{"id":1052,"date":"2025-06-20T16:21:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merelvercammen.com\/?post_type=project&p=1052"},"modified":"2025-06-20T16:41:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:41:28","slug":"sarasvati","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.merelvercammen.com\/en\/project\/sarasvati\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarasvati"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

First album on Merel Vercammen\u2019s own label All Ears Records<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Violinist Merel Vercammen and pianist Dina Ivanova explore music by composers with an open-minded approach, with the violin sonatas by Debussy and Poulenc as central pillars. For Debussy, music from the Far East was a major source of inspiration, and the Dutch composer Joey Roukens likewise drew on Eastern melodies in his work Sarasvati<\/em>. Poulenc, in turn, believed that Debussy (together with Brahms) was one of the few who achieved a beautiful balance between violin and piano. Poulenc himself wrote a stunning sonata based on a poem by the Spanish poet Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca, in which a guitar brings dreams to tears. Composer and Buma Classical Award winner Mathilde Wantenaar writes in a style closely related to that of the great French composers such as Debussy, whom she sees as a key source of inspiration. This rich palette is completed by a short piece by the young Estonian composer Alisson Kruusmaa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buy the album<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Press quotes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This performance here of Poulenc’s Violin Sonata does more than stand comparison with versions by far better-known names, it might be the most convincing of all recordings of this tricky work<\/em><\/strong>” – The Arts Desk<\/a> UK <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Vercammen and Ivanova spark the imagination. [\u2026] Associative and idiosyncratic, this music gives Vercammen and Ivanova exactly what they need to excel.”<\/strong>
\u2013 Joep Stapel, NRC<\/em> \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 & Album of the Week<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Vercammen and Ivanova shift organically between calm meditation and fiery outbursts.”<\/strong>
\u2013 Dennis Bajram, De Volkskrant<\/em> \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":746,"template":"","class_list":["post-1052","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merelvercammen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merelvercammen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merelvercammen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merelvercammen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merelvercammen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}