The Strad
December 2013
There’s luxury casting with the appearance of Romanian-born violinist Remus Azoitei as a subtle and sensitive soloist…. A highly recommended release.
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The Strad
December 2013
There’s luxury casting with the appearance of Romanian-born violinist Remus Azoitei as a subtle and sensitive soloist…. A highly recommended release.
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Musical Opinion – Wigmore Hall concert
December 2008
The recital opened with Enescu’s superb Impressions d’enfance, so rarely heard but more than deserving of resuscitation, the more so in what members of the audience regarded as fine account as this. Brahms’s late D minor Sonata followed, also much appreciated by the audience as a performance of no little distinction, especially with regard to the choice of tempi. These were magnificent performances indeed… Clearly, a memorable evening.
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Classical Source
May 2007
Romanian violinist Remus Azoitei (currently Violin Professor at the Royal Academy of Music) identifies completely with the music, responding to its every expressive turn with commitment. He surmounts the music’s technical challenges with such practiced ease you forget they are there and focus on the music’s eloquent magic.
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La Scena Musicale
June 2007
The Impressions of Childhood Op. 28 of 1940 require to be served by grand virtuosity, and they are served just so by the two native Romanian performers.
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BBC Music Magazine – 5-star recording qualification
February 2009
In a hypnotic account of the Third Sonata, Azoitei and Stan demonstrate complete empathy with the quasi-improvisatory nature of the writing. Superb playing also in the Brahmsian First Sonata.
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All Music UK – 5-star recording awarded
November 2008
Azoitei’s tone is warm yet powerful and focused, with an impressive breadth of colours at his disposal.
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International Record Review
April 2007
Heard as an “epic rhapsody”, the piece convinces, not least when handled with this degree of conviction… Impressions d’enfance… Where this new account scores is in the sensitivity with which Azoitei and Stan suffuse poetic means with musical ends… An enthralling reading of a vital masterpiece.
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The Strad
May 2007
Azoitei has all the requirements: marked sensitivity, a sweetness of tone (but not over-succulence), an impressive dynamic range, and the ability to sustain Enescu’s extended lines without making them sound laboured. Both sonatas are brilliantly, perceptively and subtly played.
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Gramophone
February 2009
…The refined but vibrant performing style of Remus Azoitei, a distinctive player whose sound world echoes Enescu’s own… Azoitei and Stan combine temperament, mastery of idiom and executive elegance in a very special way. They shape the music so beautifully, so that what in some hands sounds like mere extended improvisation, here it also parades discernable form.
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BBC Music Magazine – 5-stars recording qualification and BBC Recording of the Month
December 2013
Rare and elegant… A very special release
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Frankfurter Allgemeine
April 2007
Remus Azoitei and Eduard Stan… fabulous recording…. They shun all that is upfront and are always prepared to transport their virtuosity into pianissimo.
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Luxemburger Wort
December 2008
Full of nuances, the violinist impressed with his finesse in piano dynamic, creating dreams with iridescent colours and crystalline purity, and allowing phrases to appear within a subtle dimension.
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Gramophone
October 2013
…Splendidly idiomatic performance from the Romanian violinist Remus Azoitei, light of touch but deep of perception.
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Classical Music UK Guide
February 2007
…Great sense of Enescu’s style (not that you would expect anything less from a Romanian-born violinist!). The performers’ fine musicality results in some very moving and expressive playing.
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Fono Forum – Das Klassik Magazin
July 2007
Interpretational mastery!
Remus Azoitei and Eduard Stan prove themselves to be intimately familiar with this music, letting themselves be carried by its moods completely, so that their technically perfect recording seems absolutely authentic: unforced, natural, involuntary but under no circumstances arbitrary.
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Ensemble – 5-star recording qualification
May 2007
The two musicians (Azoitei and Stan) know how to illuminate every nuance of the 10 character pieces.
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Musik & Theater
May 2007
One could not wish for a more authentic interpretation of this music…
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Muzyka 21 – 5-star recording awarded
March 2007
This spectacular performance will undoubtedly be a challenge for the musicians trying to follow their path. We strongly recommend this CD…
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Arcana
October 2016
The often intuitive interplay between the two musicians was undoubted, while the spontaneity with which they rendered Enescu’s detailed expression markings confirmed their appreciation of this music’s essence. The account of Fauré’s First Violin Sonata was hardly less impressive. …Ravel’s Tzigane is a rhapsody firmly within the virtuoso tradition and given here with just the right combination of soulfulness and panache.
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The Washington Post
December 2011
Azoitei, a Romanian trained at Juilliard and now teaching in London, played with a fluid melodic sensibility and sparkling technique.
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The Strad – Wigmore Hall concert
December 2008
Remus Azoitei was the youngest professor in the Royal Academy history when he was appointed in 2002 and word of his prowess is still spreading. it often seemed as Azoitei was exploring every facet of tone that could be drawn from the Academy’s “Maurin” Strad, as he ranged across the strings with fire and accuracy. It was exciting but always within the bounds of concert-hall good manners.
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Fanfare
April 2006
Azoitei and Stan believe in this music wholeheartedly and convey its various aspects with such apparent ease that i find it impossible not to be totally carried along by it. Remus Azoitei and Eduard Stan perform with rare distinction…
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CEEL.org.uk
October 2016
…The violin carried a trembling quality that whispered of a hidden treasure, a secret beyond. Azoitei and Stan were evidently confident in their profound understanding…They worked together subtly, organically…
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Liternet
April 2007
Remus Azoitei fulfils this part with a beautiful tone and exquisite phrasing, with a refinement that is deeply engraved in the way he expresses himself.
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Mittelbadische Presse
November 2018
Ravel’s Tzigane: Azoitei mastered the huge introduction monologue-cadenza in a sovereign manner… a dazzling performance, fully packed with melodies and intense feelings. Azoitei, a scholar of Itzhak Perlman, blasted this showpiece through the hall with technical acrobatics and perpetual changes in tempo and rhythm… Passionate string playing.
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