I appreciate above all the thoughtfulness, the tenderness that is moving in many places, as well as the contrast between passionate drama and restraint or meditation that characterizes the very personal and expressive interpretation of Liszt’s Sonata in B minor. This distribution of forces then allows Boomsma sufficient reserves to shape the hymnic élan at the end in a gripping manner and then to plunge into an almost ethereal calm.

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December 2023