“…it’s all part of what we’ve come to expect from an Orchestra Wellington occasion! In other words there’s nothing routine about what happens, even when there are no such extras or “frills”, but always a real and vibrant sense of a concert’s uniqueness and its attendant music-making joys.”
“Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony is immensely well known to the point where saying something new would seem impossible, yet Marc Taddei, by going back to the composer’s original metronome markings brought this war horse to life….one felt like having heard the symphony for the first time.”
“He brings a performance which feels like you’re the only person in the room. When he’s addressing an audience, it feels like he’s addressing you and only you and that is just amazing. That is special.”
“…each of the pieces got a performance that brought everything to life, the kind of response we’ve come to expect from this particular ensemble in recent times.”
“… everyone played with precision and brilliance, and it was all conducted, without score, by conductor Taddei with an understanding of the idiom that, without any affectation at all, revealed this work as being worthy of being heard much more often.”