Reviews

«Simmering Volcano» (4.4.2006)
He plays with great passion and abandon. However, it is the balance between temperament and technical brilliance, between apparent rigour and making use of rhythmical possibilities that marks his interpretations. The young Lithuanian combines highest precision with impassionate abandon, sensible touch with the will to individual interpretation [...] In some sense Chaimovich is like a simmering and permanently active volcano, who sometimes gently streams music and sometimes bursts out in dangerous eruptions, yet always glittering in wonderful colours - a highly impressive spectacle!
	«Music x-rayed to the bones: A magnificent recital with Vadim Chaimovich» (6.2.07)
Vadim Chaimovich, who still looks like a student at his 28, belongs to the generation of those artists of the piano who came in contact with the piano culture at a very early age. From this source he developed the earnestness and power which surpass all the measurable and comparable. It is due to this enormous artistic potential that he takes the risk of leaving the ground of the commonly popular and pleasant in favour of piano works which, on the one hand, are not frequently performed in public and, on the other, require being interpreted from within in order to unfold their charm... ...the encores for which the public had demanded with standing ovations turned out to be treats of a light and pleasant kind. A closing movement of a Mozart sonata, an allegretto, was brilliantly metamorphosed to a presto without losing its Mozartian charm. A peaceful Mendelssohn from the Songs without words streamed like a soothing echo of a memorable evening.
«Performed with true sensibility» (20.3.04)
...Vadim Chaimovich, a 26 year old Lithuanian pianist studying in Dresden in the class of professor Peter Rösel, turned out to be the star of the evening. He had chosen some demanding and seldom-performed piano works for his recital. To come to the point: this young artist's personality inspires big hopes. Chaimovich both possesses a profound technique and is a gifted interpreter. Chaimovich began with Joseph Haydn's sonata in A flat Major, which he played with instinctive sureness and competence. [...] Before the break Chaimovich also presented Robert Schumann's Humoreske op. 20, a quite difficult work consisting of eight parts. The introduction was performed with truly Schumanesque sensibility, and then contrasting moods followed: first humorously perky, then aggressive, then once again tender, then dramatic, and in between over and over pensive moments full of poetry... After the break Chaimovich played Franz Schubert's late piano sonata in A Major D 959. Here, too, the energetic approach was predominant. However, he created contasts... astonishing virtuoso repetitions, absolutely sure touch, and alongside with this - enchanting lyrical passages. His acrobatic hands and fingers seem to be able to easily cope with anything. The audience was quite taken with the concert.
	«Every single note matteres: Chaimovich in Herxheim» (12.10.04)
Whenever a prize winner of renowned piano competitons gives a recital, the expectations are rightly high. Vadim Chaimovich exceeded all expectations and convinced the public on a very high level during his concert at the Villa Wieser of Herxheim. His playing was characterized by brilliance, tension and verve... Chaimovich possesses a rich palette of timbres, but first and foremost a sure technique. The latter allowed him to bring out all the refinements and irony of the devilishly difficult Mephisto Waltz... It was highly impressive to hear this artist and watch his hands moving.
«Virtuoso at the piano: Vadim Chaimovich performs at the Wenningsen Convent» (17.1.05)
On Sunday evening the young Lithuanian pianist Vadim Chaimovich offered the packed house an excellent performance of pieces by Schubert and Rachmaninoff. It was already at the beginning that Schubert's Impromptu in B flat major... revealed to the audience the whole wide range of the artist's skills: precise touch, elaborate technique and fine musicianship. ...neatly articulated trills and dotted notes, sparkling passages, powerful chords...
	«L'harmonie de la Paix se conjugue a l'excellence» (27.5.02)
Puis, Vadim Chaimovich a conféré son point d'orgue à la soirée. Fougueux, inventif, fin coloriste, le pianiste a livré une lecture admirable de trois oeuvres de Franz Liszt, "La Rhapsodie espagnole", le "Sonnet 104 del Pétrarque" et la diabolique "Valse de Mephisto". Difficile d'être plus proche de l'idée que l'on se fait de la perfection! Une révélation qui a suscité un tollé d'applaudissements...
«An evening full of romanticism» (19.2.08)
From the very beginning the pianist let the music just be itself... He asserted nothing except what the pieces themselves expressed... Very often the piano sounded like a complex carillon... [In the sonata op. 5 by Brahms] he went the way inwards. In the fast movements he came on strong with technical fireworks, making the beauty of the cantilenas shine in the slow movements. From these starting points he got to the core of the music. He turned his attention to the overall architecture and created opulent trends...