REVIEWS
Songs of the Roma - Liverpool Sound and Vision
“The beauty of a cello playing underneath songs which didn’t haunt but lifted, like a film score of which you become unaware until the effect of it has transformed scenes. Here, its beauty was as theatrical as it was melodic. Justyna Jablonska has a serious contribution made with such glorious intent.”
British Theatre Guide, September 2024
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
Story - Ben Harrison, Music - David Paul Jones
“Justyna Jablonska’s work on cello brought a stunning diversity to the play, often underscoring key moments and enriching each song with a mournful undertone.”
A Young(ish) Perspective, September 2024
“Cellist Justyna Jablonska accompanies the cast on stage and her exquisite playing adds another level of intensity to the magnificent music.”
Lisa in the theatre, September 2024
“[…]this odyssey undertaken by Simon Thacker is abetted by the prodigious cellist Justyna Jablonska. Hardly along for the ride, though, Jablonska embraces the richness of her instrument and the repertoire with enigmatic brilliance. It’s only when you read through the exhaustively detailed booklet notes by Simon Thacker that you realise that Justyna Jablonska has Roma heritage, which makes the blood coursing through her veins bittersweet, wonderful and part of a soundworld so big that it seems rooted not only in her demonstrably classical one, but also in a peripatetic Roma spirit as well. The mystical imagination in Justyna Jablonska’s playing never runs out; not in the “Karmana” suite, or in the ethereally beautiful Gaelic music that follows it as well.”
World Music Report, 2017
