Browse: Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)

Zimmermann has fully absorbed the slightly eclectic style of [the First Concerto] and produces a performance of conviction, not to mention dazzling virtuosity. Hrůša accompanies with understanding... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

If not the last word, Zimmermann’s interpretations are the most impressive I have heard in recent years. The tone is magnificently focused, occasionally throaty but without excessive vibrato.... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Where this set really comes into its own is with the 20th-century concertos, most especially the Berg, a work whose combination of Romantic cantabile, emotional thrust and tonally stretched world-weariness... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

With Jakub Hrůša and his super-attentive Bamberg orchestra, Frank Peter Zimmermann trumps the self-confident projection of his younger self...Stravinsky’s framing movements seem defter now, particularly... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2024 More…

This is masterly playing of music full of challenges and pitfalls, lucidly argued and often poetically felt. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Frank Peter Zimmermann and Martin Helmchen are an outstanding team, whose latest release brings their three-disc survey to an uplifting conclusion...Finest of all is the reading of the elusive... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The nervous energy and lightning-quick changes of mood of the opening movement in the Op. 3 Trio are brilliantly conveyed...these are supremely polished accounts, and they make an altogether... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…