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.![Isabelle Faust]()
Violinist Isabelle Faust. Photo by Marco Borggreve.Isabelle Faust performed Ondrej Adámeks violin concerto "Follow Me" with the London Symphony Orchestra.Chouchane Siranossian performed works by Vivaldi, Veracini, Tartini and Locatelli with the Venice Baroque Orchestra in Coral Gables, Fla.
The Junction Trio performed in recital at 92NY.
Violinist Isabelle Faust. Photo by Marco Borggreve.
- The Guardian: "Faust delivered the hugely demanding solo writing with her usual virtuosity and total commitment, her phrasing as honeyed and supple as it might have been in a more familiar work."
- Bach Track: "The violin part, filled with whirling scales and fractured arpeggios, certainly requires a performer with the virtuosity and frantic energy of Josefowicz to do it full justice."
- Bach Track: "...he plays like an absolute angel, caressing the strings like crushed silk to turn the middle movement of Aram Khachaturians Violin Concerto into an Armenian lullaby."
- South Florida Classical Review: "The violins pyrotechnics (in Tartini's Concerto in A Major) suggest the high-jinks of Paganini a century later and Siranossian dashed them off with devilish verve."
- Bach Track: "In last nights recital, the extent of the intimacy between them was clear for all to see: here were two people with complete musical knowledge of each other being simply happy to be in a room playing for their friends the Platonic ideal of chamber music."
- The Times: "It wasnt surprising, I suppose, that the Spanish soloist often burnished the solo line with Iberian sparkle and fire, but this didnt help the concertos dark Nordic profile."
- Blog Critics: "...one could imagine that violinist Stefan Jackiw, cellist Jay Campbell, and pianist Conrad Tao did little else but woodshed and concertize together...The three formed the Junction Trio almost a decade ago, but with their busy and eclectic individual careers they dont appear as such all that often."
- Washington Classical Review: "Not surprisingly for a group still in their 20s, some dubious interpretive decisions were in evidence, alongside some exquisitely unified playing."
- Boston Musical Intelligencer: "The Jerusalem Quartet took the Celebrity Series Jordan Hall audience on an exhilarating high-octane ride that started and ended with Haydn."
- Boston Classical Review: "... despite the nights sometimes edgy production, the ensembles command of their repertoires spirit and character felt, on the whole, unfailingly correct."
- San Francisco Classical Voice: "...he brandished it with a pure, thick tone quality, not much vibrato, sustained emotional legatos in the second movement, and just enough technical mastery to ride through the thorny traps that Sibelius sets in the finale."
- The Week in Reviews, Op. 473: Maria Dueñas; Philippe Quint; Anne Akiko Meyers
- The Week in Reviews, Op. 472: Patricia Kopatchinskaja; Paul Huang; Augustin Hadelich
- The Week in Reviews, Op. 471: Gil Shaham; Karen Gomyo; Patricia Kopatchinskaja
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