ELGAR VIOLIN CONCERTO
STENHAMMAR TWO SENTIMENTAL ROMANCES
2020
The CD is among BBC Music Magazine´s "Best classical albums released in 2020"
https://www.classical-music.com/features/recordings/the-best-classical-albums-released-in-2020/
"...Triin Ruubel is less well-known worldwide, but she’s a top-notch violinist, and the fact that she spends much of her time as leader of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra means some ideal fine tuning with her fellow players, in naturally balanced sound, for what amounts to a symphony-concerto; the non-showy way in which the soloist comes to life on her first entry is typical of the interpretation. Musical lines swell from the introspective to the extrovert and back; bravura comes to the fore in the finale, only for time to stand still in that most magical of all cadenzas..."
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BBC Music Magazine
"...We all have our different favourites when it comes to a major work like Elgar's Violin Concerto, and in a crowded market this new disc has the virtue of making us listen again. The elegance, the sense of line and the fine grain to Ruubel's violin playing are allied to a fine technique and a sympathy to the ebb and flow of complex emotion in this work, and in this she is finely supported by Neeme Järvi and the orchestra..."
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MIHKEL KEREM: VIOLIN CONCERTO, CELLO CONCERTO, SYMPHONY NO.6
ARTUR LEMBA: CHAMBER MUSIC; VOLUME ONE
2025
‘’Needless to say, Triin Ruubel plays it most attractively as she does the remainder of the
programme. She forms a fine, stylish partnership with Sten Lassmann and treats the music
with discretion and deftness. Lemba could have no finer ambassadors for his music for
violin and piano."
Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb International
"...there are beautiful passages, and Ruubel employs a gorgeous sound, full of color.
In the second violin sonata, the shimmer of the violinist’s playing in the upper registers takes away the breath, and the second theme in I is beautifully rendered."
Kellenberger, American Record Guide
"...violinist Triin Ruubel and her musical partner Sten Lassmann—will surely launch this Sonata into the repertory of other violinists. It is, to my ears, nearly the equal of the beloved A-Major Sonata of Faure , with which it shares stylistic affinities. Ruubel particularly shines as she milks the heart-melting melody of the second movement for all it’s worth."
David DeBoor Canfield, Fanfare
American Record Guide "CRITIC´S Choice 2025"
