Eckernfoerder Zeitung, July 6, 2000

Chamber music with plenty of passion

This concert certainly was one of the rare kind that creates a lasting effect for months.

The audience reacted with enthusiasm to the duo-evening. Lara St. John and Peter Bruns played on a level that is far beyond the customary chamber music concert. In addition to the effortless control of all things technical, there was above all intensity with which they listened to each other.

The artists showed a highly developed sense for the harmonious effects, for colors and shades.

In the "Sonate pour violin and violoncello" of the French composer Maurice Ravel, the artists knew to connect in a singular fashion the feel of sound and refinement with cool austerity. In the third movement, the Lento, they developed such a tension that one could have heard a pin drop to the floor.

The performance consisted of so much drama as one hardly hears from other musicians. Both musicians had the courage to play in an unorthodox and spontaeous manner.

Their playing had such rare qualities as one only experiences them few times in a life time.