TZUM: Column Daan Pieters | Novgrad-by-sea

by R3mc0_@dm1n | Apr 12, 2022 | Media, Review

Whoever allows everything to come at him without prejudice and does not follow the crowd, but his nose, is most richly rewarded by culture (or in a broader sense: life). Attracted by no more than a rather vague affinity with Russia, where I was only guided in my...

Opus Classical CD Review ‘The Snowstorm’

by R3mc0_@dm1n | Apr 12, 2022 | Media, Review

A double CD, self-released, freshly offered and already buried under new government measures: the duo Lysenko and Boland do not get the chance to present their wonderful collaboration on the Dutch stages nor their album ‘The Blizzard’, just in the period...

Wonderful stories, wonderful music and in balance too

by R3mc0_@dm1n | Apr 4, 2022 | Media, Review

GIJSBERT KAMER | Volkskrant 16 November 2014, 21:06 Hertmans reads from his successful novel, Lysenko plays melancholy passages to it, and the audience watches breathlessly. So beautifully in harmony and with surprising performances was Crossing Border this year. Less...