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Coming up soon:

 

21 October 1019

Stuttgart, Liederhalle

Dmitri Shostakovich, Violin Concerto No. 1

Orchesterverein Stuttgart

Alexander Adiarte

 

14 September 2019

Max Reger Festival, Weiden

Opening Concert

Solo Recital, Works by Bach, Reger, Hindemith, and Jarnach

 

15 - 21  September 2019

Hamburg

International Mendelssohn Festival and Summer School

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait in Germany's Monthly Magazine "Concerti" (May 2017)

 

New Bartók Double Disc, released end of January 2016 by SWRmusic:

 

"Klassik Heute" Review

written by Dr. Michael B. Weiß:

Artistic Quality 10/10

Sound Quality 9/10

Overall Impression 10/10

 

Concerti-Review "Fresh Impulses"

written by Eckhard Weber

 

14 February 2016

NDR Kultur, CD News, 19:15-20:00

Presentation and review of the new Bartók Double Disc through Marcus Stäbler

 

 

 

 

 

Concert Preview:

 

17 January 2016

Schwetzingen, Rokoko Theater

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto E minor op. 64

Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim

Conductor: Johannes Schlaefli

 

29 January 2016

Lippstadt, Municipal Theatre

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto E minor op. 64

Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie Herford

Conductor: Thomas Dorsch

 

31. Januar 2016

Lüneburg, Theater

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto E minor op. 64

Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie Herford

Conductor: Thomas Dorsch

 

 

CD Reviews of the recent Busoni/Strauss CD:

 

 

CDA68044 - Busoni & Strauss: Violin Concertos

 

Violin Concertos by F. Busoni and by R. Strauss, first recording of Busoni's transcription of Beethoven's "Benedictus" from the Missa Solemnis for Violin and Orchestra

 

Tanja Becker-Bender

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Garry Walker

Hyperion Records, produced together with BBC

 

September 2014

Gramophone Review by Guy Rickards

"...a splendidly rendered performance... an excellent disc."

 

8 September 2014

Concerti

Review by Sören Ingwersen

 

4 September 2014

"Die Presse" Vienna

Wilhelm Sinkovicz

Translation in English

 

28 August 2014

WDR 3, CD Review by Christoph Vratz can still be heard online

 

25 August 2014

KulturSpiegel 9/2014, CD Review by Johannes Saltzwedel

Translation in English


14 August 2014

SR 2 MusikWelt

CD Review and Interview

 

12 August 2014

Stuttgarter Zeitung, Review by Hans Joerg Wangner, Print version can be read here in StZ blog

 

3 August 2014

NDR Kultur, CD News

Broadcast hosted by Marcus Stäbler, CD review and Interview

 

1 August 2014

rbb kulturradio, Peter Uehling

CD Review

 

21 July 2014

Presto News

CD Review

 

 

...and here are links to the CD reviews of the Hindemith Sonatas CD, published not long ago:

 

Gramophone
Review of the Hindemith CD

 

Review of the Hindemith CD by Susanne Schaal-Gotthardt in the Hindemith Forum of the  Hindemith Institut Frankfurt

 

Review of the Hindemith CD by Michael Cuckson on musicweb-international.com

 

Hindemith, the lyrical composer
Review of the Hindemith CD by Stefan Drees on Klassik.com (five Stars)

 

Review of the Hindemith CD by Ben Hogwood on classicalsource.com

 

CD recommendation of the nmz (New Music Journal): Hindemith Sonatas

 

29 December 2013, German Radio "Deutschlandfunk", "The New Disc"
Presentation of the Hindemith CD, commemorating the composer's 50th year of death

 

28 December 2013, 15:30, Musikszene Hessen beim Hessischen Rundfunk
Broadcast commemorating the 50th year of the death of Paul Hindemith Interview with Tanja Becker-Bender and broadcast of excerpts of the four Sonatas for Violin and Piano
Hosting the broadcast: Werner Laibusch

3 December 2013, NDR Cultural Radio, 9:00 p.m. "World of Music"
Broadcast on Paul Hindemith, editor Ludwig Hartmann

 

New CD Release, November 2013:
Paul Hindemith, Sämtliche Sonaten für Violine und Klavier
Tanja Becker-Bender, Violin
Péter Nagy, Piano
Hyperion Records

These new performances prove to be everything that one would wish for in these taxing and often elusive works … A valuable release. (International Record Review)

Review of the performance of Ligeti's Violin Concerto in the "Saarbrücker Zeitung", 19 November 2013

[...] The German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra realized it convincingly, precisely conducted by Zsolt Nagy.

This was also the case in György Ligeti's Violin Concerto, which violinist Tanja Becker-Bender endowed with ingenious sound effects in technical perfection, and wherever possible with captivatingly rich sound. Ligeti, exploring sounds, experimented in the orchestra with "distuned" strings, in an "impure" mixture with well-tempered tuning. A fascinating world of sound, from which the solo violin employed an impressive and explosive closing cadenza in order to lead back to the orchestral fortissimo reality.
(Helmut Fackler)

 

Review of the Bartók Recital with Péter Nagy at the Turina Festival in Seville, Spain:
Correo de Andalucia: "An unthinkable present" (Un regalo impensabile)

Diario de Sevilla: "Intensidad de un violín apasionado"