Janine

photo © by NRC, Vincent Mentzel

I blogged Janine [1978] end 2007 - about a year ago now. She was "a great talent" then - and even a bit more than that.

Now she just won the 2008 Dutch Classical Music Award for (very important) her "sympathetic personality" and being an "ambassador for the genre". Typical Dutch bullshit! Internationally she is widely acclaimed for her MUSIC;

"Jansen is a completely winning soloist, with consistently lovely sound, a superb technique that is always at the service of the music, and a rare instinct for how and when to build towards climaxes."
Nigel Simeone, International Record Review, Feb. 2007

She was already ranking among the stars in 2006. Here is a fabulous track of Janine with the Gewandhausorchester and director Riccardo Chailly.

Enjoy