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'Dirk HERTEN is a pianist who marches to the beat of a different metronome...'
The whole Note - David Olds
'Every now and then an unfamiliar recording of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas challenges acknowledged preconceptions regarding interpretation, but recent recording by Dirk Herten goes a step or two farther than that....
Gramophone - Rob Cowan
On the occasion of the centenary of the end of the WW1 the cellist Olsi Leka releases “Reminiscence“. The intent is to offer a one-of-a-kind CD combining classical music with contemporary photography taken by Fréderic Pauwels and documents, such as letters, but not only, written by soldiers and their relatives during WW1...
High praise indeed for Herten, but not undeserved. In Herten’s hands, classics such as “They Can’t Take That Away from Me” and “Embraceable You” are a wistful fantasy of time past, an involuntary – but not unwelcome – return. Herten’s reverent interpretation of the intricate material renders the original tunes nearly saccharine and pale in comparison.
by Kiersten van Vliet
Annabelle Berthomé-Reynolds and Dirk Herten give a zestful account of Charles Ives’s Violin Sonatas. They dispatch this repertoire with both expressive character and sensitivity.
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