: "The music sounded at times like a symphony, at times like a music in a nightclub, at times like a choral mass, at times like a violin cadenza, at times like a jazz solo.He was anything but a thunderstealer he was a soloist who made everyone around him sound better."Īnne Akiko Meyers performed with the Los Angeles Master Chorale in the world premiere of Billy Childs' "In the Arms of the Beloved." Louis American: "His opening tone (on his 1708 Stradivarius) was so deep and woody that it was like hearing a violin for the first time.As a soloist, Goosby's performance was ensemble-oriented. Randall Goosby performed Korngold's Violin Concerto in D major with the St. In softer, quieter moments, her tone was pure silk." Her playing, intensely focused and perfectly polished, had an almost aristocratic bearing. Thursday, the concerto was cleanly played but almost devoid of energy.The Japanese-born, New York-educated violinist unspooled (Beethoven’s Romance in F) with unfailing elegance and warmth. Arts ATL: "Despite the efforts of violinists as esteemed and serious as Midori, Schumann’s concerto lacks coherence and has few of the lyrical and harmonic strengths celebrated throughout the composer’s body of work.Midori performed Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto and Beethoven’s Romance in F with Festival Strings Lucerne at Emory University. Quiet moments emerged like beautiful whispers that evaporated as they tapered off, and he sounded more at ease in stepwise passages than leaping ones." New York Times: "The violinist Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider’s solo playing, decisive in bold passages and tender in soft ones, sometimes turned brittle.Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider performed Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic. Washington Classical Review: "Violinists (and brothers) Daniel Phillips and Todd Phillips, violist Steven Tenenbom, and cellist Timothy Eddy made Sunday’s concert into a celebration of the transcendence that can happen when four skilled musicians play with near-telepathic communication and common purpose.".The Orion String Quartet gave one of its final performances at Wolf Trap. Mountain Lake PBS: "With impeccable ease, precision, luminosity, and brilliance of the high notes, from the dazzling initial cadence to the expressive folkloric themed finale, Dueñas captivated the audience with eloquence and regal resonance.".Maria Dueñas performed Johan Halvorsen's recently-discovered Violin Concerto, Op. In guttural passages, she indicated Britten’s intentions without compromising her ability to return to lyricism." With her understated legato and handsomely voiced harmonies, she made things sound easy. New York Times: "Alena Baeva, making her Philharmonic debut, played the piece with assertive beauty and vibrato so quick, at times, that it seemed to disappear.In between came transfixing playing from Baeva, rendered with searing intensity and purity of tone." New York Classical Review: "It is.a work of contrasts, with the violinist asked to play at the far reaches of its range, from the eerie false harmonics that end the first movement to trills played on the lowest string of the instrument in its final measures.Alena Baeva performed Benjamin Britten's Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic.
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