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April 2012 – Classic Clarinet – Sunday Business Post
Jörg Widmann – ‘Insel der Sirenen’, ‘Fantasie’
Mozart – Clarinet Concerto
Mendelssohn – Symphony No 1
“The audience was soon basking in the radiant glow of Widmann’s musical brilliance …….Widmann’s daring and intriguing choice deserves credit as does the sharp and energetic performance of his orchestra. The audience truly appreciated a winning debut”.
Dick O Riordan, Sunday Business Post
April 2012 – Classic Clarinet – Irish Times
Jörg Widmann – ‘Insel der Sirenen’, ‘Fantasie’
Mozart – Clarinet Concerto
Mendelssohn – Symphony No 1
“This showed both the Irish Chamber Orchestra and its new principal guest conductor Jörg Widmann from a variety of perspectives”. Michael Dungan, Irish Times
February 2012 – World Première – Irish Times
February 2012
Irish Chamber Orchestra
Gábor Takács-Nagy Conductor
Daniel Bates Oboe
“The music is in a spare, focused, linear style that, in this performance fired up moments of fierce trumpet-topped intensity…..The ICO played it as if their very lives depended on it. Michael Dervan, Irish Times
February 2012 – World Première – Irish Examiner
Irish Chamber Orchestra
Gábor Takács-Nagy Conductor
Daniel Bates Oboe
“Edge of the seat excitement was the atmosphere that conductor, Gáor Tákacs-Nagy and the ICO created in the orchestra’s first concert of 2012”…….He drew such a brilliantly differentiated palette of colours and dynamics from the players that the excitement never let up”. Declan Townsend, The Examiner
December 2011 – Seasonal Symphony and Song – Irish Times
Irish Chamber Orchestra, NationalChamberChoir, ICO Chorus, County Limerick Youth Choir, Jaime Martin Director, Susanne Bernhard Soprano
“The stimulation came from the depth of detailed thought behind Martin’s music-making.” – Michael Dervan, 20th December 2011, Irish Times
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February 2012 – World Première – Irish Examiner
Irish Chamber Orchestra
Gábor Takács-Nagy Conductor
Daniel Bates Oboe
“Edge of the seat excitement was the atmosphere that conductor, Gáor Tákacs-Nagy and the ICO created in the orchestra’s first concert of 2012”…….He drew such a brilliantly differentiated palette of colours and dynamics from the players that the excitement never let up”. Declan Townsend, The Examiner
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