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Press Quotes 2009
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"An Evening to remember
Veronika Eberle and Oliver Schnyder at the Herkulessaal
Concerts like this evening of sonatas at Munich's Herkulessaal featuring the20-year-old violinist Veronika Eberle and her excellent accompanist Oliver Schnyder are among the highlights even a professional music critic is rarely privileged to enjoy. The performance by the 'fourth grace' (alongside Julia Fischer, Lisa Batiashwili and Arabella Steinbacher) from Ana Chumachenco's impressive master class was nothing short of sensational: not in the usual terms of power and tempo, playful glamour and egocentric brilliance, but in purely musical terms.The way she presented Beethoven's last violin sonata op. 96 as an intimate and spontaneous dialogue with Oliver Schnyder, which was both full of esprit and profundity, the rhythmic virtuosity with which she tackled Schubert's tricky B minor rondo brilliant without failing to do wonderful justice to the surprising harmonic turns, embedded cantabile passages and melancholic mood changes, the explosive verve with which she attacked Janàcek's sonata revealing its existential commitment, the intoxicating joy with which she celebrated youthful Richard Strauss's sonata as an orgy of sensual violin sounds - all of this made it an evening to remember.Veronika Eberle plays on a Guadagnini violin, which used to belong to Adolf Busch. His purity and profundity of sentiment seemed to be echoed by her wonderfully unaffected interpretation of Beethoven's adagio espressivo movement with her pinpoint use of vibrato and amazing legato sound. Her tone is warm, invariably lucid and resonant, and she possesses an admirable ability to adapt it to the character and style of the composition, which enabled her to realize the emotional and stylistic demands made by Schubert and Janacek with equal perfection. She is also an embodiment of the idea that performing chamber music is a 'concerted' art, a philosophy she shares with her Swiss accompanist. Although he had fully opened the cover of his grand piano, he never drowned his partner out nor did he restrict himself to mechanically correct accompaniment. However, especial praise has to be reserved for the skill Sergiu Celibidache once put into the following words: 'Articulation means humanization'. Veronika Eberle never slurs anything. Even the smallest note is sounded with articulate clarity. To her and her partner phrasing means making the music speaks with clarity. And indeed this young artist's articulation is word-perfect. The concert hall was only half full, but next time round all of Munich should be present for the Veronika Eberle experience."
Harald Eggebrecht, Süddeutsche Zeitung 23.02.2009
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"Weill Recital Hall
Veronika Eberle, a young German violinist, came to her New York recital debut on Friday night a seasoned prodigy. Now 20, she began her violin studies at 6 and made her concerto debut at 10. Given the prestigious awards and prominent engagements she has earned overseas, the poise, confidence and technical acumen she showed at Weill Recital Hall were anticipated.Even so, Ms. Eberle's introverted intensity and interpretive boldness made an immediate impression. Where her partner, the pianist Oliver Schnyder, was amiable and gregarious in Beethovens's Violin Sonata in G (Op. 96), Ms. Eberle was sweet and demure. Her phrases trailed off into distracted murmurs in the Adagio, lending the music an affectingly poignant ache. A formidable technique was never an end in itself; a few scattered misfires in Schubert's flashy "Rondo Brilliant" in B minor were a small price for so vibrant an account. In Janacek's Violin Sonata, part of a boomlet of Janacek works performed around town in recent weeks, Ms. Eberle and Mr. Schnyder brought out a bustle, bite and anxiety that rang true to its World War I-era gestation. The program ended with the youthful grandiosity of Richard Strauss's Violin Sonata in E flat. Mr. Schnyder greatly impressed in darker, more obsessive passages; Ms. Eberle countered with heroic lines that billowed like banners unfurled from a castle parapet. For an encore, the pair offered a buoyant third movement from Schubert's "Grand Duo" in A." Steve Smith, New York Times, February 16, 2009
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"Der Höhepunkt kam nach der Pause
Polling - Zwei Jahre liegt der erste Auftritt von Jung-Geigerin Veronika Eberle vor dem Pollinger Publikum zurück. Damals hat die Studentin von Ana Chumachenko einen starken Eindruck hinterlassen, und wenn man der hohen Besucherzahl am Donnerstagabend glauben darf, dann hat sie sich in guter Erinnerung gehalten.An ihrer Seite als Klavierpartner agierte wiederum Oliver Schnyder: Der Schweizer Pianist ist als Kammermusikpartner einer der Besten seiner Zunft. Und so durfte man gespannt sein, welche Früchte die Zusammenarbeit der beiden Künstler getragen hat. Das Pfund, mit dem Veronika Eberle zu wuchern hat, ist ihre ungeheure Sensibilität, eine Feinheit des Klangsinnes und der Detailzeichnung. Musikantisch-derbe Lust am Virtuosentum oder jugendlich-draufgängerischer Gestaltungswille ist ihre Sache nicht. Umgekehrt vermag sie sich auf diese Weise auch Werken zu nähern, die ihrer Sperrigkeit und des fehlenden oberflächlichen Glanzes wegen von Virtuosen gerne aussen vor gelassen werden. Ein solches Werk ist Beethovens späte Sonate op. 96 G-Dur. Der zarte Zuruf des Trillermotives zu Beginn leitet ein verschroben-versonnenes Themenspiel ein, ein permanentes Suchen jenseits der Grenze und ständiges sich Strecken nach Neuem hinter dem Horizont. Selten hat man das Werk so sensibel nachgezeichnet gehört, fühlte man sich mitgenommen auf der Suche nach Neuem. Beide Künstler verzichteten auf künstliches Aufbauschen der Kontraste und trafen so die endzeitliche Stimmung des Werkes. Auch Schuberts "Rondo brillant" op. 70 h-Moll trägt zwiespältige Züge: Explosive Extrovertiertheit und tänzerische Themen können die depressive Verschattung nicht verbergen; sie bilden einen grossdimensionierten Rahmen, in dem Eberle wie seltene Diamanten Schuberts herrliche Kantilenen in ihrer innigen Schlichtheit aufleuchten liess. Der Höhepunkt nach der Pause: Wie oft hat man schon Strauss' berühmte Sonate op. 16 Es-Dur gehört, und immer schien es ausgemacht, dass man den schwelgerischen Versuchungen dieses Werkes erliegen und opulenten Klangrausch zelebrieren muss. Nicht so Veronika Eberle und Oliver Schnyder: Kein fetter Klang, sondern glitzernde Farbigkeit, nicht Harmonienrausch, sondern spannendes Lauschen und Nachspüren der kühnen Tonartrückungen. In dieser abgespeckten Form war das Zuhören ein einziger Hochgenuss, kann man fast von heilsamer Entfremdung sprechen." Dagmar Becker, Merkur-Online, München, 02/2009
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