• Willem Tanke started teaching organ as a main subject again, at Rotterdam Conservatoire
• Willem Tanke's SuperAudioCD Meditations for a lent worldwide distributed
'He adds the sounds made by an Indian woodblock and a bell of the sort carried by griots, as story-tellers are known in west Africa...This recording will be at the top of my critic's choice list for the year. I believe it may be the most important recording I've reviewed for ARG. Tanke wrote that he intended to explore the direction music is headed in the 21st Century. If that be so, I am excited about where it is going' (Richard Blakely, American Record Guide)
• 2 DVD set with organ works by Olivier Messiaen issued in over 40 countries
...an essential purchase for all organ aficionados (Classical Music.ie)
• Remastered edition of complete organ works by Olivier Messiaen on 8 CDs
With virtuoso lightness, unfailing timing and inexhaustible wealth of colours, Tanke opens up Messiaen's heaven...his interpretations touch the heart through the organist's peace of mind and sensitivity...this collection is a milestone in the Messiaen discography and a great moment in his organ music. (Miquel Cabruja, klassik.com)
'This new set by Willem Tanke is most certainly Messiaenic heaven to me, and has placed the music far closer to my heart than any of the previous sets. This recent release is as close to perfect as I think I will find' (Simon Fitzgerald, The Organ)