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PatKop & Say album review – playfulness and beguiling delicacy in mix of new and old

Compositions by both musicians themselves frame works by Szymanowski and Prokofiev

The Guardian - UK · Oct 16

Oslo Philharmonic/Gražinytė-Tyla/Kopatchinskaja review – weapons-grade charisma and anarchic delight

Patricia Kopatchinskaja hurls herself into Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto, while conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla brings precision and intensity to Prokofiev

The Guardian - UK · Aug 30

LSO/Treviño/ Kopatchinskaja review – he conducts with a coiled-spring muscularity

Robert Treviño’s sure hand led the London Symphony Orchestra through mystical Messiaen and cinematic Rachmaninoff with Patricia Kopatchinskaja precise and playful in Márton Illés’s Vont-tér

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30

Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Aurora Orchestra review – ferocious evocation of humanity’s reckoning

The violinist leads an unsparing assault of pieces from Biber’s dissonant Battalia à 10 to Ustvolskaya’s Composition No 2 as sirens bellow and metronomes tick down our existence

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2024

LSO/Pappano review – Kopatchinskaja dazzles and ravishes in Say’s Violin Concerto

Fazil Say’s theatrical ‘1001 Nights in the Harem’ was terrific fun, played with exhilarating precision by the LSO and soloist Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Rachmaninov of drama and power ended a concert full of colour

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2023

Maria Mater Meretrix review – beautifully paced evening of drama and quiet darkness

Devised by violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and soprano Anna Prohaska, this sequence of vocal and instrumental pieces explored depictions of the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene with stylish verve

The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2023

Patricia Kopatchinskaja/Joonas Ahonen review – freewheeling explosive expressionism

The violinist’s extraordinary playing ensured a recital built around two Beethoven sonatas was anything but staid

The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2023

Hough, Dutilleux & Ravel: String Quartets review – witty scenes of 20s Paris and gossamer delicacy

A long-awaited recording of Ravel is accompanied by Stephen Hough’s composition, absurdist vignettes of Paris

The Guardian - UK · Jan 5, 2023

The week in classical: Dalia; Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra and Aurora Proms – review

Garsington’s refugee community opera bowls everyone over. At the Proms, uprooted Ukrainian musicians play as one, and Aurora Orchestra go to the brink

The Guardian - UK · Aug 6, 2022

BBC Proms: Aurora Orchestra/Nicholas Collon at the Royal Albert Hall review: Impressive

The orchestra’s celebrated from-memory performance filled the Albert Hall to near capacity

Evening Standard · Aug 3, 2022