Nicolas van Poucke

Nicolas van Poucke – The Schumann Collection, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:52:32 minutes | 3,52 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © TRPTK

In 2020 I was approached by TRPTK to record an album. Due to the lockdown resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the world looked very different and live music performances had come to a halt. The idea of using the time in lockdown well, by recording an album while waiting to get back on stage as soon as the circumstances allowed, sounded great.

I chose to record three pieces of Robert Schumann which were already in my repertoire. At the end of the recording period the TRPTK team suggested we call the album “The Schumann Collection Volume l”, implying there would be more to come; I agreed happily.

In the process of preparing for the recording I fully immersed myself in Schumann’s musical universe and my obsession with this music took off. The agreement with TRPTK inspired me to continue my Schumann journey and resulted in this album containing pieces from both Schumann’s early and late period.

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Nicolas van Poucke – The Schumann Collection, Vol. 1 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:12:53 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © TRPTK

Born in 1992 in Baarn, The Netherlands, into a family of professional musicians: his father is a trumpet player and his mother a violist. The piano, which he took up at age six, quickly became the faithful companion for expressing a love of music that, until today, thrives as much on opera, orchestra, and chamber music as on the piano repertoire. After an highly acclaimed recital in a sold-out Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Dutch music magazine De Nieuwe Muze dubbed Nicolas ‘the young freethinker among Dutch pianists’.

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