"Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in D minor thus begins with bouncy Bachian rhythms, followed by rapid passages, leaps and chords, mastered effortlessly by the evening's soloist Nikolay Madoyan. In the subsequent lyrical Andante, full of Mendelssohnian tonal magic, Madoyan clearly demonstrated his interpretive ability. Also, In the third movement, an Allegro in a casual gavotte style, the soloist mastered the swift tempos and cadences with brilliant elegance and exceptional technical skill."
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Süddeutsche Zeitung
The event of the evening and the driving force of the concert, however, was Nikolay Madoyan. Modest in his appearance and performance style he gave a masterly interpretation of Mozart's beautiful concerto in A major. Rising above the technical difficulties, Madoyan's tone was cultivated and his interpretation carefully thought out – a performance of genius!
"During the concert Nikolai demonstrated that he certainly had excellent technique and remarkable interpretive introspection. Obviously serious musicality of the 'Sonata in F min. op. 80' by Prokofiev, of which he gave the restless and…
IL GIORNALE
IL GIORNALE
"The Vivaldi's violin concert "The Four Seasons" was performed under Durgaryan's direction, in which, as always, the famous artist Nikolai Madoyan soloed amazingly. Brilliance and inexhaustible richness of colors were combined in his game with...
Golos Armenii
Golos Armenii
Nikolay Madoyan is an outstanding talent, he is an excellent violinist, a rare poet and a rightful master who sets the bar for other violinists. His playing can be compared to a delightful diamond that sparkles with indescribable colors.
"To make your veins and wrists tremble, the idea of facing all 24 Capricci by Niccolo Paganini in one concert [with no intermission]: this was what Nikolaj Madoev, a young and highly...
Genova Cultura
Genova Cultura
"Musician of phenomenal aptitudes, Madoyan won early international fame and already at the age of 15 became the Laureate of the Wieniawski competition (Lublin, Poland) and the...
AZG Armenian Daily
AZG Armenian Daily
"Nikolay Madoyan conquered the hearts of his listeners with the Chaconne from Bach's violin partita in D minor. The playing of this young Armenian is characterized by brilliant technique paired with the beauty of sound."
"… Nikolay Madoyan is superb in capturing the expressive, genteel nature of the music… His intonation is superb,as well as timbre, and carefully balanced. Among the...
InTune
InTune
"… Nikolay Madoyan understands Grieg marvelously well and his efforts make for a salutary comparison. Here, the somewhat rudimentary early sonatas truly live and breathe. His direct delivery, sympathetic but by no means coy, and the...
The Strad
The Strad
"Madoyan is not afraid to emphasize the Beethoven of the so-called gallant style which the composers carefully preserved, true, to different measures, in all his sonatas, but he sees in it a gallantry not of gestures, but of soul."
"Here is a recording well worth exploring – both for the music of this glorious Russian melodist and the playing. These passionate essays are given musically intelligent, imaginative, and...
American Record Guide
American Record Guide
"Madojan is one of the most successful young violinists who live in Germany. In the time of his staying in Lubeck – nearly five years – his technique, his musical expression and his artistic personality have developed in an...
Cologne, Germany
Cologne, Germany
"The event of the evening and the driving force of the concert, however, was the Armenian, Nikolay Madoyan. Modest in his appearance and performance style he gave a masterly interpretation of Mozart's beautiful Violin Concerto in A major. Rising above technical difficulties, Madoyan's tone was cultivated and his interpretation carefully thought out – a performance of genius."
"Russian violin virtuoso convinced the public despite his youth. The high quality of the Russian violin school has been proven. Paderborn (pk). The Paderborn Philharmonic could hardly...
Neue Westfälische, Germany
Neue Westfälische, Germany
"Armenian violinist Nikolay Madoyan created a furore in the audience's consciousness placing himself among the greatest violin players when he played...
Berlingske Tidende
Berlingske Tidende
"Schubert's limited output for piano and violin is well represented here by the delightful lyricism of the early, occasionally bold Sonata, with the rippling B minor Rondo (sans introductory Andante) and ambitious Fantasia characteristically Schubertian essays, forward-looking and jammed full of ideas. Madojan and Westenholz are strong, articulate, well-proportioned and mutually reciprocal partnership.
"… Nikolay Madoyan, a brilliant German virtuoso violinist who obviously knows exactly what he wants to do with a score and how to achieve perfection with his unique interpretation filled with deep, thought provoking sound."
"To embody and reproduce it all, it was necessary to have the highest form of mastery, which is exactly what Nikolay Madoyan possesses; fundamental knowledge and mastering of technical intervals, countless extents of timbres, national and stylistic peculiarities, a talent of "drawing" by means of sounds… And Madoyan, just like Itzhak Perlman, can proudly say, 'I played all the notes.'
"… In the central adagio his long flowing lines wrapped the audience in a physical stillness, while in the final movement Madoyan dazzled as he skipped brightly to a thrilling finish."
"Born in 1973, the Armenian violinist Nikolay Madoyan gives pleasing and refined performances… The tender moments of Mozartian grace in the 1820 Sonata are perfectly captured…"
"Of the two performances under review, …Nikolay Madoyan, a highly gifted product of Zachar Bron's school in Novosibirsk, has a natural feel for the right inflexion… his is the more thought-provoking. …This Kontrapunkt's CD is a good one and will not disappoint those who are attracted by the programme."
"… Nikolay Madoyan, a brilliant German virtuoso violinist who obviously knows exactly what he wants to do with a score and how to achieve perfection with his unique interpretation filled with deep, thought provoking sound."
"The singing of the melancholic passages of the 1st movement was inspired by the sonorous elegance of playing by violin virtuoso Nikolai Madojan. Madojan received well deserved long and enthusiastic approval from the audience."
"Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in D minor thus begins with bouncy Bachian rhythms, followed by rapid passages, leaps and chords, mastered effortlessly by the evening's soloist Nikolay Madoyan. In the subsequent lyrical Andante, full of Mendelssohnian tonal magic, Madoyan clearly demonstrated his interpretive ability. Also, In the third movement, an Allegro in a casual gavotte style, the soloist mastered the swift tempos and cadences with brilliant elegance and exceptional technical skill."
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Süddeutsche Zeitung
The event of the evening and the driving force of the concert, however, was Nikolay Madoyan. Modest in his appearance and performance style he gave a masterly interpretation of Mozart's beautiful concerto in A major. Rising above the technical difficulties, Madoyan's tone was cultivated and his interpretation carefully thought out – a performance of genius!
"During the concert Nikolai demonstrated that he certainly had excellent technique and remarkable interpretive introspection. Obviously serious musicality of the 'Sonata in F min. op. 80' by Prokofiev, of which he gave the restless and…
IL GIORNALE
IL GIORNALE
"The Vivaldi's violin concert "The Four Seasons" was performed under Durgaryan's direction, in which, as always, the famous artist Nikolai Madoyan soloed amazingly. Brilliance and inexhaustible richness of colors were combined in his game with...
Golos Armenii
Golos Armenii
Nikolay Madoyan is an outstanding talent, he is an excellent violinist, a rare poet and a rightful master who sets the bar for other violinists. His playing can be compared to a delightful diamond that sparkles with indescribable colors.
"To make your veins and wrists tremble, the idea of facing all 24 Capricci by Niccolo Paganini in one concert [with no intermission]: this was what Nikolaj Madoev, a young and highly...
Genova Cultura
Genova Cultura
"Musician of phenomenal aptitudes, Madoyan won early international fame and already at the age of 15 became the Laureate of the Wieniawski competition (Lublin, Poland) and the...
AZG Armenian Daily
AZG Armenian Daily
"Nikolay Madoyan conquered the hearts of his listeners with the Chaconne from Bach's violin partita in D minor. The playing of this young Armenian is characterized by brilliant technique paired with the beauty of sound."
"… Nikolay Madoyan is superb in capturing the expressive, genteel nature of the music… His intonation is superb,as well as timbre, and carefully balanced. Among the...
InTune
InTune
"… Nikolay Madoyan understands Grieg marvelously well and his efforts make for a salutary comparison. Here, the somewhat rudimentary early sonatas truly live and breathe. His direct delivery, sympathetic but by no means coy, and the...
The Strad
The Strad
"Madoyan is not afraid to emphasize the Beethoven of the so-called gallant style which the composers carefully preserved, true, to different measures, in all his sonatas, but he sees in it a gallantry not of gestures, but of soul."
"Here is a recording well worth exploring – both for the music of this glorious Russian melodist and the playing. These passionate essays are given musically intelligent, imaginative, and...
American Record Guide
American Record Guide
"Madojan is one of the most successful young violinists who live in Germany. In the time of his staying in Lubeck – nearly five years – his technique, his musical expression and his artistic personality have developed in an...
Cologne, Germany
Cologne, Germany
"The event of the evening and the driving force of the concert, however, was the Armenian, Nikolay Madoyan. Modest in his appearance and performance style he gave a masterly interpretation of Mozart's beautiful Violin Concerto in A major. Rising above technical difficulties, Madoyan's tone was cultivated and his interpretation carefully thought out – a performance of genius."
"Russian violin virtuoso convinced the public despite his youth. The high quality of the Russian violin school has been proven. Paderborn (pk). The Paderborn Philharmonic could hardly...
Neue Westfälische, Germany
Neue Westfälische, Germany
"Armenian violinist Nikolay Madoyan created a furore in the audience's consciousness placing himself among the greatest violin players when he played...
Berlingske Tidende
Berlingske Tidende
"Schubert's limited output for piano and violin is well represented here by the delightful lyricism of the early, occasionally bold Sonata, with the rippling B minor Rondo (sans introductory Andante) and ambitious Fantasia characteristically Schubertian essays, forward-looking and jammed full of ideas. Madojan and Westenholz are strong, articulate, well-proportioned and mutually reciprocal partnership.
"… Nikolay Madoyan, a brilliant German virtuoso violinist who obviously knows exactly what he wants to do with a score and how to achieve perfection with his unique interpretation filled with deep, thought provoking sound."
"To embody and reproduce it all, it was necessary to have the highest form of mastery, which is exactly what Nikolay Madoyan possesses; fundamental knowledge and mastering of technical intervals, countless extents of timbres, national and stylistic peculiarities, a talent of "drawing" by means of sounds… And Madoyan, just like Itzhak Perlman, can proudly say, 'I played all the notes.'
"… In the central adagio his long flowing lines wrapped the audience in a physical stillness, while in the final movement Madoyan dazzled as he skipped brightly to a thrilling finish."
"Born in 1973, the Armenian violinist Nikolay Madoyan gives pleasing and refined performances… The tender moments of Mozartian grace in the 1820 Sonata are perfectly captured…"
"Of the two performances under review, …Nikolay Madoyan, a highly gifted product of Zachar Bron's school in Novosibirsk, has a natural feel for the right inflexion… his is the more thought-provoking. …This Kontrapunkt's CD is a good one and will not disappoint those who are attracted by the programme."
"… Nikolay Madoyan, a brilliant German virtuoso violinist who obviously knows exactly what he wants to do with a score and how to achieve perfection with his unique interpretation filled with deep, thought provoking sound."
"The singing of the melancholic passages of the 1st movement was inspired by the sonorous elegance of playing by violin virtuoso Nikolai Madojan. Madojan received well deserved long and enthusiastic approval from the audience."