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Skride's playing is unfailingly intelligent - her virtuosity is allied to a sure sense of the work's [Tchaikovsky vc] emotional range. Her tone is full but beautifully controlled, and her phrasing throughout has a natural flair that is compelling clear-headed, thoughtful and convincing. (International Record Review)

The Tone Fairy
Classical discovery Baiba Skride bewitches silver tones from her violin

"An unmistakable sound, which causes Baiba Skride to be lifted up on waves of applause on the occasion of her first performance at the Salzburg Mozarteum Festival. Again and again she returns to the stage, gives glorious encores.
Along with Chinese piano virtuoso Lang Lang, Baiba Skride may well be the classical discovery of the year. (Vogue)

On her way to violin paradise
Her trademark is her dense, clear tone: The violinist Baiba Skride is the heiress of Hillary Hahn.

She interprets the violin evergreen, the 3rd violin concert, smoothly, turns Schubert's A-major Rondo into a warm-up exercise and ascends to violin paradise with Michael Haydn's B-major concert. Here Skride's trademark is also clear: A certain, clear sound developed from the mass of tones. (Welt am Sonntag)