★★★★★
Recorded at Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver on two nights in November, 2003, "Double Violin Concerto" features violinists Mark O'Connor and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop. "Double Violin Concerto" was composed by O'Connor in 1997 and is his third symphonic concerto. Mark's goal was to achieve blues, jazz, swing and big band feelings, and he shows an extraordinary ability to accomplish it as only a virtuoso can...
- rootsmusicreport.com
2014-01-30
★★★★★
Recorded at Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver on two nights in November, 2003, "Double Violin Concerto" features violinists Mark O'Connor and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop. "Double Violin Concerto" was composed by O'Connor in 1997 and is his third symphonic concerto. Mark's goal was to achieve blues, jazz, swing and big band feelings, and he shows an extraordinary ability to accomplish it as only a virtuoso can...
- rootsmusicreport.com
2014-02-20
★★★★★
Violinist and composer Mark O'Connor is a musical deconstructionist. He takes big musical themes and breaks them down into small components that he manipulates in modern and heartfelt ways. On his most recent disc, Quartets No.'s 2 & 3, O'Connor takes on two American traditions, bluegrass and old-time music, and turns them into abstract string quartets, resembling something Aaron Copeland might have created during the 1950s in their formal combination of robust vitality and folk motifs...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
The amazing thing about fiddler-composer Mark Oâ??Connor is that he'd be equally at home on stage playing country with George Jones, jazz with Wynton Marsalis or classical music with Itzhak Perlman. For this third outing with guitarist Frank Vignola and bassist Jon Burr, O'Connor's starting point is the fleet-fingered swing of his mentor, French violinist Stéphane Grappelli, and the great Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt...
- latimesblogs.latimes.com
2010-04-02
★★★★★
This Mark O'Connor is not the well-known violinist, but a Chicago tenor saxophonist with the same name. And a very good saxophonist he is. On Mirage, his debut album, O'Connor and an assortment of first-rate local colleagues offer an attractive program of straightahead, modern-mainstream compositions and improvisations worthy of anyone's attention...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
As one of Nashville's top session musicians since 1984,29-year-old O'Connor has played fiddle, mandolin, and guitar onhundreds of records, providing everything from routine backup workfor such performers as Lacy J. Dalton and Randy Travis to showcasefiddling on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's Will the Circle Be Unbroken,Volume Two...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Violinist Mark O'Connor joined forces with bassist Jon Burr and guitarist Frank Vignola for this sensational concert in tribute to Stephane Grappelli, the grand old man of jazz violin until his death just shy of 90 in 1997. O'Connor was captivated by the Frenchman's playing at an early age and played along side him on several occasions, while Burr was Grappelli's regular bassist during the final decade of his career...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Mark O'Connor is one of the most difficult musicians to categorize, especially when listening to a stunning release such as Crossing Bridges. Although his roots are in bluegrass, he is equally at home performing or composing jazz and classical music while freely mingling elements of each genre into a project. The violinist's meeting with violist Carla Cook and cellist Natalie Haas might be described as chamber music without boundaries...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Read by Garrison Keillor, music by Mark O'Connor.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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