Jeffrey Noel Lastrapes, Cello
Reviews
“An excellent cellist with consummate technical mastery, Lastrapes is a seasoned performer whose strong, outgoing personality lets him shape the music on a big canvas with bold colors
and contours. His pacing is balanced, his phrasing elegant; with spontaneous, personal expressiveness, he draws the audience in from first note to last.”
New York Concert Review New York, NY
"Cellist Jeffrey Lastrapes invariably produces a beautifully silken, oaken tone; the top notes are unusually sweet and free from any hint of wiriness, while the lower register is richly burnished but not opaque."
Fanfare Magazine
“Lastrapes’ sound...multifaceted, able to cut like steel at his attack and become rich, round, and sweet before the bow has crossed the string.”
[It began with] “Lastrapes’ rocketing fanfare opening.” [Lastrapes} “deftly singled out the moments when the cello broke the boundaries and used them expressively.”
“Transcriptions for cello of ‘Leibeslied’ and the flashy ‘Chinese Tambourine,’ and of Kreisler’s adaptation of Gluck’s ‘Melodie,’ were played elegantly with all the precision, panache and romanticism of Kreisler himself.”
Hampshire Union News Springfield, MA
“a tremendous artistic temperament.”
La Segunda, Santiago, Chile
“Lastrapes proved a vigorous player who doesn’t stoop to showmanship for showmanship’s sake. Distracting mannerisms and affectation are absent from his playing, his every action seemingly in the service of the music.”
“During slower passages, Lastrapes and his 318-year-old Ruggeri cello produced rich, round tones and a strong, expressive vibrato. Likewise at his command were the digital demands of swift passages."
The Advocate, Baton Rouge, LA
and contours. His pacing is balanced, his phrasing elegant; with spontaneous, personal expressiveness, he draws the audience in from first note to last.”
New York Concert Review New York, NY
"Cellist Jeffrey Lastrapes invariably produces a beautifully silken, oaken tone; the top notes are unusually sweet and free from any hint of wiriness, while the lower register is richly burnished but not opaque."
Fanfare Magazine
“Lastrapes’ sound...multifaceted, able to cut like steel at his attack and become rich, round, and sweet before the bow has crossed the string.”
[It began with] “Lastrapes’ rocketing fanfare opening.” [Lastrapes} “deftly singled out the moments when the cello broke the boundaries and used them expressively.”
“Transcriptions for cello of ‘Leibeslied’ and the flashy ‘Chinese Tambourine,’ and of Kreisler’s adaptation of Gluck’s ‘Melodie,’ were played elegantly with all the precision, panache and romanticism of Kreisler himself.”
Hampshire Union News Springfield, MA
“a tremendous artistic temperament.”
La Segunda, Santiago, Chile
“Lastrapes proved a vigorous player who doesn’t stoop to showmanship for showmanship’s sake. Distracting mannerisms and affectation are absent from his playing, his every action seemingly in the service of the music.”
“During slower passages, Lastrapes and his 318-year-old Ruggeri cello produced rich, round tones and a strong, expressive vibrato. Likewise at his command were the digital demands of swift passages."
The Advocate, Baton Rouge, LA
