Kochanovsky mastered the performance from start to finish, giving us a fine demonstration of his art. Elegant and proud, he seems made to conduct the "Eroica".
Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia proposed a risk program that resulted in one of those successes that demonstrates how the orchestra performs when it is in good hands.
...conductor held the orchestra’s toes to the fire straight through the masterful first movement. Tedium gained no foothold in a performance that never languished and never lost its drive.
Every debut with a new orchestra is a special moment you never forget. But the famous Cleveland Orchestra is definitely one of the most extraordinary musical institutions in the world.
The Philharmonia Orchestra’s all-Russian programme last night with an orgasmic F sharp major triad flooded in violet light.
Kochanovsky with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester had many of the answers. In particular, his ear for the deeply sinister undertones that pervade the opening movement created a compelling narrative of nightmarish sequences and grotesquerie.
Russian conductor Stanislav Kochanovsky, in a noteworthy U.S. Washington D.C. debut, leads two mammoth pieces of Russian romanticism.
The result is one of the best interpretations we have ever heard...
Avec son allure aristocratique comme sorti d’un roman de Tchekhov, le chef russe a bien maîtrisé la complexité du propos malgré quelques menus flottements que seuls les bons connaisseurs de l’œuvre ont pu relever.
Telle est l’image lourde de sens et de symbole qu’a applaudi, debout, le public de l’Auditorium Rainier III, dimanche lors d’un éblouissant concert donné par le Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo.