Reviews | RH-031 | ERICK FRIEDMAN | live in Texas
 July 2025 | Christoph Schlüren | FONO FORUM - 07/25 p.66 | Rhine Classics' Historical Anthologies [...] Otherwise, there are, of course, other great violinists to whom Pessina's loving dedication (in collaboration with Gary Lemco during the US excavations) is directed. Erick Friedman (1939-2004), Heifetz's immaculately perfect and yet independent model pupil, plays sonatas by Brahms (No. 3), Grieg (No. 2), and Prokofiev (No. 1) in a perfectly balanced manner. [...]
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 2 February 2025 | Jean-Charles Hoffelé | ARTAMAG' - Focus - Le disque du jour | VIRTUOSES RETROUVÉS [...] D’un musicien l’autre : Erick Friedman jeune homme fut un temps considéré comme un nouvel Heifetz, contrat tonitruant à la RCA, adoubé par le maître lui-même qui dialoguera avec lui au disque pour le Concerto à deux violons de Bach. Légendaire, dès ses débuts, carrière américaine brillante, le disque s’éloignant pourtant trop tôt d’un art aussi parfait, puis en 1986, un accident de voiture le contraint à une longue pause avant de pouvoir retrouver une partie de ses moyens. Les trois Sonates captées en concert en 2001, trois ans avant sa mort et alors que les premiers effets du cancer qui allait l’emporter commençaient à l’affecter, le montrent toujours aussi virtuose, touche assurée, archet délié, mais ce qui surprend en premier reste la pure beauté de sa sonorité, l’élégance des phrasés, la délicatesse des interprétations qui font pleurer d’avoir si peu de choses par lui : il faut qu’Emilio Pessina nous dégotte d’autres trésors de ce musicien pour les musiciens, écoutez seulement sa Troisième Sonate de Brahms. [JCH] [...] From one musician to another: the young Erick Friedman was once considered a new Heifetz, a sensational contract with RCA, endorsed by the master himself, who would later enter into a dialogue with him on the recording of Bach's Concerto for Two Violins. Legendary from the start, with a brilliant American career, the recording process nevertheless departed too soon from such a perfect art form. Then, in 1986, a car accident forced him to take a long break before he could regain some of his strength. The three Sonatas recorded in concert in 2001, three years before his death and when the first effects of the cancer that would take him away were beginning to affect him, show him as virtuoso as ever, with a sure touch and a smooth bow, but what surprises first remains the pure beauty of his sound, the elegance of his phrasing, the delicacy of his interpretations which make you cry to have so little by him: Emilio Pessina must unearth other treasures from this musician for musicians, just listen to his Third Sonata by Brahms. [JCH] |
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 14 October 2024 | Jonathan Woolf | MusicWeb International Live sonata performances from a Heifetz protégé who became his own man [JW] |
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19 September 2024 | Stephen Greenbank | MusicWeb International A pleasing addition to Friedman’s discography with these first CD releases [SG] |
 Septembre 2024 | Jean-Michel Molkhou | "Talents oubliés" | CLASSICA n°265 p.89 | FRIEDMAN [☆☆☆ - Bon].
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