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Label Challenge Classics |
UPC 0608917263527 |
Catalogue number CC 72635 |
Release date 07 April 2014 |
""Then I got the invitation to fill five concerts in the line Zielsverwanten. Enormous luxury!""
Het Parool, 01-10-2016Dutch violinist Liza Ferschtman is known for her passionate performances, interesting programs and communicative qualities on stage. She is equally at home on the concert stage with concertos, chamber music, recitals and solo works. In 2006 she received the highest accolade awarded to a musician in the Netherlands, the Dutch Music Prize.
Born into a family of Russian musicians, Liza Ferschtman was constantly surrounded by music.
One of her earliest major influences was the violinist Philipp Hirschhorn, a close family friend. She received her formal training from Herman Krebbers at the Amsterdam Conservatory, Ida Kavafian at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and David Takeno in London.
In recent years Liza Ferschtman has performed with all significant Dutch Orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw and the Rotterdam Philhamonic. She has been soloist of the Orchestre National de Belgique, European Union Youth Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic, Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, Bremen Philharmonic, Radio Symphony Orchestra of Prague, Malmö Symphony, and Bergen Philharmonic. Conductors she has worked with include Stephan Blunier, Frans Bruggen, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Claus Peter Flor, Neeme Järvi, Yakov Kreizberg, Zdenek Macal, Jun Maerkl, Gianandrea Noseda, Marc Soustrot, Leonard Slatkin, Thomas Sondergard, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Mario Venzago and Jaap van Zweden.
An avid chamber musician, Ms. Ferschtman has collaborated regularly with artists such as Inon Barnatan, Jonathan Biss, Nobuko Imai, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Enrico Pace, Christian Poltera, Lars Anders Tomter and Alisa Weilerstein. In addition to appearances at numerous international Chamber Music festivals, she has performed at venues such as the Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Library of Congress in Washington, Wigmore Hall in London, the Brahms Saal at the Vienna Musikverein, as well the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Liza Ferschtman has been the artistic director of the Delft Chamber Music Festival since 2007, one of the reputable festivals in Europe. During her tenure the festival has become widely known for adventurous programming with dynamic performances by artists from around the globe.
Highlights in the past season were the performance of the complete solo works by Bach in Amsterdam and a concert tour to Budapest, Amsterdam, New York and Montréal with the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Playing under the baton of Iván Fischer, Ms. Ferschtman received outstanding reviews for her rendition of Bernstein's "Serenade" with this orchestra.
During the current season Liza Ferschtman is scheduled to make her debuts with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Essen, the Staatskapelle Weimar and the Flanders Symphony Orchestra. She will perform chamber music at the Liederhalle in Stuttgart and the Beethoven Haus in Bonn and will be present in the Netherlands with several recitals.
Ms. Ferschtman's recording of the Beethoven Concerto and Romances was received with great critical acclaim, as well as her other recordings with concertos by Dvorak, Röntgen, solo works by Bach and Ysaye, (STRAD CD choice of the month), and duo works by Beethoven and Schubert. Her next CD will be solo works by Bach, Biber, Bartok and Berio (Challenge Classics).
"Then I got the invitation to fill five concerts in the line Zielsverwanten. Enormous luxury!"
Het Parool, 01-10-2016
["].. 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"
Gramophone, 01-7-2015
"Four solo works for soloists, which Liza Ferschtman demonstrates that she is one of the best violinists of today"
Mania, 08-8-2014
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.
AMATI.com, 04-8-2014
"It's a remarkable disc, profound in its insights and searing its sincerity."
Amati.com, 04-8-2014
I have no hesitation - the former is absolutely amazing fiddeling!
Early Music Review, 01-8-2014
This bold, ingenious set, juxtaposing works by two giants of the high baroque with two giants of the 20th century, reveals a plyer of deep insight, intesity and imagination.
Sunday Times, 20-7-2014
Four solo works for soloists, where Liza Ferschtman demonstrates that she is one of the best violinists of today.
Platomania, 29-5-2014
As a complete recital this album convinces because Ferschtman is placing these four B's under an overarching tensioncurve. Violinist Tunisian sovereignty summit. Violinist sovereignty all over
De Telegraaf, 13-5-2014
An impressive recital in which four works from the literature for solo violin come alive
Opus Klassiek, 01-5-2014
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Musicalifeiten, 18-4-2014
"The CD provides a versatile and complete picture of Ferschtman; she combines strength of feeling and technical perfection of musical intensity"
Luister
"The former is absolutely amazing fiddling!"
Early Music Review