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I Musici de Montréal
Critical Acclaim:
"...every player was not only alert but brilliantly assured. It is
hard to do justice to the effect of such playing, vividly committed
from top to bottom..." Financial Times, London
"...winning, persuasive artists of the highest caliber..."
Washington Times
"This ensemble had real force, real impact...This cocktail gave us
an extremely successful evening thanks to, and principally because of,
the musicians who worked as a unit and who were visibly happy to be
there."
Le Devoir
"A highlight was the delicate phrasing of the Serenade. Turovsky
poured passion into the interpretation, but kept it from an over-romantized
reading."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"But among the chamber orchestras of international calibre that have
played at Leipzig's Gewandhaus, I Musici de Montréal stands out with a
unique character, no doubt instilled by its founder and artistic
director, Yuli Turovsky."
Leipiziger Volkszeitung
"...playing of great technical precision, warmth and fine rhythmic
elan."
Sunday Times, London
"The ensemble was very tight, even without a conductor.[Turovsky was
the cello soloist] Entrances were secure, dynamics were observed, and
rhythmic flexibility was achieved. Turovsky is a cellist of great
virtuosity and expressiveness."
Palm Beach Daily News
"A spellbindingly unified ensemble."
The Toronto Star
"Whiplash precision and tension"
Stereo Review, New York
"Most touring orchestras play it safe, but not I Musici de Montréal,
the Canadian chamber orchestra that performed Monday evening at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. Under the direction of its
energetic founding conductor Yuli Turovsky, the ensemble presented an
interestingly crafted program of both old and new music that elicited
from the audience applause as thunderous as the rain that beat down on
Palm Beach County during the afternoon."
Palm Beach Post
"I Musici proved a phenomenon...The 14 strings played with the
perfection of 14 virtuoso soloists."
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong
"The Incredible String Band"
The Independent, London
"A trio of works with string orchestra reveals a wealth of invention
and virtuosity."
BBC Music Magazine
"From this orchestra, I Musici de Montréal, comes a rich and warm
sound. Yuli Turovsky draws out of them a superb performance."
Yedioth Ahronoth, Tel Aviv
"...the performances were outstanding."
Fanfare Magazine
"...a light, highly strung group, with superb sonority, superior
organization, under the conducting of Yuli Turovsky."
Le Méridional, Marseille, France
"A contemporary French-Canadian composer, [Denis]
Gougeon's semi-theatrical work stole the show. Beginning with Turovsky
alone on stage playing the cello, orchestra members entered playing an
arpeggio of harmonics. They play the undulating piece with its many
solos until undergoing a choreographed shift for the last chord. I
thought it a marvelous and becoming mix of music and theatrics."
Piitsburgh Post-Gazette
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition Film Concert Review:
"Filmmaker Gael Hollard gave them life in video animation, which was projected
center stage and flanked by the musicians. Without resorting to showy technical
gimmickry, this was a truly artistic meeting of art forms that reached from the
humor of dancing eggs with protruding legs and beaks to ominous images in
catacombs." Birmingham News/al.com
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