BERLIN PHILHARMONIC – MAY 2015:

“Paavo Järvi allows the musicians a mostly cheerful approach (in Shostakovich’s Symphony No.1) and tightens his interpretation again and again, to suddenly bring the orchestra into a higher voltage. Then, with rumbles and crashes into the rafters of the strings, one has the feeling that Järvi is firmly and quite clearly at the heart of the sound of the Ensemble…”
Berliner Zeitung, May 2015