***** Coup de Cœur

Interpretation ***** (Outstanding)       Sound Quality ***** (Outstanding)     Repertoire **** (Very Good)     Booklet *** (Good)

Editor’s Choice

“… The Latvian violinist Baiba Skride throws herself into the music with verve and offers rousing, tonally well-balanced, exciting renditions that were excellently recorded by Deutschlandfunk… An important contribution to understanding the history of music, at the same time a stirring CD of such difficult music for violin alone.”

“… No compromises here from composer [Schulhoff] or performer. It’s a class act in glorious sound…” ****

Pizzicato Supersonic

“…Skride succeeds impressively in characterizing each of these four rather short sonatas, together lasting only more than three-quarters of an hour, as effectively as elegantly. Effortlessly, she allows the sounds to blossom and leaps easily over all technical thresholds. She offers Hindemith’s variations eloquently, but as simply as a nursery rhyme, while she can also present Jarnach’s more academic writing with the necessary rigor. This Hamburg-based Latvian violinist may not always be in the forefront, but she is able to demonstrate that she is a master of the violin and knows how to perform excellently in various repertoires.”