Press Reviews
"This year’s Young Euro Classic festival was just three days old and we had already witnessed an interesting, intelligent and moving concert in the form of Sunday’s performance in the Konzerthaus by the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra."
Berliner Zeitung, 5.8.2008
"The inspiringly combined program gave the solo wind instruments every opportunity to express themselves while, at the same time, demonstrating the European Union Youth Orchestra’s outstanding ensemble capacities."
Der Tagesspiegel, 12.8.2008
"… this fusion of European and Asian to create what you might call a global classical sound was an outstanding accomplishment …“
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 3.8.2008
"It all sounds so unprepossessing: the festival calls itself simply Young Euro Classic – but don’t be fooled because this meeting of youth orchestras that takes place in Berlin’s high summer season attracts the very best young musicians from distant continents."
Neues Deutschland, 4.8.2008
"Image the ideal Young Euro Classic concert and this was it: first, one of the classic pieces of musical Modernism played with glorious concentration; then a contemporary composition, proceeded by some introductory words from the conductor; and finally, a standard-repertoire hit – the “Pathétique” – the profundity of which is so readily accessible to a young audience. What an evening!"
Der Tagesspiegel, 5.8.2008
"This year’s Young Euro Classic festival was just three days old and we had already witnessed an interesting, intelligent and moving concert in the form of Sunday’s performancein the Konzerthaus by the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra."
Berliner Zeitung, 5.8.2008
"The inspiringly combined program gave the solo wind instruments every opportunity to express themselves while, at the same time, demonstrating the European Union Youth Orchestra’s outstanding ensemble capacities.
Der Tagesspiegel, 12.8.2008
"Revamp the orchestra made up by these young French musicians and call it the Orchestre National de France – then it would at last be possible for a French ensemble to have an impact beyond the country’s own borders."
rbb Kulturradio, 18.8.2008
"One thing Young Euro Classic can already credit itself with: this gathering of youth orchestras has shown that – here in Germany’s classical music capital – the music-loving masses can be mobilised every day of the year.
Der Tagesspiegel, 18.8.2008
"A thunderous finale, the likes of which every festival dreams of. The 2008 Young Euro Classic musical parade drew to a close in admirable style. The guest performance by the Orchestre Français des Jeunes under the phenomenal direction of Dennis Russell Davies outdid all that had previously rung out – however good it might have been."
Berliner Morgenpost, 19.8.2008
"Sold out concerts, standing ovations, bravos! Every evening, for two whole weeks. Little wonder that Berlin’s young.euro.classic festival is often simply known as the 'summer fairytale' ".
Märkische Oder-Zeitung, 19.8.2008
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best of press voices
"The Bayreuth of the next generation."
(Berliner Morgenpost)
"The idea is and remains brilliant."
(Der Tagesspiegel)
"Within five years a small wonder has happened in Berlin."
(Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, 25.08.05)
"The opening of the brilliant Young Euro Classic Festival was a pleasurable and adventurous event."
(Berliner Morgenpost)
"While other festivals in Berlin have to struggle for an audience, the Young Euro Classic is for more than two weeks all but sold out."
(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 23.08.07)
"To the observer it becomes apparent: the orchestra (including musicians from Germany and China) does not only practise together, but it is a unity."
(Sina.com über das Young Euro Classic Festivalorchester China – Deutschland, 24.07.08)
"Angela Merkel describes the performance as a perfect fusion of Chinese and German musicians, who symbolise the harmonic relationship of both countries."
(China Daily about the LANXESS Young Euro Classic CHINA Tour, 27.08.07)
"The concert lives through an obvious, for professional orchestras hardly accessible, head start in vitality."
(Süddeutsche Zeitung, 17.08.05)
"A parallel society to the established concert world."
(Die Welt, 21.08.07)
"Young Euro Classic is a lot all at once - a festival for new music, a social event, a youth project, a intercultural and diplomatic tour de force, a symbol for a successful partnership between public funding and private sponsering."
(Deutschlandfunk – Studiozeit, 13.08.07)
"When the person sitting next to you takes off his jacket, when the audience begins to dance boisterously, in all rows of the Konzerthaus, where Antonin Dvorák's 9th Symphony has just rung out - then you're allowed to give yourself a brief pinch"
(Der Tagesspiegel, 25.08.2009)
"Berlin's annual summer festival of international youth orchestras has conquered its place in my old detached heart of a critic as the absolute favourite festival."
(Musicalamerica.com – the business source for performing art, 12.08.07)