‘Youri Egorov wasn’t very fond of Liszt. he considered the composer insincere, not honest. Camiel Boomsma’s CD contains two Wagner transcriptions by Franz Liszt. Tannhauser: Recitativ und Romance en Tristan und Isolde: Isoldes Liebestod. It seems as if Camiel discretely wants to contradict Youri: Both transcriptions are free of false effects and are remarkably pure. That is maybe also because of Boomsma’s restrained and subtle playing. One can make Wagner thunder, also in transcriptions, but Boomsma does not do this. The CD also contains a transcription by Zoltan Kocsis, Tristan und Ioslde Einleitung: Impressive. A funny coincidence is that Zoltan Kocsis regularly visited Egorov residence at the Brouwersgracht in Amsterdam. A very daring debut CD by Camiel Boomsma without virtuosic thunder but highly musical and profound – entirely in the style of Egorov’