“Mintz was technically brilliant, showing off his exquisite left hand technique… After an avalanche of Violin’s Most Scary Techniques, … delivered with flawless intonation, over extreme terrain, I knew that I had witnessed one of the most memorable performances of my life..”
“Call it “Sprezzatura”: the art to achieve a high degree of perfection in a seemingly casual way.” “My challenge? To connect the ear and the mind and to teach people to consciously search for beauty’’ “Those fortunate persons who attended the concert had the singular occasion to listen one of the greatest violinists of these days.”
“Unhurriedly, calmly, somewhat quietly… and stunningly precisely. It felt like a laser cutting in silence a seemingly straight line, which nevertheless was full of Baroque embellishments. Mintz’s violin did not dart at breakneck speed, nor pushed itself to the forefront. Instead, it simply chatted to this or that musician… all in perfect, nay, cosmic harmony.” “”Equipped with only his violin and Paganini’s Caprice No.24, Mintz blew us away with a magnanimous onslaught of violin technique… By the time interval began we were left breathless, wondering how we could ever listen to a violin in the same way again.” https://www.shlomomintzviolin.com/
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