Na de UK is nu de US aan de beurt. Dit is uit de New York Times van 20 september dit jaar:
This Dutch violinist, in her late 20’s, has become best known for a chamber-scale recording of Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” that became a hit on iTunes early this year. The cover shows Ms. Jansen in a gauzy, low-cut dress, reclining in a plush chair and dangling her violin lazily over its armrest. In interviews, she has distanced herself from her marketing, and at the museum she wore a sleeveless pink gown somewhat more demure than Anne-Sophie Mutter’s usual concert attire.
Now that she has everyone’s attention, Ms. Jansen is selling what she ought to be selling: fresh, energetic, thoughtful musicmaking. She produces a lovely, supple tone, slightly lighter than it sounds on disc, although in the most hard-driven passages of Vivaldi’s “Summer” Concerto, and the fast movements of Bach’s Concerto in E (BWV 1042) and the Double Concerto in D minor (BWV 1043), her playing was as forceful as you could want.
In the two Bach works, Ms. Jansen’s shading of the solo line and dynamic manipulations yielded carefully characterized, persuasive readings, and if her interpretive tinkering sometimes drew her toward a Romantic expressive style, her tempos and restrained vibrato were fully of the Baroque world (or at least modern conceptions of it). In the Bach allegros, she drew on a palette of bright hues that affirmed the music’s muscularity, without making it into Brahms. And in the Larghetto e Spiritoso slow movement of the E major Concerto, she produced a magnificent pianissimo that floated sweetly over the accompaniment.
Ms. Jansen took a similar approach to the Double Concerto, for which she was joined by Eriko Sato, one of Orpheus’s violinists. The dialogue between the solo lines was generally balanced, and both Orpheus and the soloists made the most of the hall’s acoustics by sharply accenting punctuating chords in the allegros and letting them resound through the hall.
This effect was also put to striking use in Ms. Jansen’s closing work, “Summer” from the “Four Seasons,” as well it might be, given the score’s vivid depiction of a violent thunderstorm, gathering in the first two movements and unleashed in all its fury in the finale. Ms. Jansen didn’t skimp on other painterly details, either: the bird calls and the shepherd’s pining, in the first movement, were depicted gracefully, and in an unusual touch (also heard on her recording), she had the sizzling figuration that ends the first movement fade to a pianissimo and move, without pause, into the Adagio.
En van een willekeurige Amerikaanse web-log:
Jansen's performance tonight left absolutely no doubt that she's a soloist of the first rank. Physically, she's a player of the body-rockin' Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg school, blonde hair flying and horsehair shredding. She pumped her right shoulder when preparing for more rugged entrances, making faces at the maestro as she launched into the music. But Jansen also played with tremendous delicacy when the score called for it, and boasted the most secure command of the instrument's highest notes and harmonics of any violinist I have ever heard in concert. Double- and triple-stops posed no difficulty, and she made the effort of simultaneously bowing and plucking notes on the neck seem like child's play.