By Laurie Niles: In an effort to promote the coverage of live violin performance, Violinist.com each week presents links to reviews of notable concerts and recitals around the world.![Stefan Jackiw]()
Violinist Stefan Jackiw.Stefan Jackiw performed Brittens Violin Concerto with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.The JACK Quartet performed works by Liza Lim at the Miller Theater at Columbia University.Midori performed Korngold's Violin Concerto with the Buffalo Philharmonic.
Violinist Stefan Jackiw.
- The Scotsman: "The American violinist Stefan Jackiw had its full measure, his playing style calm and confident, yet packed with such powerful and perceptive musicality that every gesture, every paragraph was meaningful and emotive. Most of all, he had the intellectual stamina to sustain attention to the very final utterance."
- The Herald: "As for the demands on the violin soloist, those are considerable and American Stefan Jackiw is a player of prodigious talent who has something of the showman about him as well. The fast second movement ends with a virtuosic cadenza of many contrasts and technical challenges, which he revelled in, and the work has a long dying fall, full of bent, bluesy notes that he played with expressive zeal. An encore of Bach was the icing on the cake."
- Edinburgh Guide.com: " The Orchestra left him to it many a time and it was exciting to watch, really exciting....He introduced his much deserved and calming J. S. Bach Largo encore with the same clear charming confidence he had shown at the pre-concert talk."
- Arkansas Democrat Gazette: "Pouliot was absolutely spellbinding in Max Bruch's "Scottish Fantasy". His stage presence was only the beginning; he assayed the piece's complex demands brilliantly, playing with both motion and emotion."
- The Guardian: "The concerto received a committed and accomplished performance from Benedetti, whose playing combines soaring lyrical sweetness with muscular confidence. It is a work as intriguing and evocative as it is approachable, even if at first hearing the shift into the light in the closing bars doesnt quite convince."
- The New York Times: "...ghostly ensemble textures for the entire quartet were the highlight. At times, the group seemed to fall in lock step, cohering around a mechanical Minimalism. But while keeping the hushed dynamics steady, Lim bent individual string lines away from the expected polyphonic patterns."
- LA Times: "Others will take up the Second Violin Concerto, but it is pure Mutter in a way that none of the other concertos written for her (such as the great one by Witold Lutoslawski) are."
- Green Valley News: "Meyers was more than up to the challenge with enough runs and arpeggios flashing off her bow and her 1741 Guarneri instrument to sail to Hermosillo."
- Buffalo Rising: "Midori plays quietly but in Kleinhans (Music Hall), you could hear every note. More importantly, her very presence seemed to inspire the orchestra to greater heights."
- Broadway World Michigan: "Sarah is one of those string players that you couldn't take your eyes off the whole time she was on stage. She was able to capture the emotion of the piece in her facial expressions both when she was playing and in between."
- The Week in Reviews, Op. 371: Indianapolis Violin Competition Finalists; Joshua Bell; Randall Goosby; Augustin Hadelich
- The Week in Reviews, Op. 370: Anne Akiko Meyers; Colin Jacobson; Nemanja Radulovic
- The Week in Reviews, Op. 369: Vadim Gluzman; Randall Goosby; Anne-Sophie Mutter
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