Classique News, Sabino Pena Arcia

Boutellis-Taft interprets [Bloch] with forceful vigor… impressive sound effects… In Janacek’s Sonata… he delights the audience with his dexterity, spirit, and great sensitivity… In the Debussy Sonata…the violin is insolent and exotic… a finely nuanced playing, with bright flashes of humor and virtuosity… In the Poem by Chausson … Virgil Boutellis-Taft offers a spectacular performance … an exquisite sensitivity in the melancholic passages and a dazzling brilliance during the moments of passionate intensity… In Bartok [he] is inflamed; his approach is… dramatic, languorous and spicy all at once… the musicians set themselves ablaze, they also inflame the public…