press reviews
- Trouw (Dutch Newspaper):
"Van Schie brings to our ears being a pianist able of realizing polyphonic playing in a sound and melodic way."
Van Schie laat horen een pianist te zijn die polyfoon pianospel gaaf en melodisch kan realiseren.
- Pianowereld (piano magazine):
"Tjako van Schie knows how to capture right from the start, he obviously chooses for a personal approach and does not take the easiest route."
- Algemeen Dagblad (Dutch newspaper):
"The whole performance was breathing a benificient tranquility and profoundness, which one would not expect in such a young musician."
- Zwolse Courant (Dutch newspaper):
"Poetry in the playing of Tjako van Schie... His legato playing has a special charm, besides he manages to create very convincing contrasts in a purely musical manner."
- Leeuwarder Courant (Dutch newspaper):
"Remarkable was the quietness and unbiassedness which radiated from this playing."
- Luister (Cd-review magazine):
"Tjako van Schie shows an independant spirit. Valuable too is the beautifully singing legato. The overall impression is, with a conscious approach here a great pianist presents himself."
- From THE Goldberg Maniacs Website:
This info. was offered by Junichi Miyazawa. Thank you very much. The Gould Festival was held in 1992, he came on the stage. (Sep.06.1998) The performer was born in 1961 in the Netherlands and this recording was recorded in Nijmegen in 1991. No sooner did I listen to this performance, it takes me to a world of dream. Each variation has a moderate tempo indeed and it echoes in the audiences' body and soul. In respect of the confortability, this is one of those you might like to get. This CD is available from CDDiscovery and you can read his articles in his web . (Apr.18.1999)
- John Bell Young (New York Times):
"By the way, Tjako, who I had the great pleasure of hearing in concert, is an utterly fabulous pianist and a first class artist, so rest
assured, that whatever he says comes from a position of tremendous experience and real authority.."
- Karen
"Last night I listened to Tjako's recording of the Goldberg Variations. I was very pleased and impressed. I was sent the CD by taking his quiz on his home page. I thought, well a free CD, he must be just a mediocre musician if he has to give away his own CD. (Sorry, Tjako , that's how sceptical I always am!) As a Bach lover myself I recognize in Tjako a love of Bach, and a love of the piano. He performs very convincingly. It's as if his mind, his hands, and his ear, all love the music he has chosen. The only other recording I have heard is Gould's, and so with all due respect to Mr. Gould, I didn't really know what it should sound like. If this is what the variations were intended to sound like, then hat's off to you Tjako . This recording is enough to make a Bach lover out of anybody! Have a musical day, Karen "
- Ryan Morison
"I would have to agree on that quality of Tjako's performance after also listening to his Bach Goldbergs CD. I like his tone and some of his technical work in the faster more intricate variations is definitely in my ears comparable to that of Gould's. I also made many friends who are pianists listen to his CD and even the most sceptical and difficult ones enjoyed the CD and had very little criticism!"
- Jan Arends, Spain
"Beste Tjako,
Gisteren leverde onze postvrouwe Teresa het aangetekende pakketje af.
Dat was razendsnel en kwam lekker op tijd want het is hier hondenweer
en iedereen loopt wat rond te niezen.
Ik ben spoorslags naar het sousterrain gegaan waar ik alle ruimte heb
en daar intens genoten van je langverwachte en beeldschone pianospel.
Het is 'mijn' derde versie maar het was of ik de Goldbergvariaties voor de
eerste keer hoorde.
Het langzame begin met de Aria - die je naar mijn helemaal persoonlijke
smaak veel intenser speelt dan in de versies die ik heb - deed me goed.
Vandaag heb ik voor het eerst ook je lezing met voorbeelden twee keer gehoord.
Dat is werkelijk beeldschoon, Tjako."
- Bert Boonstra, Coevorden
"Vervolgens speelde Tjako van Schie de sterren van de hemel met zijn pianospel in ”Hochzeitstag auf Troldhaugen”.
(Coevorden, Koninginnedagconcert 2006)"Tjako van Schie deed zijn naam als pianovirtuoos alle eer aan, want zijn pianospel in o.a. de “Fantasie” van Mozart , de “Rhapsodie” van Brahms en de “Barcarolle” van Fauré wedijverden met elkaar in klankkleur. Zijn uitvoering van Frans Liszt in “Les jeux d’eau à la Villa d’Este” was eveneens van zeer grote klasse. Het leek of de witte en zwarte toetsen naar zijn vingers toekwamen om aangeraakt te willen worden in een waterval van muziek. Schitterend!!"
(Dalfsen, concert Grote Kerk, lees meer op de site van het Coevorder Mannenkoor )
