I consider him a major discovery, although I've found only two disks of his music - one of film scores, the other these piano concerti. He obviously has a much larger catalogue, which I can't wait to hear. Devreese has abstracted all these influences into something his own. Despite the distinctly 20 th -century language, the music is solidly in the great Romantic tradition. If you like the Rachmaninoff concerti, you will probably like Devreese.
Percussive sections alternate with Romantic singing.
The second movement sings a highly abstract blues or slow gospel. Here, the feeling comes close to Gershwin or even Ellington. The third movement has all the energy of a jam session, without literal quotation. Again, this is not a jazz concerto. Devreese has taken the jazz element into an idiom that reminds slightly of Honegger and Jolivet.