HIS TECHNICAL APLOMB IN VERY CHALLENGING VIOLIN WORKS QUALIFIES HIM AS A TOP FLIGHT VIRTUOSO....SMOOTH, UNRUFFLED TONE PRODUCTION, EVEN IN THE MOST TAXING PASSAGES. THE SOUND DEMERTZIS PRODUCES IS ALWAYS CLEAN AND RAZOR-SHARP, UNMARRED BY ANY ABRASIVENESS IN THE DOUBLE STOPS OR PASSAGES THAT CALL FOR ASSERTIVE BOWING. - FANFARE
THE FINGERS RUN FLAWLESSLY BUT THE HEART HAS PLENTY OF ROOM TO HOVER IN THE HORIZON. THREE CHEERS, THEREFORE, FOR GEORGIOS DEMERTZIS, WHO PLAYS THESE MUSICALLY AND TECHNICALLY CHALLENGING SCORES WITH AN IMPASSIONED SENSITIVITY THAT UNCOVERS REALMS OF EXPRESSION PREVIOUSLY BARELY HINTED AT... THIS MUSIC SEEMINGLY HOLDS NO TERRORS FOR HIM; INDEED HE ALWAYS MANAGES TO FIND TIME TO PERSUASIVELY SWING A PHRASE UNDER EVEN THE MOST FEARSOME TECHNICAL PRESSURE. - THE STRAD
Testimonials
the earlier sonata by Skalkottas, is a work of concentrated achievement within the course of its four movement, twelve minute length. Even in this early-days period of his compositional development, one senses Skalkottas's occasionally bristling vocabulary. Georgios Demertzis (BIS CD 1024).... reveals .... the numbness that lies in the work's bloodstream and also a very slightly abrasive take on its modernity. |
Nielsen's Early Chamber works " were all composed before Nielsen turned 25....the uncertainties of a young man at times shine through in these scores, as do ....various influences ..... Mozart is there, and Beethoven, and Mendelssohn - and the infectious joy of a budding artist ... |
GEORGE DEMERTZIS MAY NOT HAVE A REPUTATION AKIN TO THAT OF THE EXTRAORDINARY LEONIDAS KAVAKOS,... BUT THOSE OF US FAMILIAR WITH DEMERTZIS' PERFORMANCES AND RECORDINGS KNOW HOW BRILLIANT HE IS, |