Reviews - cellist Michaela Fukacova

<body stylesrc="frontpage.htm" bgcolor="#100038" link="#FFFFFF" vlink="#00FFFF" alink="#FF0000"> <h2><font color="#FFFFCC">Reviews for the cellist Michaela Fukacova in The Strad, The Hamilton Spectator, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Berlingske Tidende , The Politiken and more.</font></h2> <table border="0" width="337" cellspacing="1" bordercolorlight="#C0C0C0" bordercolordark="#535353" height="2155"> <tr> <td height="2000" width="333" valign="top"> <p><font color="#A898F8"><b><font size="3" color="#FFFFCC">...Michaela Fukacova is an innate musician whose formidable technical equipment is completely at the service of the composer, and whose natural artistry is evident in every bar..."</font></b></font> </p> <div align="right"> <p><font color="#FFFFCC" size="3"><b>Gramophone (11/97, p. 62)</b></font> </p> </div> <p><font color="#FFFFCC" size="3"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">.. a superb young cellist, Michaela Fukacova, was in her native element with this music and got right to its heart with a richly warm tone that contained a marvellously varied palette of colours.</span></b></font> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="right"><font size="3" color="#FFFFCC"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><b>Hamilton Spectator, Canada</b></span></font></p> <div align="left"> <p><font color="#FFFFCC"><b>...and it was the cellist who dominated, from the moment she arrived on stage. Fukacová steered a firm course through the many changes of mood and gear which make Dvorak´s Concerto so distinctive. A cellist to watch indeed.</b> </font></p> </div> <div align="right"><font color="#FFFFCC" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: DA; mso-fareast-language: DA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><b>The Guardian</b></span></font> </div> <p align="left"><font size="3" color="#FFFFCC"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><b>If ever there has been a name to watch out for, this is the one!</b></span></font></p> <p align="right"><font size="3" color="#FFFFCC"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:DA;mso-fareast-language:DA;mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><b>The Strad</b></span></font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFCC" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: DA; mso-fareast-language: DA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><b>No phrase was commonplace; in the slow movement of Schubert´s Arpeggione sonata she gave a unique quality to each of the three repeated notes in the opening melody. From soaring cantabile to whispered pianissimo her tone was wholly controlled, unencumbered by false expression or aggressive attack. Brahm´s Second Sonata, beginning in full flight, contained some of the most impassioned yet pure toned cello playing I have heard.</b></span></font></p> <p align="right"><font color="#FFFFCC" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: DA; mso-fareast-language: DA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><b>The Daily Telegraph</b></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="#FFFFCC"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><b>... we were treated to a ravishing performence of Walton`s Cello Concerto by the beautiful young cellist Michaela Fukacova. This had to be the most vigorous and transporting performance of this work I have ever heard.</b></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="right"><font size="3" color="#FFFFCC"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><b>Aberdeen Evening Express</b></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="#FFFFCC"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><b>Michaela Fukacova displayed great musicality and admirable technique. Variations on a simple theme became, in her interpretation a thrilling adventure full of miraculous nuances, combined with powerful virtuoso playing.</b></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="right"><font size="3" color="#FFFFCC"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><b>Leidsch Dagblad, Holland</b></span></font></p> <font size="3" color="#FFFFCC"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><b>Some features of this creative performance can hardly be forgotten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span>The audience as well as the orchestra easily recognized that there was a rare artistic feast taking place. The more fact that the soloist managed to evoke this sort of experience through music of the present century, not aided by the charm of, say, Dvorak or Tchaikovsky, has doubled the worth of her performence.</b></span></font> <p align="right"><font size="3" color="#FFFFCC"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DA;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Hudebni Rozhledy,, Prague</b></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="#FFFFCC"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><b>With excellent, dedicated soloists it turned out to be a wonderful Brahms interpretation. In particular the young Fukacova, with her nature musical ability, holds great career promise.</b></span></font></p> <p align="right"><font size="3" color="#FFFFCC"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:DA;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><b>Ongakuno Tomo, Tokyo</b></span> </font> <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#FFFFCC" size="3"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">This was one of the finest concerts, one you remember always.</span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">I could string one superlative after another, without doing justice to the calibre of this artist...</span></b></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="right"><font size="3" color="#FFFFCC"><span lang="DE" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:DE"><b>Politiken, Copenhagen</b></span></font></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="#FFFFCC"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><b>Her command of the instrument is imposing, her art of creating atmosphere astounding. You are captivated by the parts relished emotianally and inspired to lithen breathless to the musically integrated flow full of tension, where the delicate details are like the dots over i´s.</b></span></font></p> <p align="right"><font size="3" color="#FFFFCC"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:DE;mso-fareast-language: DA;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><b>Berlingske Tidende, Denmark</b></span> </font> <p align="left"><font color="#FFFFCC" size="3"><b>...and Martinu's First Cello Concerto coming in the middle. Martinu is sometimes the most irritating of composer's - the first two movements of this substantial work make one think that it might be a masterpiece - the lines are less cluttered than can sometimes be the case, the melodies are at once memorable, the structure and harmony carefully fashioned and the cello sings its heart out - the fine young cellist Michaela Fukacova made the strongest possible case for the work, having a fine big tone but enormous sensitivity too. Then Martinu seems to get tired of the whole thing and throws the piece away in a short note spinning finale in which the poor soloist scrubs away double stopping all over the place to no great effect. Such a let down - but at least there was some compensation in the performance and the sight of the elegant Maestro Ceccato being upstaged by such a striking soloist ! </b></font> <p align="right"><font color="#FFFFCC" size="3"><b>David Wordsworth </b></font><font color="#A898F8" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif" size="3"><b><br> </b></font> </td> </tr> </table> <p><font color="#FFFFFF">If you are viewing this text, your browser lacks the ability to read frames. Don't worry, you can still enjoy our site. All the pages can be viewed from the contents page. Please come inside! <a href="index.html">Click here to go to the CONTENT PAGE</a></font></p> <p align="center"> <center> <font color="#FFFFCC"><small>© Copyright 2003-2005 </small><b><a href="http://www.fukacova.com">www.fukacova.com</a></b><small><b> </b>Michaela Fukacova</small></font> </center> </body>