More Selected Reviews of Concerts Boston Globe "Rarely do forces of music, energy and idea find themselves so powerfully in alliance within a single individual. The most arresting feature of her playing is the strength and fluidity of her bow arm - a consummately controlled channel for the outpouring of a musical mind that is passionate, inventive, spontaneous, yet carefully reasoned and serenely assured." New York Times "It was Rostropovich's best playing of intricate 20th century music that came to mind as Miss Georgian sailed through the treacherous, encyclopaedic solo sonata of Kodály - the work of a musician who has absorbed the material and identified with it fully." The Times "The real news was Karine Georgian's performance. It seemed to contain both more notes and more beauty than the piece commonly yields." [on Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations at the Proms] The Times "Gubaidulina's 'Seven Last Words' has had several performances in this country, but surely none better than here....Karine Georgian's big, majestic cello tone and the powerful, stabbing chords and flashes of silvery brilliance from James Crabb's accordion sustained interest where motifs are used a little repetitively." Financial Times "Everything Georgian plays is presented with the most succulent, glowing tone, the phrasing boundlessly ample." Belfast Telegraph "Dvorák's inspired concerto is a masterpiece, to the performance of which Ms. Georgian brought a formidable array of talent, technical security, finely shaped phrases and lustrous tone." Sydney Morning Herald "In one of Britten's most original orchestral works [Cello Symphony] Georgian played the cello part with commitment and driving energy, seeming to gather in particles of energy swept out of the surrounding air." Los Angeles Times "Karine Georgian, making her Philharmonic debut, conveyed its [Shostakovich Second Cello Concerto] piquant lyricism, its grotesquerie and melodic violence with virtuosic aplomb. Unlike some colleagues she did not rip into the piece with fierce theatricality. She concentrated on muted passions, yet sacrificed no expressive intensity in the process." Die Welt "With Karine Georgian as soloist, Dvorák's Concerto was the event of the evening...It says a great deal for an artist to be able to give so uniquely personal an account of a work about which one would think there was nothing to left to say. Here was virtuosity so effortless as simply to bewitch the listeners. Hamburg feted its new discovery and completely succumbed to her magic. The virtuoso ranks among the supreme in her field." [ recording reviews ]