Henneman Strijkkwartet - Pes

Coda Magazine

(...) The musicianship is of the highest level, the four-play superb. Ancient and new, understated, Pes is recommended if you're ready to take a leap ahead in the string quartet continuum. (Januar/Februar 2000)


All Music Guide

AMG REVIEW: The string quartet is an instrumental combination most often heard in many different genres of classical music; in fact, it is one of the standard groupings for this music, whereas it is a more rare enterprise in improvised music. Certainly there are examples of string players getting together to improvise, but the results can not so often be compared favorably with great classical string quartets. The Dutch viola player and composer Henneman is making great progress in this area however, as she has found a regular group of musicians to work with, evidenced by the six-year span of recording dates. The difficult task of integrating composition and improvisation is carried out with aplomb by this group: they actually make it sound easy. A nice combination of male and female energy exists in this group, as well as a combination of Dutch musicians and so-called ex-patriot Americans who have settled in the Netherlands. The players are comfortable working in a traditional, melodic, and harmonic manner but also can and do go way out. Everything that happens makes logical sense, and this is music that reveals rich layers of detail upon repeated listenings.
Eugene Chadbourne

(...) The musicianship is of the highest level, the four-play superb. Ancient and new, understated, Pes is recommended if you're ready to take a leap ahead in the string quartet continuum.
(Coda Magazine January/February 2000)

(...) Renaissance forms are evoked, modernist motifs are brandished, but Henneman's compositions are designed to accommodate refined improvisational skills, and that gives them their particular pungency.
(The Wire August 1999)

(...) Mediaeval orientated dances, Ivesian cruelties, Schubertian emotion - one hears it all. This quartet sounds cheerful, suddenly tired, another moment nostalgic, furious, disconsolate, intense and sad. Nothing which embraces humankind is strange to Henneman in her music.
(Emile Wennekes, Volkskrant 23.7.1999)

(...) Was Ig Henneman auf ihren beiden neuen Alben bietet ist zukunftweisend und gehört momentan zur spannendsten Musik in Europa.
(E.W., Jazz Live 124/1999)