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.![Julia Fischer]()
Violinist Julia Fischer.Julia Fischer performed Schumanns Violin Concerto in D Minor with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.Blake Pouliot performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra (subbing at the last minute for Philippe Quint).Calin Ovidiu Lupanu performed Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Charlotte Symphony.
Violinist Julia Fischer.
- WTTW News: "(Conductor Riccardo Muti and Fischer shared an ideal sense of how to interpret this immensely challenging concerto with its vivid mood changes and technical demands that Fischer finessed with seeming ease."
- Chicago Classical Review: "Fischer stepped up to claim the audiences full attentionthis despite Schumann not providing the soloist with a motto for a memorable first entrance. Fischer nevertheless played with a gorgeous singing tone in lyrical passages, enhanced by the yearning, dark quality of her instruments lowest register. Double stops on perfect intervals pealed with precise intonation. Drama infused the hushed moments."
- Violinist.com: "Lamsma...commanded an arresting attention from the audience within seconds of drawing that first long, rich "G" from the 1718 "Mlynarski" Stradivarius violin she was playing. "
- Arts Knoxville: "Pouliot approached this popular, oft-played concerto with an intelligent plan: start with simple, unadorned beauty of tone, adding in vocal-like accents of phrasing that define the melodic narrative, then end with an exciting tempo born of energy."
- Orlando Weekly: "...his elfin exuberance while dexterously executing the notoriously difficult cadenza (sans seat or sheet music) earned the evening's first of several standing ovations."
- Broadway World Charlotte: "His command was certainly impressive throughout the opening Allegro moderato, with a transition to the slow middle movement that was amorously smooth."
- theartsdesk.com: "Pritchin gave a calm sensitivity to Brahmss Violin Sonata No. 2, with a tender, singing tone and remarkably sophisticated double stopping."
- The Herald: "...this was an entirely different sound world, the soloist and ensemble using gut strings, and the warmth of their rich tone teamed with a poise and precision in their phrasing....(Pritchin's) first movement cadenza was full of emotional and dynamic range, and he settled into a relaxed conversation with the winds in the Adagio before the expressive gypsy dance of the finale, in which the instruction ma non troppo vivace was meticulously obeyed."
- The Week in Reviews, Op. 388: Robert McDuffie; Maria Dueñas; Aisslinn Nosky
- The Week in Reviews, Op. 387: Emerson String Quartet; Rachel Barton Pine; Joshua Bell
- The Week in Reviews, Op. 386: Ilya Gringolts; Anne-Sophie Mutter; Alexander Sitkovetsky
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