La cheffe d’orchestre helvético australienne Elena Schwarz sublime l’opéra de Dvořák. L’Orchestre philharmonique de Nice palpite avec beaucoup de chaleur sous sa direction. (Crescendo Magazine)
La cheffe d’orchestre helvético australienne Elena Schwarz sublime l’opéra de Dvořák. L’Orchestre philharmonique de Nice palpite avec beaucoup de chaleur sous sa direction. (Crescendo Magazine)
Elena Schwarz’s joint kick-off concert on the occasion of the Ligeti anniversary year last January, the opening concert of Musica Nova in Helsinki, and her widely acclaimed Salzburg Festival debut (2023) together with Klangforum Wien, were already an indicative harbinger of a future seminal artistic partnership.
(Saariaho’s) music always changes perfectly in color, as if you are constantly looking into a magic lantern that is slowly rotated. Conductor Elena Schwarz led the fantastic Residentie Orchestra with a masterly hand through the myriad colors and atmospheres. (Trouw, Peter van der Lint, 9.10.2023)
You go to a concert, three-quarters of it popular classics – also great masterpieces – having been told you have to hear a brilliant young cellist, and into the bargain you also discover a remarkable conductor and an orchestra on top form shedding transcendental light on the familiar. So everybody’s happy.
Thursday night’s Simple Gifts must go down as one of the most memorable of Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s concerts. Hoitenga and conductor Elena Schwarz revealed an extraordinary simpatica partnership here while, elsewhere, the young maestra effortlessly asserted her individuality and authority.
Elena Schwarz manages the feat of giving us the impression of reading Janacek’s score like an open book, bringing to light its constant breaks in tone without ever losing a sense of unity, deploying a limpid polyphony while bringing out the most unique combinations of timbre (Christian Merlin, Le Figaro)
Dvořák’s Symphony no. 7 in D minor is underpinned by the dialectical urge to imbue the work with the Czech spirit of freedom and the composer’s hope that “this Czech music will move the world”. The NSO and Schwarz gave us a resounding rendition.
Das Konzerthaus schenkt seinem Publikum ein Riesenpaket mit Ligeti-Konzerten. Start mit dem bestens disponierten Klangforum Wien unter der hervorragenden Elena Schwarz.
Although this was her debut with the CBSO, Schwarz clearly found no mean rapport with the musicians, as was evident in Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony.
This Beethoven symphony has always been the one that appeals for sheer exhilaration, and with this performance Elena Schwarz has established her credentials, not just for stimulating the intellect, but as a bringer of joy.