Press for "The New Collection"
CD Review:
Boudewijn Tarenskeen sets Shakespeare's 129th sonnet for soprano and piano duo, and here the music is on a par with the magnificent text. Austere low-end rumbles resonate in clouds of suspended harmonics, and by the time soprano Jenny Haisma enters, humming, the necessary gravitas is firmly established. Tarenskeen's word setting is simple and direct without being naïve, and allows the formidable intensity of the sonnet to manifest itself (it takes balls to tackle a poem as good as this - imagine the horrible turgid mess a Gorecki could make of it). At last a real composer who doesn't feel the need to hide behind a PoMo mask.
Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic Magazine - March 2003
CD Review:
The pianists expand the boundaries of the classic pianoduo with their new CD, "De Nieuwe Kollektie".
The Volkskrant (Holland) - Summer 2002