CD HENDRIK BOUMAN: 5 BAROQUE CONCERTOS
FOR ANNA [Arya]
The Harpsichord Concerto opens with a fresh, positive Allegro, with Bouman's playing articulate, lively, swayed and with plenty of flair.
- Harpsichord & Fortepiano Magazine,
Spring Vol. 16 #2 , April 2012
CD German Chamber Music before Bach
[DGG / Archiv]
“I can still listen to Bouman’s performance [Bach’s keyboard transcription of Reincken’s A minor Sonata] with pleasure and and do not feel that it has been superceded.”
- Early Music, Oxford UK January 2010
CD BACH - CHAMBER MUSIC - 5CDs, [DGG / Archiv]
“So, 21 years after winning a Gramophone Award, how does Musica Antiqua Köln's five-disc compilation of Bach's chamber music square up? The short answer is: amazingly well.
...the treats come when Hendrik Bouman accompanies Jaap Ter Linden in the viola da gamba sonatas and Wilbert Hazelzet in the works for flute. Bouman extracts a softer timbre from his instruments and his own style has an accommodating graciousness that matches the musicianship of his colleagues. Indeed, all three are superlative, and they persuasively demonstrate how to be historically justified and historically informed without resorting to intransigent dogma that is inimical to interpretation.”
- Gramophone, August 20, 2005
"Hendrik Bouman is an extraordinarily fine harpsichord player. His playing is subtle, immaculate, and beautifully shaded. The instrument which he built himself, is warm and sweet, and he knows how to use rainshowers of notes to accumulate sound in order to supply a plastic medium with which to model phrases."
- The Mail Star, Halifax, August 1999
"Hendrik Bouman, one of the best harpsichordists in the world."
- ATV Halifax, Canada, August, 1999
"The ‘Prestige Concert' with the soprano Nancy Argenta and the pianist Hendrik Bouman was the best event of the Mozart Festival of the Montreal Opera."
- Le Devoir, Montréal, Canada, May 1992
"Hendrik Bouman, who played for several years with Musica Antiqua Köln, has nimble fingers. He played the fortepiano in a manner that made one sit up. His pianistic gestures were as unusual as they were effective."
- The Gazette, Montreal, Canada, May 1992
“Prestige Concert” of the Mozart Festival
of the Montreal Opera, Canada
“In his presentation of Mozart on the fortepiano, Bouman played Mozart’s piano music in such a passionate manner that it refuted all cold and erroneous notions of Mozart being ‘a not yet Beethovan’.”
- Il Messaggero, Arenzano, Italia, Aug. 1991
"An hour and a half of inspired music making. It is not how cleanly a harpsichordist executes the notes. Hundreds of performers can do that. What seperates the artist from the rest of the pack is how he or she chooses to breathe life into this ever-changing ever-contrasting music. Bouman’s artistry came through time after time."
- Oregonian, Portland USA, April, 1991
"Among Marie Leonhardt's impressive soloists, harpsichordist Hendrik Bouman gave a remarkably poetic interpretation of one of Bach’s Toccatas."
- Dagblad van het Oosten, Netherlands
January 1991
CD Musique en Nouvelle France: HAYDN HERITAGE, direction Hendrik Bouman: Petits Motets
by Campra, Bernier, Morin [REM /Radio Canada]
"We hear in the ensemble Haydn-Heritage, recently formed by that extraordinary harpsichordist Hendrik Bouman, whom we have known for many years beside Reinhardt Gobel [Musica Antiqua Köln], immense musical and stylistic qualities, in a unique programme of great beauty and rendered with a faith and a charm, one does not always encounter where one would most expect it."
- Diapason, April 1990
"SCARLATTI SPARKLES FROM THE HARPSICHORD"
"With his excellent touché, brilliant and rapid, the harpsichordist Hendrik Bouman conveyed to us a performance full of a joie de vivre which was truly marvellous." (live TV - RAI UNO performance)
- Il Secolo XX, Genova, June 1990
"Very warm applause for the harpsichordist Hendrik Bouman who imparted to the six voice Ricercar [Musical Offering] a density and vastness which communicates to us the grandeur of Bach’s sound universe."
- Dernières Nouvelles d’ Alsace,
Strasbourg, France, February 1983
"UNFORGETTABLE EVENT"
"The solo performance by the Dutch harpsichordist Hendrik Bouman was of a level one rarely hears; his free approach made the music totally comprehensible from beginning to end."
- Eindhovens Dagblad,Netherlands,
November 1982
“Hendrik Bouman also merited ample applause. With great vigilance he tirelessly provided backbone to the ensemble with his continuo, proving himself as an absolute master of his harpsichord.”
- Süderlander Volksfreund, Germany
October 1982
CD TELEMANN - CHAMBER CONCERTOS [DGG / Archiv]
"Equally exquisite is the sound with which the young ensemble Music Antiqua Köln's eight musicians - Germans, an Englishman, and the excellent Dutch harpsichordist and organist Hendrik Bouman recorded Telemann’s chamber concertos in various formations."
- Kleine Zeitung Graz, Austria, 1980
CD German Chamber Music before Bach
[DGG / Archiv]
“Thanks to the excellent harpsichordist Hendrik Bouman, the basso continuo is of an exciting flexibility; he has a marked rhythmical sense and a brillant capacity to create dynamics by means of his agogic play. His impressive solo (Bach’s harpsichord arrangement of an extensive ensemble sonata by Reincken - box of 4 records of German Chamber Music) shows off the superb quality of this technically and musically remarkable harpsichordist.”
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-Allgemeine Zeitung, Mainz, Germany,
December 1979
CD BACH - MUSICAL OFFERING - [DGG / Archiv]
"In the two solo Ricercari, which frame the Musical Offering of Bach, Hendrik Bouman distinguishes himself as a marvellously noble harpsichordist."
- Salzburger Nahrichten, Austria,
November 1979
"Hendrik Bouman proved his superb mastery in the art of harpsichord playing: his immaculate virtuosity, his detailed vision and vast spectrum of colours."
- Reutlinger Nachrichten, Reutlingen,
Germany, May 1979
"The most exciting of all was of course the D major Harpsichord Concerto [J.S.Bach], played by Hendrik Bouman: his articulation and perfect technique made his rendering highly communicative."
- Bonner Tageszeitung, Bonn, Germany,
March 1979
"One feels that Hendrik Bouman is primarily a soloist, who demonstrates his capacity to easily adapt and restrain himself in his accompaniments. While maintaining a detailed structure, he yet conveys a sense of free improvisation. This very balance carries the art to its highest attainment."
- Tagesblatt Heidelberg, Germany,
August 1978
"A performance beyond all praise, in which the musicians Reinhard Goebel, Hajo Bäss and Ingrid Seifert (violins), Charles Medlam (cello), Jonathan Cable (violone), as well as the harpsichordist Hendrik Bouman, who leads the music unnoticeably, presented brillantly the various Fantasies in all their intricacies."
- Bremer Nachrichten, Bremen, Germany
November 1978
“Hendrik Bouman made a fabulous impression.”
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-Duisburg, Germany, January. 1977
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"Without exaggerating, Hendrik Bouman was the surprise of the evening. His play is simply unsurpassed; very elegant and sensitive, interspersed with spontaneous ideas and very imaginative ....both in the basso continuo and in his solo work."
- Siegener Zeitung, Germany, Dec.1976
