Maartje Valk, reviewer for Dutch classical music magazine ‘Luister’, has written an excellent review in the current issue about the highly acclaimed CD ‘Halo‘ for which Ralph partnered with flutist/piccoloist Ilonka Kolthof. Scoring it 9/10, it says, for example: ‘with [Ilonka Kolthof’s] recital partner Ralph van Raat at the piano, she makes the seemingly impossible, possible […] The piano is a full-blown musical dialogue partner and Van Raat succeeds in delivering the almost unplayable piano parts into the universe as lightly as a feather‘.
