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.Anne Akiko Meyers performed Arturo Márquez's "Fandango" Violin Concerto with the San Diego Symphony.Amaryn Olmeda performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra.
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Violinist Midori. Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.
Midori performed the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.Clik here to view.
Violinist Midori. Photo by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.
- The Boston Musical Intelligencer: "It was a true pleasure to see Midori illuminate the hall and the new year with her violin and her glowing musical spirit. She excelled both in virtuosic passages of fast runs and double-stops, as well as caressing melodies of the utmost preciousness."
- Cincinnati Business Journal: "Hadelich gave a performance that balanced deeply interior playing and searing virtuosity. He produced a gorgeous tone in the lament-like melody which opened the piece, ending with ethereal harmonics high in the stratosphere of his instrument."
- The Post and Courier: "It was a soul-fortifying, smashing success, this convergence of conductor, soloist and symphony to galvanize a performance hall into a transcendent, cathartic experience."
- San Diego Story: "...Meyers dazzling technical facility expressed through a sharply focused sonority that sports a gleaming upper register, brilliantly communicated Márquezs three movement Fandango....Meyers tossed off bravura flourishes that elaborated and extended the orchestras more lithe phrases."
- EarRelevant: "...the orchestra presented a visceral, painterly description of each season, with (concertmaster) Coucherons solo violin a rhetorical narrative running through and over each scene."
- Utah Arts Review: "With smooth, songful phrasing, the soloist also brought rich interpretive depth to the sweet double-stopped harmonies of 'Auld Robb Morris' and the poignant yearning of 'Im a Doun for Lack o Johnnie.'"
- The Daily Journal: "Her clear and plain-spoken playing style is crisp, emphatic and with a well-textured tone. She puts forth the concerto without mannerisms or affectation but also with charm and a compelling thrust that keeps the music thrilling."
- theartsdesk.com: "The trio, who have been together for just over five years, are part of Radio 3s New Generation Artists scheme and dispatched the repertoire with an intensity and expressive range that was often as beguiling as it was exhilarating."
- The Week in Reviews, Op. 381: Lisa Batiashvili; Gil Shaham; Hilary Hahn
- The Week in Reviews, Op. 380: Itzhak Perlman; Hilary Hahn; Christian Tetzlaff; Leonidas Kavakos
- The Week in Reviews, Op. 379: cellist Gautier Capucon; Colin Jacobsen; Noah Bendix-Balgley
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