The Week in Reviews, Op. 506: Jeremy Black; Joshua Bell; Takács Quartet

July 2, 2025, 12:34 AM · 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. Click on the highlighted links to read the entire reviews.

Violinist Jeremy Black.

Jeremy Black performed Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with the Grant Park Orchestra.

Chicago Classical Review: "Black’s pure, luminous tone fell gratefully on the ears throughout. He consistently drew out Mendelssohn’s lilting lyricism with an individual touch of rubato, as with a beguiling rendering of the Andante."

Joshua Bell performed works by Beethoven, Brahms and Gabriel Fauré with pianist Peter Dugan at Minnesota Beethoven Festival.

The Minnesota Star Tribune: "(Joshua Bell) and Dugan proved remarkably simpatico collaborators while squeezing every drop of romantic fervor from sonatas by Johannes Brahms and Gabriel Fauré before Bell reasserted his place among the pantheon of historic violin virtuosos with awe-inspiring encores from the pens of Henryk Wieniawski and Pablo de Sarasate."

The Takács Quartet performed at the Music Academy of the West at the Santa Barbara Lobero.

Santa Barbara Independent: "Shifting idiomatic and historical gears nimbly from Haydn’s supple classicism through Czech master Leoš Janácek’s modernist slalom and Beethoven’s dramatic sweep, the quartet projected a fluid mastery of the material. Spaces between notes, a sense of collective breath and virtuosic release, and a general, intuitive feel for structural pace and nuance were hallmarks of the Lobero concert."

Andrey Baranov performed in recital with pianist Andrey Gugnin for the Cape Town Concert Series.

Weekend Special: "The range of colours of the entire recital was extraordinary. The depth of feeling was extraordinary. "

Gil Shaham and Adele Anthony performed the Bach Double and Avner Dorman’s double concerto, "A Time to Mourn and a Time to Dance," with the Sejong Soloists at Carnegie Hall, in April.

The Strad: "Shaham and Anthony brought great beauty and depth to (Dorman's double concerto), with the former’s solo at the start of the heart-rending ‘Lamentful’ especially moving."

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