Pieter van Loenen and Tobias Borsboom, winners of the prestigious Dutch Classical Talent Award 2019 and 2015 bring us their debut release on TRPTK titled The Silence Between. A performance by Pieter was described as “with an intense attention to structure and style, he creates a vision of unprecedented beauty”. A solo performance by Tobias on January 29 reviewed in the PZC was described as “convincing, dynamic, with an admirable technique and enchanting fingers” and from “an intelligent musician with a jewel of a toucher who searches for meaning, poetic truths and sound beauty”.
‘The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between them.’ This quote, attributed to Claude Debussy, got them thinking. What could that phrase mean, violinist Pieter van Loenen and pianist Tobias Borsboom wondered.
Through music of Stravinsky, Poulenc, Takemitsu, Schwertsik and of course Debussy the duo explores in this album the different possible interpretations of ‘the silence between’: The place where the music resides.
Pieter van Loenen – Violin
Tobias Borsboom – Piano
Tracklist
Total time: 00:58:58
Additional information
| Label | |
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| SKU | TTK0058 |
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| Cables | Furutech |
| Digital Converters | Merging Technologies Hapi, Merging Technologies Anubis |
| Mastering Engineer | Brendon Heinst |
| Microphones | DPA, Sony |
| Notes | Find more more technical information in the booklet. |
| Original Recording Format | |
| Recording Engineer | Brendon Heinst |
| Recording location | Westvest90 Church Schiedam, The Netherlands |
| Recording Type & Bit Rate | DXD |
| Speakers | KEF |
| Release Date | December 11, 2020 |
Press reviews
de Volkskrant
The pandemic put an extra layer on the title of the debut album by 27 year old violinist Pieter van Loenen accompanied by pianist Tobias Borsboom.
The Silence Between could thus refer to the silence and stagnation of the lockdowns. He actually refers to a statement by Debussy that the music is not in the notes, but in the silences in between.
The album has become an interesting quest for the meaning of Debussy’s pronunciation and for the data behind music. Van Loenen and Borsboom have an unprecedented strong synergy, as in their version of Poulenc’s Violin Sonata; a tone of sad frenesis.
The two-part Unterwegs nach Heiligenstadt by the Austrian composer Kurt Schwertsik expresses Beethoven’s desperation about his increasing deafness. Van Loenen plays empathically: with little vibrato and sharp strokes, it seems as if he senses the growing silence around Beethoven and his despair itself.
Musicalifeiten
For his TRPTK debut album, Pieter van Loenen, who graduated from the Conservatory of The Hague and immediately afterwards won several prizes, chose five twentieth century compositions (well: Debussy’s song Beau soir is from 1891, but Heifetz’s arrangement is much later).
There is plenty of variety and variety between the French and Japanese Impressionism of Debussy and Takemitsu, the neoclassical style of Stravinsky, the Viennese of discovery Kurt Schwertsik (1935) of the ‘Third Viennese School’ who, on the way to Beethoven in Heiligenstadt, first ‘Energico’ and then ‘ Tranquillo ‘shows and the bittersweet of Poulencs Violin Sonata written for Ginette Neveu in 1943.
Van Loenen has no trouble finding the right atmosphere and the right character every time, and with his expressive presentation he is very stimulatingly supported by Tobias Borsboom.
What a successful debut. The album shows how good a younger generation of Dutch musicians is performing at this high level.
As usual with TRPTK, a lot of care has been taken with the recording. Good also that the (unsung) texts of the works of Takemitsu and Garcia Lorca (to whose memory Poulenc’s Violin Sonata is dedicated; the “Intermezzo” is based on his “Las seis cuerdas” (the six strings) have been printed.
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