This CD deserves all the praise for its fascinating and exceptionally well-chosen music. Furthermore, for the performance itself, with a special mention for the sound quality. It is rare to hear a grand piano and violin in such sublime recording quality with such an impressive sound. Julija plays on a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume. One of the top productions right at the start of 2026.

“Hartig’s roots naturally give her access to the sonatas of Janáček and Enescu, you can hear that clearly, and how! With the accompaniment of Reineke Broekhans, ranging from generously resonant to delicately refined, this rhapsodic music is presented with deeply felt verve. [...] Hartig has a richly flexible tone, from lyrical to grand, and her pizzicato in the sonata by Fazıl Say may even be called magnificent.” PAUL HERRUER

Muziekmakers der Nederlanden - een podcast van Nieuw Muziek Now en Concertzender

In deze aflevering het vervolg van het gesprek met Julija Hartig, violist en maker van de CD “Black Rainbow’. Ze maakte die CD samen met Akim Moiseenkov en haar vaste duopartner Reinke Broekhans [piano], met behalve werk van onder meer Janacek en Enescu ook het titelstuk van de CD, Black Rainbow, waarin de stemmen van de moeder en overgrootmoeder van Julija te horen zijn, ooit opgenomen voor een grammofoonplaat met volksmuziek – de familie van Julija heeft wortels in onder meer Hongarije, Oostenrijk, voormalig Joegoslavië, waarvandaan Julija 32 jaar geleden naar Nederland is verhuisd…

Muziekmakers Der Nederlanden - een podcast van New Music Now en de Concertzender.

In deze aflevering een gesprek met violist Julija Hartig. Het gesprek werd live opgenomen, met publiek, in de kleine zaal van Splendor in Amsterdam, als een van de muziektalkshows die je op uiteenlopende momenten kunt bezoeken…

Black Rainbow in de Vrije Geluiden van VPRO

Grote dank aan Anne-Maartje van Lemereis en het team van Vrije Geluiden voor Black Rainbow iafgelopen zondag.

Het was bijzonder waardevol om te kunnen vertellen over de kern van het verhaal en de inhoud van het stuk!

Heb je de uitzending gemist? Beluister de hele aflevering van 25 januari 2026 hier.

Review Black Rainbow in Musical Frames

Black Rainbow is a stunning and inspiring CD by a violinist with an orchestral sound who makes her violin weep, cry, sing, and dance in a wide range of genres. With a confident, convincing, and precise technique, the violin is the core, the soul of the music, which begins immediately with the opening notes of Janáček’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, where later on, occasionally in the piano accompaniment, you even hear an imitation of the cymbal. Hartig is virtuously accompanied by pianist Reineke Broekhans, who approaches the compositions with a similar orchestral signature. Her playing, too, colors and flows effortlessly within the compositional painting, which is sometimes unexpectedly and abruptly marked by crescendos, accelerandos, or diminuendos. In these nuances, these two musicians prove that they complement each other exceptionally well musically, which is sublimely evident…

Back Rainbow - Hollandse Nieuwe 19. January - 23. January 2026 of Passagio Late Night programe of NPO

Julija Hartig creates a captivating world full of nostalgia and beauty – every note sounds sincere.

Julija Hartig creates a captivating world full of nostalgia and beauty – every note sounds sincere.

Yugoslavian-born violinist Julija Hartig emigrated to the Netherlands thirty years ago. On this album, she explores her cultural identity, follows her ancestors through Central Europe and the Balkans, and examines the feeling of home.

All that in four compositions? Yes, because together with pianist Reineke Broekhans, Hartig creates a fascinating world full of nostalgia and fragile beauty, through the jerky energy of Leoš Janáček's Sonata for Violin and Piano, the whirling rhythms in Fazil Say's First Violin Sonata, and the Romanian folk music that gasps and sighs through George Enescu's Third Violin Sonata.

The new single from the CD Black Rainbow is out!!!

Violin and piano Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 25, 

dans le caractère populaire roumain: 

I. Moderato malinconico

Julija Hartig - violin | Reineke Broekhans - piano

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Stay tuned for the album release and the release event!!!

