Anne Akiko Meyers: Smile

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Steve Smith wrote in the New York Times: "The violinist Anne Akiko Meyers could hardly have done a better job of adapting her usual working mode to fit the brief, casual concert she presented on Tuesday night. … Ms. Meyers has just issued an appealing new CD. … The bulk of Ms. Meyers’s program consisted of works from the disc, an eclectic collection of mostly short, tuneful pieces: Charlie Chaplin’s nostalgic 'Smile,' Astor Piazzolla’s seductive 'Milonga en Re' and 'Introducción al Ángel,' Michio Miyagi’s wistful 'Haru no Umi' ('Sea in Spring'). She played with an unfailingly sweet tone, molding her phrases like a singer. The pianist Akira Eguchi, Ms. Meyers’s partner here and on the CD, played with his customary clarity and taste. From Schubert’s Fantasy in C … the most substantial and challenging work on the disc, she offered … the closing section. If anyone needed reminding that Ms. Meyers is a performer of substance and skill, here was the proof. Her feathery lines wafted upward on Mr. Eguchi’s tremulous zephyrs during the opening bars, then the two emphatically drove through a fleet, clean finale" (2/5/09).