By JAMES MCQUILLEN

[Midori's] performance of Jean Sibelius' Violin Concerto was a perfect marriage of piece and player, projecting quiet intensity and effortless virtuosity, free of sentiment or flamboyance. ...Her technical skills were as impressive as ever in the wildly demanding solo line, with abundant biting double stops, fast and furious string crossing, breakneck passages all over the fingerboard and stratospheric, laser-focused high notes. But her virtuosity never drew attention to itself: the point was the poetry of the piece, which she and the orchestra under Carlos Kalmar approached with subdued but unmistakable passion. Her attention to the players, and theirs to her, made for a brilliant collaboration.