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Steve Smith reviews Ieva's Berg Tribute recording
The Sunday Times (UK) reviews Ieva's Berg Tribute recording
'she is an artist of commanding technique, refined temperament and persuasive insight.'
New York Times
'Ms. Jokubaviciute’s take on Berg’s Piano Sonata (Op. 1) is lithe, muscular and transparent, creating a sense of spontaneity and play.'
New York Times
'elegant and engaging'
Wall Street Journal
'Not that pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute needed a thesis topic to draw us in. She proved a splendid colorist in five Debussy Preludes, with gossamer fingering and nuanced pedaling making for some magical tone-painting. Ditto her sensitive approach to Faure's Barcarolle No. 6 and Nocturne No. 6. But in a pair of late-career Chopin Nocturnes -- which provided a striking complement to the Whistler "Nocturnes" on view in the gallery upstairs at intermission -- the pianist traded hushed elegance for spiky deconstruction, making their splintering melodies and mercurial shifts in rhythm sound downright experimental… Jokubaviciute found an essential beauty, balance and haunting allure that evoked the spirit of Schubert. And, for that matter, of Whistler.'
The Washington Post
'pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute made it (Messiaen's Quartuor pour la fin du temps) powerful and beautiful…Jokubaviciute's ultra-sensitive piano made "Louange a l'Eternite de Jesus (Praise to the eternity of Jesus) heart-wrenching.'
Times Argus
'razor-sharp intelligence and wit'
The Washington Post
'The excellence in her delivery of Mozart's work reminded one of an early morning flower in bloom and with encompassing free flowing fingers giving each inspired note a moment of life.'
Oak Park Journal
"pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute played with confident virtuosity and a moody spontaneity that emphasized the work's chromatic, almost jazz-like harmonies."
The Washington Post
"…perfectly in sync with the ingratiating sweetness of the work's outer movements and the elegiac tenderness of the Adagio. Ieva Jokubaviciute, the pianist, was an attentive, responsive partner."
New York Times
"Pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute was a deft partner, finding ways to make the large-scale keyboard writing in both works register boldly, while never upstaging the violin."
The Washington Post

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