Fionnuala Hunt - violin
“The performances concentrate on the basic and seductive dance rhythm, and the tangos popular aspects are never submerged beneath elaborate orchestration. With Hunt’s sweet and fast vibrato, and tempos just gently massaged without disturbing the music’s flow…” The Strad, December 2005
“Fionnuala Hunt wields her bow with appropriately haughty panache in her own sweet orchestral arrangements of famous tangos. Definitely danceable.”
Classic fM Magazine, December 2005
“Fionnuala Hunt performs her own arrangements of famous Tangos and Dances on this hugely enjoyable album. She takes these sultry melodies, rooted in the life of the bordellos and backstreets of Buenos Aires, and transforms them into something suave and bittersweet…Hunt’s playing is sweet-toned and suble with a rare sense of delicacy.” Metro, November 2005
“She’s certainly paid tribute to the song legacy of tango with care and affection.” Classical CD Review, October 2005
“Hunt’s skilful string arrangements captured the music’s inherent jazzy spirit, while her own solo playing resembled the keenly-tuned nasal sound of that tango instrument par excellence, the bandeon.”
Irish times, June 2005
“Fionnuala Hunt is a fine and powerful violinist. Her runs were lightning-fast and smooth; her passagework was at times glittering and evanescent, at times rough-hewn and gutsy…”
The Intelligencer, Wheeling, West Viginia, USA, January 2000
“..Miss Hunt displayed an impressively controlled range of dynamics and drew a matching response from the Orchestra.”
Easter Daily Press, March 1999
“…Fionnuala Hunt, whose silken tone and emotional depth brought aural pleasure….”
Herald-Tribune, USA, April 1999
“Fionnuala Hunt was first rate…there were many telling details of phrasing and articulation in her performance.”
The Independent, London, July 1997
“Fionnuala Hunt had plenty to do alone…..the results were relaxed and profoundly spiritual.”
Independent on Sunday, London, April 1994