The Red Violin cd: BBC Magazine's
"North American CD of the Month"
"This programme demands interpretive and dynamic flexibility of exceptional sensitivity and Maria Bachmann proves more than equal to the task with a range of tonal shadings and exquisite bow- work that ensures these coruscating scores tingle with life and energy ...thrilling abandon that never compromises absolute technical command."
-BBC Music Magazine May 2007 ***** Performance ***** Sound


" Innovative programming and exuberant playing.....a confident performer and thoughtful artist, Bachmann explodes into (Ariel Fantasy) with vibrant bowstrokes ....she has an affinity for the spicy, fast-paced and bluesy elements in music...equally profound and sultry."
-Gramaphone Magazine Oct 2007

“Maria Bachmann gives a ravishing performance of my Red Violin Chaconne! Maria is an aristocratic marvel. She has a perfect technique, but more importantly, she understands how to tell music to an audience so that they understand what the composer really had in mind. This is a rare gift. ”
- John Corigliano

"Bachmann and Klibonoff play with electrifying energy and crisp articulation. The duo achieves a tour-de-force in the Ravel Sonata Blues Movement....even the listener works up a sweat. In Corigliano's Red Violin Chaconne, Bachmann favors its enraptured darker side....she brings the piece to an overpowering conclusion."
-Fanfare Magazine (July/August 2007)

Just In.....
"Philip Glass Appears on final concert of Telluride MusicFest"
"...it is obvious that she (Maria Bachmann) is a supremely gifted player. The fact she is Hungarian performing the music
of a countryman will add something special to the Kodaly. You will hear what I am talking about in the richness of her phrasing and the depth of her melodic line."
-Philip Glass, Telluride Daily Planet June 12, 2008

Music Review: Vivaldi Concertos at Zankel Hall
"Vivaldi's Violin Concerto in D minor (RV 248) and the Concerto in
B flat (RV 363, “Il Corneto da Posta”) were both performed with virtuoso flair and striking energy by the fiery violinist Maria Bachmann. "
The New York Times, June 6, 2008

“By far the most exciting young violinist around”
- New York Daily News

“A rare violinist….she embraces a wide variety of styles with absolute confidence…..crisply lean, warmly lyrical, and unexpectedly sensuous”
- The New York Times

“Astonishing in every musical and technical regard”
- Boston Globe

“A violinist of soul and patrician refinement”
- The New York Times

“Musical in everything she touches...wonderfully evocative, beautifully executed, and filled with energy.”
- Washington Post

“Brilliant instrumental command”
- Billboard Magazine

“ …a performing style that revisits a sweet-scented immediacy more typical of previous generations…a bright, winsome tone and a heart-warming manner”
- Gramaphone ( U.K.)

“A first-class violinist with a lively musical mind - her accuracy of intonation and pliant control over dynamics in the extreme high range is astonishing”
- Boston Globe

“One of Bachmann’s gifts is the ability to make new works sound familiar, and familiar works seem new....a talent to be prized.....ravishing, and unusually picturesque.”
- The New York Times

“It was clear that Bachmann has the expressive capacity, the poise and technical wherewithal to be placed among a very select group of musicians...extraordinary refinement in everything she played….a seamless, flowing lyricism and an unusually silken tone.”
- Los Angeles Times

“Lean, intense, stylish and compelling.”
- New York Daily News

“Bachmann’s sound is strong and sagely varied, her technique admirably facile and immaculate, and all of her playing is marked by intelligent musicianship.”
- Strad Magazine

“Bachmann’s splendid, unostentatious technique always serves the music; she plays with complete emotional involvement and a natural, intense expressiveness; the enchanting purity of her tone makes the music float and soar....”
- Classical Pulse

“ Haunting be may a much used word when describing violin virtuosos but it’s an accurate description of the sound of Maria Bachmann.”
- Classic CD

“Bachmann performed with passion, elegance, dreamy violinistic lyricism, and virtuosic abandon.”
- The Baltimore Sun

“It’s not often that a new artist, particularly a violinist, make such a stunningly original debut….poised and clear virtuosity.”
- L.A. Village View

“Unlike most recording artists, Bachmann can actually simulate the perfection of a recording in an inspired live performance. Her playing was absolutely flawless: consistent note accuracy with incredible intonation, and no rough edges to her sound...she is one of the finest recitalists today.”
- New York Concert Review

“In the Corigliano Red Violin Concerto, Bachmann nailed the work which is a sort of demonstration of everything and anything the violin can do.”
- Omaha World Herald

“Bachmann has a vivid imagination and subtle ear...
a real musical protagonist.”
- Richmond Times- Dispatch

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