REVIEWS

Past reviews for Telluride Musicfest performances

Reviews for 2004

Below find reviews from concerts presented by Telluride Music Fest

Reviews by:

The Telluride Watch

The Telluride Daily Planet

plus some reviews by audience members.

Reviews for 2004

"The evening.. was stunning--. In blend, dynamics and ensemble, you'll not hear anything better."

The Telluride Watch, June 2004

"With the delicate feast of music in this hushed summer music festival, you wonder if there exists music and sounds…maybe too perfect and too precious for our twenty-first century ears to hear."

The Telluride Watch, June 2004

"You can hear it all played live in a gorgeous room, comfortably reclined on the host's sofa or easy chair, and your ears will be massaged back to how they were intended to hear music in a perfect world."

Telluride Watch, June 2004

Telluride Musicfest is "an elegant gathering of art and music aficionados who… yield themselves to some very fine music-making".

The Telluride Watch, June 2004

"The Schubert quintet [performed by Alexis Pia Gerlach and Astrid Schween dreamily transported the listener to a landscape of tender sounds that whispered to the ear of what heaven will someday be like. It was hard to rouse yourself out of that euphoric fog and give a standing ovation…, because you knew that meant leaving the glory of the Schubert behind, picking up your coat and exiting … and returning to the real world."

"If you’re a novice chamber concertgoer, you’ll find that the music is up-close and vibrant – and virtually seen as well as heard. You may chose to follow the piano down its path as it winds through the trees and across its river, or you can jump tracts and follow the cello as it makes its way up an open, craggy cliff, leaving the piano and violin on their paths amongst the trees below it. Chamber music listening becomes the open page of an illustrated storybook, and it is quite the adventure."

The Telluride Watch, January 9th, 2004

"Last night's free concert at Anne and Vincent Mai's home was billed as "Amateur Night." It was anything but that. What an opportunity to see and hear truly remarkable non-professionals along with some accomplished professional musicians. One of the founders of this wonderful event and a part-time Telluridian, Josh Aronson, dazzled us at the piano playing Dvorak, Beethoven and Dohnanyi, as well as a beautiful duet with his equally beautiful wife, the violinist and artistic director of the festival, Maria Bachmann."

Letter to the Editor, Telluride Daily Planet, June 2004

"The TMF has been a real treat again this season… [They] delighted us with a fest of fine chamber music that will linger in our hearts and minds for years to come".

Letter to the Editor, Telluride Daily Planet, June 17, 2004