PRESS - ‘POWER, COHERENCE, LINE’

Diapason praises Kristiina’s concert with the National Orchestra of France which took place on April 10 2025.

Diapason: “As the creators of the Quartet No. 7, the Diotima Quartet displays complete command in its expansion, speaking this infinitely complex musical language with remarkable ease. Perfectly attuned to one another, they and the Orchestre National de France have found in Kristiina Poska a rare kind of mediator: sober yet spirited, energetic yet supple, giving voice and freedom to all, while skillfully guiding the ensemble playing that, in the truest sense of the word, defines this ‘concerto.”

“What strikes one in these four celebrated movements is the power of the gesture, the coherence of the expression, and the art of the line. There is no redundancy, no appropriation, and certainly no manierism: the precision of the score is the guiding principle, and its respect, the law.”

“Let us applaud the excellence of the soloists, the gradual unfolding of dynamics, the breadth of contrasts, the rhythmic precision, the interplay between themes, whether gentle or assertive, and the acceleration that leads naturally to the final Presto. One savors the richness of textures, subtly brought to light, the articulation of a classical architecture that dares to slip, to invent a ‘counter-theme’ of lively syncopations, to feign an ending only to begin again, and to link ideas together with not a single dead moment.”