Press
05.05.2018
Review: Baltimore Sun/ Baltimore Symphony/ Marin Alsop/Bernstein
BSO delivers bracing Bernstein program with Benedetti, Alsop ..The superb, Scottish-born violinist Nicola Benedetti, in her BSO debut, delivered the solo part with a sweet, but penetrating, tone and a keen sense of the music’s rich character. Tim Smith The Baltimore Sun Some anniversaries in the classical music world go by barely noticed. You are […]
16.04.2018
Seen and Heard International: Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio / Vancouver
A Very Satisfying Debut for the Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio 16/04/2018 Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio (c) Jane Lawrence Schubert – Notturno for Piano Trio in E-flat major D897 Brahms – Piano Trio in C major Op.87 Turnage – Duetti d’Amore for cello and violin Ravel – Piano Trio in A minor Celebrated British violinist Nicola […]
04.04.2018
Interview: Vancouver Sun, Trio Canadian debut
Nicola Benedetti, one of Vancouver’s favourite violinists, returns Sunday to play for the Vancouver Recital Society with two musical friends in tow: cellist Leonard Elschenbroich and pianist Alexei Grynyuk. The Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio offers an extraordinarily rich program at the Vancouver Playhouse on the afternoon of April 8, its Canadian debut. Benedetti was born […]
Review: Independent , USA OAE
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Delivers Thrilling Performance By Charles Donelan This small, conductor-less orchestra with the long name — Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) — delivered what was unquestionably one of the CAMA International Series season’s most thrilling performances at the Granada on February 13. Led from the concertmaster’s chair by […]
05.02.2018
Review: OAE/ Alsop/ Beethoven ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Backtrack Rebellious Beethoven from Nicola Benedetti, Marin Alsop and the OAE It was Robert Schumann who called Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony “a slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants”. Nestling between the revolutionary Eroica and the Fifth’s hammer blows of Fate, the sunny Fourth is no shrinking violet, a little minx brimming with Haydnesque wit. […]
Review: Beethoven Violin Concerto/Dallas Symphony Orchestra/Donald Runnicles
Beethoven Violin Concerto/Dallas Symphony Orchestra/Donald Runnicles Review: The Dallas Morning News January 20, 2018 A guest conductor much respected by DSO musicians, the Scotsman Donald Runnicles, was on the podium Thursday night. He brought with him an unusual program, in an unusual order: two of the overtures Beethoven composed for his sole opera, originally called […]
