Camiel Boomsma – The Innermost Side – Unfold (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 51:12 minutes | 1,76 GB | Genre: Classical
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Camiel Boomsma: “Many of the pieces on this album I have been carrying with me for many years already. In choosing these works for the recording, I was very conscious of that fact. The longer you carry a piece with you, the more you see ‘who’ the piece is rather than what it is. Liszt’s music is like an unspoiled landscape. It’s raw, fragile, strong, uncontrolled, poetic and paradoxical. One of the very first works I discovered was Vallee d’Obermann. When I play this piece, I ask myself to open up to this and observe the story that unfolds.
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Camiel Boomsma – Rediscovered – Bagatellen and Clavierstücke (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:23 minutes | 779 MB | Genre: Classical
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For Camiel Boomsma, discovering the music by Dutch composer Gerhard (and his son Karel) Hamm was really a game of fate. After a recital, Carl Hamm, who is a direct descendant, gave him a stack of scores. While playing through the pieces at home Boomsma was struck by their delicacy and narrative power. Gerhard Hamm belongs in a way to the musical family of Robert Schumann. He writes little poetic reflections on grand Romantic gestures. In these small musical poems a whole world lies hidden. Sometimes powerful and proud, sometimes vulnerable and reflective. Romantic expression beautiful in itself. In his Gefunden: 6 Clavierstücke in Liedform, Op. 18, Gerhard Hamm’s musical gift as a composer is beautifully displayed. Hamm’s craftsmanship is excellent but he never neglects poetic expression.
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