by admin | Jul 26, 2018 | Press & Media
Mark Swed Los Angeles Times “(…) The performances were alluringly malleable. Denève, who becomes music director of the St. Louis Symphony next year, squeezed orchestral details out as though they were colored paints in tubes. What was meant to be tender...
by admin | Mar 24, 2018 | Press & Media
Mark Satola cleveland.com “(…) His performances of the Poulenc concerto and Rachmaninoff’s second symphony Thursday night are a good indication of why his Brussels and Philly appointments were recently extended. (…) Deneve managed balances...
by admin | Aug 5, 2017 | Press & Media
Geraldine Freedman The Daily Gazette “(…) Selections from Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker Suite” were exuberant and light as air. Deneve set brisk tempos, got seamless ensemble work and lots of flair. (…) Tchaikovsky’s “Solemn Overture, 1812” sounded...
by admin | Jul 27, 2017 | Press & Media
Richard S. Ginell LA Times “Stéphane Denève continues his rise in the symphonic ranks, having just been appointed to succeed David Robertson as music director of the St. Louis Symphony, starting in the 2019-2020 season. The Los Angeles Philharmonic already knows...
by admin | Jul 22, 2017 | Press & Media
David Patrick Stearns Philly.com “(…) most works on the all-Tchaikovsky program would have been exhausted from over-exposure long ago were it not for succeeding generations of performers re-interpreting the music in ways that keep it communicative. Denève...
by admin | Mar 21, 2017 | Press & Media
Mark Swed Los Angeles Times “(…) The concert began with the Passacaglia from Benjamin Britten’s “Peter Grimes (…) Denève condensed a remarkable amount of the psychic energy of the opera into seven minutes. (…) The dapper Thibaudet, in a red...