Julija Hartig - violin

Reineke Broekhans - piano

In anticipation of our new CD Black Rainbow, listen to the first movement of the Janaček Sonata.

Julija Hartig en Reineke Broekhans (Duo Hartig-Broekhans) spelen Sonate voor viool en piano: 1. Con Moto van Leoš Janáček. Deze video is opgenomen in het Concertgemaal in Amsterdam.

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„Today’s systems, exhausted and decadent, are leading toward self-destruction because they have long depleted all means and possibilities for growth. The time has come for something new—for an idea and a form that have no name yet, but are already knocking at the door.“

Human beings have always been the product of migration, and we sometimes forget that today when we try to prove our belonging. The Great Floating Tribe, and a new mode of communication, understanding, and vision for the future, may already be here.

My mission is to give sound to this idea and to inspire reflection—and, above all, conversation.

This new CD, Black Rainbow, is the sound of my Belonging to cultures through my heritage and the feeling of home through music. Each of these pieces is a reflection of the cultures I carry within myself, either through my ancestral DNA—Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Austrian —or by being born into them—Yugoslavia, the Balkans.

You can support this CD through the new Crowdfunding campaign at Voor de Kunst by clicking on this link.

Thank you for your interest and kindnes!

The conversations also raise broader questions. How near is a region that is often seen as “far away”? What does it mean to belong somewhere? Can you feel connected to several places at once? Dutch-Serbian violinist Julija Hartig and writer Chris Keulemans join Pašović in a conversation about the past, belonging and identity. Hartig also expresses this theme in her music with Black Rainbow (2025), a personal work for violin, voice and electronics, in which she reflects on her origins and the desire to belong somewhere.

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De Nederlands-Servische violiste Julija Hartig speelde daarna Guslarska van Rudolf Brucci (1917–2002): geïnspireerd op de gusle, de traditionele knieviool met één snaar, die van Kroatië tot Albanië wordt bespeeld en vooral wordt gebruikt bij het begeleiden van epische heldendichten uit de tijd van de Turkse overheersing van de Balkan. De relatie met de traditionele volksmuziek was – vriendelijk gezegd – niet altijd evident (tenzij men vroeger op de Balkan in kleine secunden en nonen zong, want mij niet waarschijnlijk lijkt), maar Hartig verdedigde het werk vurig, ze speelde intens en vol bezieling en soms met een fabelachtig pianissimo dat bijna werd overstemd door het zachte ruisen der blaadjes. Alleen heel goede musici nemen dergelijke risico’s tijdens een openluchtconcert, en tot die categorie behoort Hartig dus zeker.

Hartig made it clear that the classically played violin holds no secrets for her, while dressed in black with bright purple pumps she also manifested herself as a pop star.

The concert of violinist Julia Hartig and pianist Reineke Brookhans, held at Bemus, was equally colored by intimate and subtle emotions and expressive musical dialogues. The repertoire, partly composed as a tribute to the violinist herself, represented a kind of musical autobiography that Hartigova shaped together with composers from Serbia and the Netherlands, where she lives and works. The special guest of the evening was cellist Maja Bogdanović.

U okviru BEMUS-a biće izvedeni i specijalni programi posvećeni savremenim srpskim kompozitorima (Orkestar Opere i teatra "Madlenianum", dirigent Dejan Savić), izvornoj muzici (selektorka Mirjana Drobac), horskoj duhovnoj muzici (Hor RTS, dirigent Vladimir Gorbik) i autorsko veče nedavno preminulog kompozitora Zorana Erića, nekadašnjeg umetničkog direktora BEMUS-a (Ansambl Metamorfozis, umetničko vođstvo Saša Mirković), a program posvećen delima Isidore Žebeljan će izvoditi violinistkinja Julija Hartig i pijanistkinja Rajneke Brukhans.

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Ulaznice

Julija Hartig is festivalvioliste van de 7e editie. Zij presenteert naast dit huisconcert de acht topstrijkers van haar Amsterdam based Roctet in De Thomaskerk op donderdag 12 september. Zij sluit het festival af met Reineke Broekhans, de geweldige pianiste waarmee zij de Edison Klassiek 2023 won, en Oorkaan Ensemble in de Vondelkerk op zondag 15 september.