"Margriet Hoenderdos was born in 1952. She composed her first mature piece, blue time for two pianos, in 1981 while studying with Ton de Leeuw, and her last work, januari '10 for ensemble, in the year of her death. In between she wrote some fifty compositions, ranging from solo works to orchestral pieces. Within Dutch music life with its preference for grand rhetorical gestures her highly refined work remained a background presence, but a powerful one, attracting a small but dedicated following of colleagues, musicians and listeners.
Two works on this disc are related to poetry. juli Ô06 is based on the poem warwords by poet, painter and Hoenderdos' life partner, Bas Geerts. The woodwind quintet de lussen van Faverey ('Faverey's loops' or possibly Faverey's nooses') is Hoenderdos' response to the work of Hans Faverey, the great Dutch post-war poet, who wrote the title sequence of his final collection Het ontbrokene to be set to music by Hoenderdos. Instead of creating a conventional song cycle, she composed this instrumental work. []
In each of the works on this disc, the moments and motions of the music are simultaneously organized and destabilized on at least three levels. I call these structures of presentation, gestural spaces, and structures outside of time. Together these determine the musical flow.' Samuel Vriezen