San Francisco Chronicle, September 16, 2005

By JOSHUA KOSMAN

Midori was on hand to bring her incisive sound and fearless sense of lyricism to Prokofiev's First Violin Concerto. ... Midori, as always, brought her considerable artistic arsenal to bear on the Prokofiev, delivering the hallucinatory first movement with sweet, slightly glassy tone and incomparable precision. She also dug into the central scherzo with winning ferocity.