DEUTSCHE KAMMERPHILHARMONIE BREMEN / BRAHMS TOUR – DECEMBER 2015:
“A few years ago The Beethoven cycle hit us like a meteorite: so new, fresh, dramatic, so thoroughly consistent and rhetorically convincing that one could hardly have imagined the symphonies performed otherwise. Following Beethoven and Schumann cycles, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and their chief conductor Paavo Järvi now move their focus to the weightiest of Germans … Everything is alive with this ensemble, both fresh and free … Transparency instead of foggy pathos”
Der Standard
“Chief Conductor Järvi allowed the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen to shine in Brahms’ first Symphony after the interval … with great ease and good balance. It is a fine and dignified orchestra with a deep string sound which in the Andante seemed to purr like a contented cat.”
NRC Handelsblad
“The bond between Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen is inseparable … From the outset, communication between musicians and maestro ran like clockwork … allowing you to feel a vitality and enthusiasm that many professional orchestras can only dream of … Seldom do you experience an orchestra where there is so much eye contact and laughter. Such enjoyment was clear from the outset of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen’s performance of Brahms’ Symphony No.3 … the freedom with which this orchestra played music is quite unique.”
Die Welt
“When Järvi appeared as a guest conductor with his Orchestre de Paris at the Philharmonie recently he maintained the efficient upper hand as leader. With the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen however there is no music director, simply fellow musicians, and the energy currents flow and intensify with each moment. Weariness is not something that this cohesive ensemble know about. They are driven only by their desire to raise our perception of Brahms. And this is what the Bremen musicians precisely achieved in this blazing evening.”
Der Tagesspiegel