02-07-2018 Fanfare
"I have nothing but enthusiasm for this release, and I look forward to getting to know this violinist’s work better. In an era dominated by conservatory-trained bots, she is the real thing."
29-06-2018 Audio.de
"The Dutch violinist Liza ferschtman manages to do this with sovereign and unforced playing, which emphasizes the immense beauty of this music in a classically balanced way.
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17-05-2018 The Strad
"Here again, Ferschtman takes a subtly shaded approach, the brilliance and energy of her performance thoroughly compelling. The moments when the texture clears and the solo violin emerges alone are particularly entrancing, and Ferschtman’s artistry and flair never falter."
11-05-2018 Gramophone
"All concerned respond to its moods with the utmost sensitivity, evoking the Symposium's varieties of love with a refinement that eludes bigger names and might have surprised the composer too. Ferschtman's intonation is well-nigh flawless."
25-04-2018 Concerto
"Again, though, Ferschtman's playing makes the most of its strengths, eloquent, flexible and fleet-fingered."
06-04-2018 Pizzicato
"These are straightforded, well-paced performances that are eminently serviceable for both works. Soloist Liza Ferschtman playing is elaborated and technically accurate.
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01-04-2018 Amadeus Magazine
"Her account is impassioned. Her great technical accuracy joins to a driving expressivity, in a travel among endless colour nuances"
19-03-2018 JazzFlits
"An entertaining duel of violin and percussion. That has never been shown in de Doelen."
28-02-2018 Opus Klassiek
"What seems to be incompatible is masterfully combined: that not only applies to Liza Ferschtman, but also to recording technician and editor Bert van der Wolf, who has made a harmonious whole of two incompatible recording spaces."
20-02-2018 NRC Handelsblad
"****
Liza Ferschtman sharply captures the character of the two concerts: the creamy mercy of Korngold with the Prague Symphony Orchestra under Jirí Malát and Bernstein's intense dialogues about the love she has with the Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Christian Vásquez. The violinist does what she can do best: painting colors with great musicality, evoking images and telling stories."
05-02-2018 Musicalifeiten
"She keeps a clear statement with great care for details and adds more than a shred of extra inner meaning to the more meditative music ...
The fact that Korngold's Violin Concerto also sounds colorful and pretty passionate in all its bitterness, is trusted to Liza Ferchtman and makes this publication a deserved success."
02-02-2018 Mania
"Again a beautiful album by Liza Ferschtman that you should not miss."
19-01-2018 Luister
"It brought him and us The Serenade to Plato's Symposium, musical dialogues about the beautiful and dark sides of love. The Gelders Orkest and violinist Liza Ferschtman opened the Bernstein year in the Netherlands with this masterpiece."
17-01-2018 Het Parool
"Violinist Liza Ferschtman shows with the Serenade another side of the composer in het Muziekgebouw."
30-12-2017 Het Parool
"The best music of 2017 according to our reviewers - Erik Voermans
5. Mendelssohn-Vioolconcert, Octet, Het Gelders Orkest en Liza Ferschtman, Challenge Records
Violinist Liza Ferschtman had to crowdfunden to make the CD, but the result is exquisite. Her interpretation of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with Het Gelders Orkest conducted by Kees Bakels is one of the most beautiful ones. Pure chamber music; the triumph of listening music without grease and false sentiment."
14-06-2017 Kerk en leven
"Ferschtman does not perform the work from 1838-1844 as the heavyweight dialogue, but chooses a light-hearted approach."
06-05-2017 Gramophone
"It is heart-warming to find Ferschtman's own revivifying thoughts borne out by the special qualities of her musicmaking"
02-05-2017 Planet Hugill
"A freshness of approach to Mendelsssohn's concerto combines with a fizzing account of the octet.
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14-04-2017 Kerk en Leven
"Ferschtman and her team do not play it with a smile, because it happens to be a piece from a famous composer, but do play spicy and full of power."
06-04-2017 De Groene Amsterdammer
"In the first few bars, forcing intimately, you will get tears in your eyes, Ferschtman puts it so focused and free; the instrument is singing along with what it hears."
03-04-2017 Music Web International
"If you love these pieces then this should raise a healthy smile, and if you have been keenly awaiting another Ferschtman disc then the concerto in particular is a real treat."
28-03-2017 Klassieke zaken
"They play this incredible work by brilliant teenager Felix Mendelssohn with intense energy and enthusiasm that hits the listener immediately."
06-03-2017 Luister
"" (...) She is beloved by her audience and managed to finance her newest album with crowdfunding (...) ""
12-02-2017 The Guardian
"These Dutch musicians treat the piece as a chamber work, the cut-down forces of the Het Gelders Orkest giving light and airy support to Liza Ferschtman’s carefully judged, singing solo line."
10-01-2017 Het Parool
"Ferschtman places herself with this recording without a doubt alongside or even above more famous colleagues who have already made a recording of the violin concerto. The result is very, very impressive. Maybe this is due to the fact that the 37-year-old played this concert already when she was only 15 years old."
09-01-2017 HR Audio
"This is not a ‘salon’ performance, it is music making of the highest order. It’s unreservedly irresistible!"
01-07-2015 Gramophone
"["].. With Liza Ferschtman it's a balanced programme that places Baroque music alongside 20th-century works; for Tamsin Waley-Cohen it's the starting point for a survey of more recent solo violin music."
" [...]Ferschtman's finely expressinve phrasing"
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04-08-2014 AMATI.com
"She finds sounds and interpretative insights so contrasting across her four stratlingly diverse pieces that you'd swear she wasn't alone.
It's a remarable disc, profound in its insights and searing in its sincerity."
