Discography

Hartmann, Ravel, Sadikova

Farao Classics, June 2025

Rebekka Hartmann

Rachmaninoff International Orchestra

Kent Nagano

Reviews:

 

Bremen Zwei, “Klassikwelt”

“Rebekka Hartmann – truly a fabulous violinist!”

– (Wilfried Schäper, August 3, 2025)

Fono Forum

“Rebekka Hartmann, a world-class violinist.”

– (Burkhard Schäfer, September 2025)

Qobuz Magazine

“Hartmann, Ravel & Sadikova is far more than a simple expansion of the repertoire. It is a plea for cultural openness, musical diversity, and for building bridges through art. The Rachmaninoff International Orchestra, made up of outstanding musicians from Western and Eastern Europe, proves to be the ideal ensemble for this recording. Under the direction of Kent Nagano, the orchestra succeeds in giving soloist Rebekka Hartmann the space and sonic depth that extend far beyond the concert hall.”

– (Lena Germann, July 1, 2025)

Hochfranken-Feuilleton

“Rebekka Hartmann can fully rely on the unfailingly clear and transformably virtuosic tone she draws from her violin—allowing her to shine, as she indeed does in Ravel’s folkloristic, Magyar-inspired rhapsody. Yet even in this work, so often abused for mere showmanship, she delves sonically into intuition: in her namesake Hartmann’s Concerto funebre, that intuition cloaks itself fatalistically in the suggestive shadows of mournful anxiety, while in Sadikova’s shifting emotional panorama, it touches the very edge of catastrophe.“

– (Michael Thumser, July 19, 2025)

Out of the shadow - Rebekka Hartmann

Out of the shadow

Solo Musica, September 2018

Rebekka Hartmann & Salzburg Chamber Soloists

Lavard Skou Larsen

Giuseppe Tartini

Joseph Haydn

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Reviews:

 

“… Rebekka Hartmann’s commitment to these concerts is to be welcomed, which she would like to bring› out of the shadows ‹. She does this in a style-appropriate, musically sincere and cultivated … “

– (Fono Forum, March 2019)

Komponist: Paul Juon Silhouettes op. 9 und op. 43

Paul Juon

Musiques Suisses, May 2015

Reviews:

 

“…. a serious but light and curious approach to every single movement…..”

– The New Listener

“[….] appealing play full of commitment. The sound is brilliant, well balanced and dynamically moving with a natural flow….”

– Klassik.com

Views from Ararat - Rebekka Hartmann - Violine & Margarita Organesjan - Klavier

Views from Ararat

Farao Classics, 2015

Ahmed Adnan Saygun

Arno Babadschanjan

Edward Baghdassarian

Reviews:

 

“[……..] a phenomenal range of different shades and colours [……] skilful handling of vibrato planned to the minute detail and used very moderately so that it always serves a purpose instead of softening every key with duration into something uncertain, as it is often done these days. “

-The New Listener

“[….] a musical panorama putting folkloric fiddling next to Stradivari-melos and hammering drumming next to piano magic as if it were a natural thing to do so. ”

– Hessischer Rundfunk 2

Birth of the Violin

Solo Musica, May 2011

Johann Paul von Westhoff
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Johann Georg Pisendel
Francesco Geminiani
Nicola Matteis
Louis-Gabriel Guillemain
Friedrich Wilhelm Rust

Reviews:

 

“Her captivating technique, the striking dexterity and her tremendous handling of the bow […] completely serve […] an extraordinary lively playing.”

-KLASSIK HEUTE

“[…] the attraction of five world première recordings combined with such impressive playing makes this a valuable release.”

– MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL

“A completely enchanting release showing that there was music for solo violin before Bach [and] this CD […] will please listeners for many years to come.”

– THE LISTENER

Rebekka Hartmann

Farao Classics, 2006

Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita II in d-moll, BWV 1004

Paul Hindemith
Sonate für Violine solo, op. 11/6

Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Sonate für Violine solo

Reviews:

 

“Bach’s Baroque […] shines on, from Hindemith’s classicism to the twelve-tone music of the young Bernd Alois Zimmermann. A promising debut.”

-KULTURSPIEGEL

“The soloist […] strikes the right tone. Sometimes melodic, sometimes disturbing, then again cheering and encouraging – music as a soul universe, shadowed and enlightening at the same time.”

– DAS ORCHESTER