woensdag 23 juni 2010, 12:12
Lees hier een van de meest uitgebreide recensies van MusicWeb International!
“One of the great pleasures of reviewing is the discovery of unfamiliar repertoire and artists. Happily, this new disc from Channel Classics scores on both counts. Featuring the Korean-born harpist Lavinia Meijer – she was adopted by a Dutch family – this recital offers an inspired programme of 20th- and 21st-century pieces recorded in a gorgeous acoustic by Jared Sacks, one of the industry’s foremost producers and engineers. Channel – which has just celebrated its 20th anniversary – has a clutch of award-winning discs to its name, among them a highly regarded Mahler Fourth from Ivan Fischer and his Budapest band. And if that weren’t enough, the company produces some of the most natural-sounding SACDs around. (meer…)
donderdag 8 april 2010, 16:26
Op maandagavond 12 april, om 22.50u. (Nederland 2 in de serie “Dokument”), zendt de NCRV de Koreaanse documentaire “Spelen voor het verleden” uit. Deze documentaire gaat over de reis die Lavinia in december 2008 maakte naar Zuid-Korea, haar geboorteland, waar ze na 23 jaar weer voor het eerst terugging. Ze trad op tijdens het Nieuwjaarsconcert en besloot haar biologische vader te ontmoeten. Zie ook: NCRV.
vrijdag 12 maart 2010, 8:48
Het Britse tijdschrift Gramophone sprak lovende woorden over Lavinia in de “One to watch” (april editie). Lees hier wat ze schreven:
“There may not be many star harpists in the world, but Lavinia Meijer has as good a chance of becoming one as any. Certainly some of the world’s great orchestras and halls have cottoned on to her talent early, as she appears with the likes of the Royal Concertgebouw and the Israel Philharmonic, while her Carnegie Hall debut came – for a solo concert – a little over a year ago. (meer…)
woensdag 10 maart 2010, 9:57
Het Franse HAUTE DEFINITION heeft de volgende recensie geschreven over Lavinia’s nieuwe CD Visions:
“Without doubt, here is one of the most magnificent recordings devoted to the harp of the past ten years. This monument – for that is what it is – is dedicated to contemporary composers or those from the last century. We can thus listen to Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) in his Suite Op.83 dating from 1969, who at the time declared: “I believe in roots, in associations, in context, in personal relations. I want that my music be for people, that it please them, that it puts their life into value… ;” (meer…)
