Cantabel Productions is delighted to announce some excited news about our artist, the violinist Volodja Balzalorsky, who has been awarded several music awards in the past couple of years.
New Music Reviews / PRWeb:
UPCOMING CONCERTS:
Aug 31, 2011 - Bol na Bracu, (CT) @ Dominican monastery - Summer Festival Bol Sept 2, 2011 - Lopud, (CT) @ St. Nicolai Church (Island of Lopud) - Lopudsko ljeto 2011 (Summer Festival)
Oct 2, 2011 - Nordhorn, (DE) @ Manz-Saal im NINO Hochbau - Pro-nota Concert Series / Festival Spectrum w/ Amael Piano trio
Nov 15, 2011 - Chipping Campden, (UK) @ Chipping Campden School Hall - Concert Series of Canpden & District Music Society w/ Amael Piano Trio
Nov 17, 2011 - Gloucester, (UK) @ St Mary De Lode - Gloucester Music Society Concert Series w/ Amael Piano Trio
Nov 18, 2011 - Bromsgrove, (UK) @ Artrix - Bromsgrove Concerts w/ Amael Piano Trio
Mar 28, 2012 - Ljubljana, (SI) @ Slovenian Philharmonic - Amael Piano Trio w/ Amael Piano TrIo
CD REVIEWS: Fanfare recommends Volodja Balzalorsky's Live Collection:
According to Fanfare -- The Magazine for Serius Record Collectors, Volodja Balzalorsky's four CDs on Cantabel have made available some stunning live performances, all reviewed in 2010-issues of Fanfare and deserve high recommendation. Compared with some great violin legends such as Kreisler, Szigeti, Oistrakh and Stern, Balzalorsky's Live recordings received the highest critical acclaim. Fanfare Reviews
In 2011 Cantabel will continue with releases of Balzalorsky's Live recordings. The next, 5th release of the Live Collection (in March) will present live recordings from the Spectrum Festival, performed by Amael Trio in works by Brahms, Glinka, Schnittke, and Piazzolla. With this release, the series of five concerts-five CDs (each concert, one CD) will be completed.
Additional planned release in 2011: Portrait of Volodja Balzalorsky, featuring works by Ernest Bloch, Karol Szymanowski, Alojz Srebotnjak and Johannes Brahms.
Concert Highlights 2011
Concert Highlights of Volodja Balzalorsky for 2011 include two performances at the 25th SXSW Festival in Austin in March, Croatian tour in May, Amael Piano Trio German Tour in October, including concerts in Gasteig in Munich and concert at the Festival Spectrum Nordhorn, and England tour in November.
Concert Highlights 2009/10:
Highlights of Volodja Balzalorsky's 2009-2010 Season include (solo-recital) performances at Ljubljana Festival in Slovenia, in Gasteig (Munich), with Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra performing Brahms Concerto, at The Red Hedgehog Celebrity Concert Series in London, two performances at Carnegie Hall in New York (ArrivaDiva Master Recita Series 2009 and Festival Spectrum 2010), at the SXSW Festival in Austin in March 2010.
Volodja Balzalorsky was particularly active with his Amael Piano Trio, performing with a great success at several international festivals:
Rome: Festival Musicale Delle Nazioni December 25
London:The Forge November 30
New York: Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall November 13
Belgrade: Kolarac Chamber Music Podium (Kolarac Hall) October 24
Niš: Festival Nimus October 25
Rome: Festival Nuovi Spazi Musicali October 7
Bergen: Festival Grieg in Bergen July 23, 24
San Marino: Festival "Mask Fest" Juni 5
The Amael Piano Trio has received oustanding international acclaim performing in New York, London, Rome and some other European cities ...A large Multi-national audience rewarded the Amael Piano Trio with
thunderous applause and prolonged ovations at the sold-out Christmas Concert in Rome, which completed a series of very successful Amael Trio performances at several international festivals, including concerts at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York and at The Forge in London, for which Amael Trio received outstanding acclaim, both by the critics as well as by the audience, and thus confirmed its reputation and international recognition already achieved in the past. (Extract)
Recent Reviews
The ClassicalSource Review... with stunning virtuosity and gripping energy... In the hands of this subtle yet communicative artist the violin came alive, with pointed pizzicato, incisive double-stopping and rapid passagework adding to the relentless excitement...
New York Concert Review A top-notch ensemble, the Amael Piano Trio!..Amael Trio brought unity and vigor to both old and new...The synchronization was marvelous, particularly in the string doublings.... All three blended in a way that was rich and warm, but also translucent, like the sonic equivalent of amber... it was a fulfilling musical evening, and this is a superb ensemble
Reviews of Live Collection (4 CDs) - Fanfare Magazine
Dvořák’s Sonatina, its first movement (and the opening of the second) suffused with glowing warmth and the charming rhythmic patterns teased cleverly out of the Larghetto’s middle section. Balžalorsky plays the Sonatina’s Scherzo as though he had written it, with particularly insinuating subtlety in the trio.
...Balžalorsky’s ability to turn and twist his tone, and the performers’ joint sympathy for Franck’s expressive harmonic language and surging passages give them a strong foothold in the first movement. They slightly hold back climaxes, making them just bearable, and exhibit a wide dynamic range in exploring the movement’s subtleties. In the engineers’ recorded sound, Balžalorsky’s entrance in the second movement seems almost cavernous, but they’ve by no means diminished the urgency of his reading. Compared to Isaac Stern’s raw energy, Balžalorsky’s seems super-subtleized...The duo begins the last movement slowly, but quickly turns to a sort of sharp-edged articulation that lends the movement unusual excitement almost to the end...
Debussy’s Sonata in Balžalorsky’s performance sounds slinky and ethereal in its first movement, with appropriately reedy and highly inflected tone production, I’ve watched David Oistrakh playing (on VHS, Kultur) many times, but he didn’t seem to make as many timbral adjustments (neither did Isaac Stern in his recording from 1960) as does Balžalorsky in order to realize the movement’s full potential...
In Vienna, Balžalorsky and Theiler played with drive and ardor in the first movement of Grieg’s C-Minor Sonata, imparting special piquancy to the off-beat accompanying figures (even in Kreisler’s celebrated performance with Rachmaninoff, they don’t tease the violin part so impudently).....
Review: All Music Guide
Review: Brahms Concerto with Cheltenham Symphony
Press - Media
Radio Slovenia LIVE: Ars Art Atelje (Studio):
guest artist Volodja Balzalorsky Wednesday 24 Nov, 2010
Fanfare Magazine Interview, which was published in Nov/Dec Issue of Fanfare under section "Feature Articles"
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Volodja Balzalorsky Interview: SXSW 2010 - Spinner
Posted on Mar 13th 2010 2:28PM by Chasity Goddard
Volodja Balzalorsky's interview for KUHF Houston Public Radio / NPR: presented by Meghan Hendley:
