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.![Liza Ferschtman]()
Violinist Liza Ferschtman.Liza Ferschtman performed Alban Berg's Violin Concerto with the Boston Philharmonic and Benjamin Zander.
Violist Tabea Zimmermann performed music of Michael Jarrell and Carl Maria von Weber with the Utah Symphony.Bomsori Kim performed Carl Nielsens Violin Concerto with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Lan Shui.
Violinist Liza Ferschtman.
- The Boston Musical Intelligencer: "Putting aside its numbers, puzzles, and tone rows, audiences have loved this concerto for its emotional intensity. Soloist Liza Ferschtman understood and communicated its power."
- The Arts Fuse: "Playing with rich tone and bracing focus, Ferschtman dispatched the solo part with blistering intensity. The first movements lyrical, dancing figurations were all well directed, while the finales violent opening pages seethed. Meantime, its culminating, mellifluous episodes soared."
- The Boston Musical Intelligencer: "Kuusistos capricious character shape-shifted every aspect of the outing with an ease of virtuosity rarely seen in action. The violin served simply as a medium for expression; every line and articulation brimmed with elasticity as this great storyteller spun his tales."
- Utah Arts Review: "Zimmermann gave a compelling account (of Michael Jarrell's 'Émergences-Résurgences', playing with forceful energy in the tutti sections, and with subtly crafted, lyrical phrasings in the solo passages."
- Washington Classical Review: "'Kinski Paganini,' the second piece Mazzoli wrote for Koh, offered a brief burst of fresh air. With no straitjacketing recorded track, the violinist discharged the virtuosic multi-string challenges with refreshing vivacity."
- The Straits Times: "Opening with a huge orchestral exclamation, the soloist immediately has an extended virtuoso passage, accompanied by a long, single note on the horn. It was all that Kim needed to establish herself as a top-tier soloist, with excellent tone production, boundless energy and a hunger to express herself musically."
- The Week in Reviews, Op. 437: Thomas Lee Cooper, Joshua Bell, Beo String Quartet
- The Week in Reviews, Op. 436: Vadim Gluzman, Esther Yoo, Hilary Hahn
- The Week in Reviews, Op. 435: Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas; Alexi Kenney; Randall Goosby
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