Delft Chamber Music Festival in the press

Reviews 2023

De Volkskrant wrote, among other things, about Gareth Lubbe's overtone vocals on Friday evening: "A magical moment, when Gareth Lubbe's high whistles begin to rise and fall. After soft exclamations of surprise, the audience hangs on its lips. It is magical when above the fundamental note the formants (very high whistles) loosen up and begin to rise and fall." ★★★★

NRC Handelsblad wrote about the Opening Concert: "Violinist Candida Thompson has a more pleasant tone in Brahms' First Piano Quartet, and after a short break it sounds balanced, especially when the three strings play long notes simultaneously or take turns interlocking." ●●●

Trouw headlined "Dutch masters prove in Delft that you don't necessarily have to travel far for quality". Peter van der Lint wrote about the combination of music and museum visits: "Particularly nice, and this formula of a festival that has existed for more than a quarter of a century and has proven itself again and again - now for the second year firmly under the direction of pianist Nino Gvetadze - reinvents." ★★★★

The online magazine Arts Talk Magazine wrote about the world premiere of And these hands ('Hollandse Meesters', 29 July): "But the outstanding piece was Vanessa Lann's world premiere of And These Hands for violin and viola, played by Tosca Opdam and Gareth Lubbe who once again produced his miraculous and earthy breath-singing.The set-up of eight music stands along which the musicians moved as they played, was a simple but very effective device to increase the tension, and attention, of the audience – simply ingenuous."
About Rhapsody in Blue ('America' Aug 3) Arts Talk Magazine wrote: "If you close your eyes it's easy to imagine yourself hailing a yellow taxi in Fifth Avenue in the rush hour. Tonight's performance featured, of course, Ms Gvetadze on piano and a reduced five-piece ensemble, as opposed to the full twenty-two piece orchestra.Few in number they may have been, but they certainly delivered the goods with gusto and verve, sweeping us along like a crowd making headlong for Grand Central Station.

De Nieuwe Muze wrote about 'The Silk Road' (Aug. 1) "What a brilliant idea of ​​Gvetadze to enrich her 'On a journey' theme with a self-devised multimedia project about the famous Silk Road!"

Would you like to reminisce about the previous festivals? Check out our Flickr account HERE. Or enjoy the the concerts of 2021 HERE.