2019

Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio in B Flat Major, opus 11
Recorded live in Amsterdam, October of 2018

Johannes Brahms: Rhapsody in B Minor, opus 79 no. 1
Recorded live in The Hague, April of 2014