Wednesday 23 June 2010, 12:12
Read here one of the most detailed reviews by 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. (more…)
Thursday 8 April 2010, 16:26
On Monday April 12th. the Dutch TV will broadcast a new documentary of Lavinia, called “Playing for the past”, in which she returns to her country of birth, South Korea, after 25 years to perform during the New Years Concert. During her stay, she decided to meet her biological father.
Friday 12 March 2010, 8:48
The British magazine Gramophone featured Lavinia in their “One to watch” (April issue). Have a look!
“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. (more…)
Wednesday 10 March 2010, 9:57
The French HAUTE DEFINITION wrote the following review of Lavinia’s 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… ;” (more…)
