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Performances and recording are superb. Jennifer Pike plays superbly throughout with technical assurance and deep commitment. Hers is the finest reading of the Violin Concerto that I have heard so far.

Hubert Culot, November 2011

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Jennifer Pike immediately evokes memories of Heifetz with her silver purity of sound and quicksilver agility, inflected by a narrow, medium-fast vibrato. What sets her apart, however, is the gentle cushioning of her lifted strokes, her
enhanced dynamic range and radiantly seductive playing during the more lyrical episodes. Where Heifetz verges on the relentless in his virtuoso intensity and brilliance, Pike gives us more light and shade, especially welcome in the finale’s
playful dance rhythms, making this her finest recording yet.

Julian Haylock, November 2012

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Miklos Rozsa wrote his Violin Concerto for Jascha Heifetz. Heifetz’s performance is incomparable, but it’s also well over half a century old and is beginning to sound its age. This brand-new version in sumptuous modern sound has the gifted young British soloist Jennifer Pike with the BBC Philharmonic and Rumon Gamba. Pike plays with an ideal blend of lyricism and technical assurance, her sense of singing lines brings out the rhapsodic eloquence of Rozsa’s writing in this work most winningly and she’s very well partnered by the BBC orchestra and Gamba. Any collector looking for a thoroughly persuasive modern version of this lovely concerto need to look no further. Pike’s way with this music is exceptionally satisfying.

Nigel Simeone, October 2012