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.![Christian Tetzlaff]()
Violinist Christian Tetzlaff. Photo by Giorgia-Bertazzi.Christian Tetzlaff performed Edward Elgars violin concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at BBC Prom 51.
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein performed Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.Mostly Mozart Festival performed its last-ever concerts at Lincoln Center.
Violinist Christian Tetzlaff. Photo by Giorgia-Bertazzi.
- The Guardian: "...it was a masterly performance. The concentrated tension, always the hallmark of Tetzlaffs playing, never flagged. Control of dynamics was particularly impressive, well matched by a responsive Oramo. Big moments were emphatically but never theatrically done. In the most intimate passages at the heart of Elgars concerto, above all in the cadenza near the end, Tetzlaffs tone was a gossamer whisper."
- Cleveland.com: "Lamsma isnt a showy performer or big personality. Where others move all about and display their virtuosity, she stands largely still, channeling all her abundant talent, focus, and passion into the music. The result Saturday was pure magnetism."
- Cincinnati Business Journal: "Torkes 'Sky' was a scintillating work, and perfectly tailored to Larks artistry...Lark tore up the stage with her fiddling and climbed mountains of technical challenges like a breath of fresh air....for an encore, she dazzled even more with an improvisation that she had just invented...a showstopper full of technical feats and bluegrass licks. She called it 'Ysaÿe Shuffle.'"
- WTTW: "Elgars 'Cello Concerto,' in a fiery performance by Alisa Weilerstein, begins with the cello sounding an anguished, painful cry, with the soloist then joined by the low strings."
- Los Angeles Times: "'Attention!' is not really a concerto. Thile sings much of the time, but this is hardly a formal song cycle either...Call it a ramble. Ramble Thile does. And noodle. And fool around. He makes us laugh. He has a sentimental side, and a snarky one. His narration is all over the map and often incoherent. This is not the Thile who can make Bach arresting on the mandolin but rather turns more to his, and the mandolins, bluegrass roots as well as jazz."
- The New Yorker: "Its especially bizarre that Lincoln Center has put together so few classical events this past year, following Geffens reopening after an extensive renovation. The audience is out there: the final two Mostly Mozart concerts were packed."
- The Berkshire Edge: "It helped that Kavakos fully appreciated the big picture and never stopped the flow to call attention to himselfunless the music actually required that. His demeanor always showed his engagement with what the orchestra was playing, and he handed over the musical line to them visibly, especially when it was taken over by the first violins."
- The Week in Reviews, Op. 414: Leonidas Kavakos; Patricia Kopatchinskaja; Isabelle Faust
- The Week in Reviews, Op. 413: Anne Akiko Meyers, Augustin Hadelich, Gil Shaham, Randall Goosby
- The Week in Reviews, Op. 412: Vadim Gluzman; Hilary Hahn; Joshua Bell; David Kim
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