Quotes from the Music Press

 

On Antonio Soler – Selected Sonatas for Harp
(MDG SCENE 903 1627-6)

‘The Dutch harpist Godelieve Schrama gives breezy yet fascinating performances, and her supreme mastery of the instrument makes the music sing with unbounded bliss. A real peach of a disc in the best MD&G traditions we have come to expect.
(www.classical.net April 2011)

‘This SACD demonstrates to my ears more than the usual all-Soler harpsichord album the amazingly varied cornucopia of musical colors and tastes found in Soler’s music.’
(Audiophile Edition – March 2011)

‘Add [to these sonatas] the musical, sensitive, transparent and well-articulated play of Godelieve Schrama and you get 12 little gems.’
(Luister – April 2011)

After performing Fas/Nefas by Willem Jeths in Winterthur

‘Harfenistin Godelieve Schrama: eine fulminante Interpretin’
(Neue Zürcher Zeitung – October 2007)

‘Die Harfenistin Godelieve Schrama vollbrachte mit der Meisterung des immensen Soloparts eine sensationelle Bravourleistung..’
(Der Landbote – October 2007)

Harpist Godelieve Schrama caused a sensation with Ravel’s Introduction et Allegro.
(NRC Handelsblad, 24 July 2006)

On Ginastera & Montsalvatge Concerti (NWC 411087 SACD)

A bold performer, Schrama goes beyond the harp’s dulcet image, surpassing earlier recordings of these concertos.
(Luister, May 2005)

On Haydn’s Concerti (NWC 206241)

Haydn and harp, the two seem to be made for each other. The instrument is spirited, dynamic, even monumental in the fast movements and lilting, contemplative and profound in the slow movements. No elves or pink sugar hearts here.
(Luister, December 2002)

Schrama dazzles with her brilliant lyre.
(NRC Handelsblad, 19 October 2002)

On Harp Concertos from the Netherlands (NM Classics 92077)

Schrama continually steals the show with her sparkling performance.
(Luister, February 2002)

Schrama plays with passion and refinement.
(Haagsche Courant, September 2001)