Patricia Kopatchinskaja

“There are so many young violinists making waves today, but no-one more exciting than Patricia Kopatchinskaja…” (Leslie Wright, MusicWeb International, March 2013)

“In everything I’ve heard her play Patricia Kopatchinskaja marries consummate technical brilliance and an amazing aural imagination with a capacity to bring completely new interpretative perspectives to some very familiar music.” (Erik Levi, BBC Music Magazine, February 2013)

“Despite the huge technical challenges thrown at her, Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays with a deep and selfless understanding of each score.” (The Sunday Times, January 2013)

"In the culminating cadenza - which Ligeti asked the soloist to devise - Kopatchinskaja’s violin comes close to disintegrating under the force of her spectacular display". (Arnold Whittall, Gramophone, December 2012)

The notes seem to tumble from the young Moldavian - for some time now an additional star in the violinist sky - like coloured garlands. Her playing is quasi weightless, even if the piece is as complex as Bartóks second violin concerto. (Frankfurter Neue Presse, July 2012)

"It quickly becomes clear that for Kopatchinskaja only one thing is of importance: music. She devotes herself to Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto with an unrestrained performance at the verge of obsession. If she does not play herself, she sings and swings with the music. But when she plays she seems to merge with her instrument." (Südkurier, April 2012)

The Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja is endowed with an explosive technique. She can reach every possible colour of tone and conjure captivatingly beautiful cantilenas. (Deister und Weserzeitung, March 2012)

"The 34-year-old Moldavian's interpretation Beethoven's Violin Concerto was so incredibly outrageous, so lively and so original that one could only marvel. It was one of the most exciting performances of Beethoven's Solitaire, one has ever heard in the concert hall.” (Ruhr Nachrichten, May 2011)

"Gifted Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja has slimmed her tone to a fragile finesse…the freshness of this interpretation is exhilarating." (Geoff Brown, The Times, November 2009)

Patricia Kopatchinskaja's warmly recorded account of the Beethoven Violin Concerto must be one of the most stimulating and provocative that has ever been committed to disc.  Studying the composer's autograph has inspired her to provide a radically different interpretation of the work to the one with which most people will be familiar. (BBC Music Magazine, December 2009)