Delo, Ljubljana

June 29, 1993

"... Tomaz Rajteric is doubtlessly a top classical guitarist, the best among Slovene guitarists. His playing is fluent and singing, harmonically transparent and never exhibitional. His virtue is profound contemplation and dynamic serenity with a lot of genuine artistic shaping and resounding. The comparison might be hazardous but it seems like the new Segovia was born..."

"...Mr. Rajteric has demonstrated respectable interpretative resources from the very beginning of Villa-Lobos Study No.5 with elegant and tasteful timbrical differentiation of melody and accompanying voices..."

"...With the public performance of Tomaz Rajteric's (*1967) solo recital at the Krizanke Church, we have witnessed one of the most important music events of the summer theatre scene in Ljubljana of this year. Tomaz Rajteric, who has been despite his youth and some competitive achievements, courageously making his way through the Slovene music stage, performed foreign music literature for solo guitar, exclusively: three Sonatas by D. Scarlatti, Great Sonata, Op. 22 by F. Sor, Three Mexican folk songs by M.M. Ponce, Trois Saudades by the French R. Dyens, Invocation et Danse by the Spaniard J. Rodrigo and Sonata, Op. 47 by the Argentinian A. Ginastera…. His guitar play remains on the highest technical level. His profound musical expression, melodic and rhythmical interventions are remarkable and number him among excellent musicians and their works. A first-class instrument - the guitar, excellent music memory and the right programme dosage were the main emphases of his public performance. His almost inaudible pianissimos prove to be the utmost technical and musical achievements of what he showed in his solo concert in Ljubljana..."

"...Probably the most precious quality of Mr. Rajteric is his natural, personal and indispensable connection with fragile and lyrical breadth of guitar. On one side he is a ˝believer˝ of his instrument and on the other he approaches to it with serenity of sovereign musician...Undoubtedly first rank guitarist..."

"... The guitar recital of Mr. Rajteric is on exeptional level...It is high-seasoned with a great deal of performing qualities, strong musicality and of course with brilliant guitar technique..."

"...Guitarist Tomaz Rajteric is a sensitive musical personality. It seems like he is impregnated with a subtletly of guitar sound. Little pieces by Dowland, originally written for lute, became in his hands stylistically accomplished masterpieces with delicate ornamentation. The execution of Bach Suite No.2 for lute in C-minor confirmed as well his outstanding knowledge of stylistic particularities: sound balance, transparent voice leading in polyphonic movement and logical construction of a whole frome individual phrases... A great deal of beauty and expressivness with great range of dynamics was heard in an exellent interpretation of Quatre Pieces Breves, the sole guitar work by the Swiss composer Frank Martin. A completely different sound world Mr. Rajteric offered us in a Dusan Bogdanović Introduction and Passacaglia for the Golden Flower where his guitar sound approached to the sound of Indian sitar... His masterly and technically perfect playing Mr. Rajteric fullfils with a poetry of sound. His interpretations always favour expressiveness and musicality. He is a sensitive creator of moods, extremely concentrated and persuasive. In such a manner all melodic phrases and sound effects find corresponding reflection of his feelings in the audience..."

Days of Slovenian music 1996
"...Concerto for guitar by Kos is undoubtedly the great artistic challenge, the real guitar concerto with a decent instrumentation which never covers the soloist whose part is incessantly active. Tomaz Rajteric performed the work with perfect clarity of sound and formal construction..."

"...Tomaz Rajteric interpreted the infallible Spanish melos from "Suita Espagnola" by Isaac Albeniz with delicate sensivity for sound coloring..."

"...Guitarist has in his characteristical manner of gentle music making splendidly performed Brouwer's piece, and brilliantly concluded his succesful recital with Granados, for who it seems to be on the same sound wave with Rajteric..."

"...Guitarist Tomaz Rajteric enraptured the public in the great Philharmonic hall with his clear singing sound and artistic truthfulness..."