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  • Debut Recording: Origins (Orchid Classics)

    Mar 2022

    • I can well imagine that before long Coco Tomita will be celebrated among the best younger violinists...

    • In the opening movement of Ravel’s Violin Sonata No. 2 Tomita combines tonal sweetness with a welcome tensile element […]. In the central ‘Blues’ movement Tomita enjoys the jazzy swoops and slides without over-doing them, and her pizzicatos have a crack of emotional urgency to them. […] This is a fresh, consistently stimulating account of Ravel’s sonata. In Poulenc’s Violin Sonata sparks fly in the opening movement, as they should, the astringent edges sharpened by Tomita’s clean attack and spot-on intonation. …this is a richly promising recording debut.

    • ...the BBC young violinist’s debut is a winner… The playing, technically dazzling and characterful, bursts with musical intelligence […]. The choice of repertoire, of her own devising, is a refreshing mix.

    • A head-turning debut from BBC Young Musician strings winner… …this crisply captured programme […] is outstanding. …there’s the sinuously curling, time-suspended beauty that Tomita weaves for Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne; her more softly cloaked tone for Debussy’s Beau soir; and the world of colour and emotion that she packs into just the first phrase of Hubay’s glittering Fantaisie brillante, moving from a piercingly poignant wail to sweet tenderness. More please.

    • 10 Best Classical Albums of the month (April 2022) This superb debut album emerged from Coco Tomita’s triumph in the Strings category of the 2020 BBC Young Musician competition. […] the Japanese violinist gives us a well-chosen selection of (mainly) early 20th-century music for violin and piano […] each brilliantly differentiated and characterized, reveal a big musical personality

      • Apple Music
      • 07 March 2022