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What the press has to say:
Ole Kristian Ruud/Leif Ove Andsnes/Stavanger 2007 "Impressive
Youth Symphony: ...although the musicians are all in their early twenties or
younger, they played with impressive security and conviction, impressive
precision, big dynamic contrasts and with beautiful solos from the different
instruments. And with an infective enthusiasm!...Ole Kristian Ruud had full
control and enticed delicious details at the same time as he showed a
secure sense of form." [Rasmus Reed, Stavanger Aftenblad, August 2007]
Ole Kristian Ruud/Oslo 2007 "Struck a Note: ...expectations were met long before Andsnes came to the stage after the interval.
Because the Norwegian National Youth Orchestra played their socks off all on their own in the first half. Or more precisely they played under the leadership of Ole
Kristian Ruud who must have been bursting with pride over his young musicians...So there we sat in enthusiastic disbelief over the young flock of musicians on the stage
and thought: how is it possible? Until the music took us and we forgot everything else." [Ståle Wikshåland, Dagbladet, August 2007]
The Brazz Brothers/Elverum 2007 "Music Celebration of the Best Sort: The Brazz Brothers and the Norwegian National Youth Orchestra
were well matched when they together performed a large handful of delightful African moods. We had to keep pinching our arms during the concert to realize that we were
on the town square in Elverum and not at a concert in a large African town… (The arrangements) were varied and the young musicians showed us that they can do more than
play Brahms and Tchaikovsky. And thank goodness for that." [Bodvar Lotsberg, Østlendingen, August 2007]
Eivind Aadland/Elverum 2007 "Impressive performers: That such young musicians can play at such a high level impressive pure and simple.
Not only are they impressive performers. They have understood the music." [Andreas Hveding, Hamar Arbeiderblad, August 2007]
Eivind Aadland/Truls Mørk/Elverum 2007 "Brilliant Mørk: Truls Mørk and his cello almost melted together into one instrument, and the
virtuoso’s extremely musical body language underlined the atmosphere and let it ring out into the hall. The result was a standing ovation from 900 joyous listeners…"
[Andreas Hveding, Hamar Arbeiderblad, August 2007]
Josep Cabellé-Domenech/Solveig Kringelborn/Berlin 2006 "A high point of the Young Euro Classic Festival:
The Norwegian National Youth Orchestra...The concert on Tuesday evening was one
of the best of the past 7 years." [Jan Brachmann, Berliner Zeitung, august 2006]
Rolf Gupta/Jean-Guihen Queyras/Elverum 2006 "This was one of the greatest opening concerts in the history of the festival...
To follow the orchestras travels through Mahler's fifth symphony was a fantastic trip…
We felt that the young musicians surpassed themselves throughout the exciting and demanding symphony…
That a purely young ensemble is able to present such a tremendous performance is sensational. It is an achievement both in national and international context...
Yesterday evening we learned to love Haydn’s C-major Concerto, thanks to Jean-Guihen Queyras and his playing....We loved his energetic style from the first bar.
This was a top class soloist who was a great intermediary. His playing was so relaxed...In the calm music he found excitement and power, and he was given room to
strike in the difficult technical challenges which he handled wonderfully."
[Bodvar Lotsberg, Østlendingen, august 2006]
Nick Davies/Silje Nergaard/Elverum 2006 "Silje Nergaards silky voice joined Ungdomssymfonikerne in the Elverum Hall yesterday
and the result was beautiful." [Marit Elise Lyngstad, Hamar Arbeiderblad, august 2006]
Josep Caballé Domenech/Solveig Kringelborn/Elverum 2006
"We fell in love with the wonderful voice of Solveig Kringelborn. There was
something extra special about the beautiful presentation. The singer won a
superior victory in the hall... This was the grand finale that we’ve been looking forward to...
Josep Cabellé-Domenech presented a tremendous Sibelius 5th Symphony. You should have been there Sibelius! The symphony was continuous pleasure...
What harmony between the conductor and the young musicians on stage. It was a great journey with lots of passion..." [Bodvar Lotsberg, Østlendingen, august 2006]
Henning Kraggerud/Terje Mikkelsen/Oslo 2004 "Something happens to Ungdomssymfonikerne when
they are allowed to play where the acoustics are good. We enjoyed this yesterday
evening at Oslo Chamber Music Festival, when the orchestra played in Oslo
Concert Hall. And play they did indeed, lead by Terje Mikkelsen! I am not only thinking
of the impressive interpretation of "Heldenleben" that really lifted
Strauss. The really outstanding performance was Mozart Violin concerto in A
major, with Henning Kraggerud as soloist. ... It was obvious how he
was an inspirational force to the young orchestra musicians, who played like an
experienced group. The result belongs in the category of rare moments of
blissful meetings on stage."
[Ståle Wikshåland, Dagbladet, August 2004]
Kammerkonserter Galleri Oro/Elverum 2004 "In their chamber music concerts these young
talents prove that they also master other parts of the music than the large
orchestra works. ... Both the musicians themselves and their choice of programme
showed some of the geographic width represented in the orchestra in
Elverumshallen. In an otherwise heated festival town the lunch concert in
Gallery Oro was like a cooling oasis. "
[Rolf Småriseth, Hamar Arbeiderblad, August 2004]
Barbara Hendricks/Ole Kristian Ruud/Elverum 2004 "Thousands of people got a magic experience by the
pond Sagtjernet Tuesday night. An audience counting a total of 4000 people saw
Ungdomssymfonikerne and the opera star on the fleeting stage this summer night.
Tchaikovsky's Swan Sea sounded over the still water surface as the audience got
their first meeting with Barbara Hendricks. In a small rowboat the world famous
opera celebrity, wearing a bright red dress, was brought to the shore and the
100 square meter stage where 110 young musicians were playing. ...
Ungdomssymfonikerne, who has played a central part of the music festival for 30
years, managed the great challenge to keep in tune throughout this late night
outdoor event."
[Anne Næsheim, Norwegian Broadcasting, August 2004]
Barbara Hendricks/Ole Kristian Ruud/Elverum 2004 "This year's Popular Concert is one of the best
through 30 years. Never before has the audience experienced such a summer night
atmosphere. And never have so many people been gathered for a common musical
experience. ... The orchestra mastered most genres. This evening the audience
could hear vivacious film music, both in Korngold's Captain Blood and in the
main theme from Star Wars. "Ut mot havet" by Norwegian composer Bræin
sounded beautiful sitting at the edge of the water." [May Sissel
Andersen, Hamar Arbeiderblad, August 2004]
Barbara Hendricks/Ole Kristian Ruud/Elverum 2004 "How wonderfully you played - you musicians in Ungdomssymfonikerne.
We love you even more after all those beautiful notes you gave us, alone and in
the great collaboration with the visiting celebrity soprano and very proficient
conductor Ole Kristian Ruud." [Bodvar Lotsberg, Østlendingen, august 2004]
Leif Ove Andsnes/Andrey Boreyko/Elverum 2004 "First we were invited to enjoy master pianist Leif
Ove Andsnes' very first performance of Rachmnainov's second piano concerto, a
work the star soloist will perform all over the world the coming season. ... He
communicated with the different instrument groups in the orchestra. Completely
on the same wavelength. ... It was half an hour of intense music elation!" [Bodvar Lotsberg, Østlendingen,
August 2004]
Leif Ove Andsnes/Prinsesse Märha Louise/Elverum
2004 "In the concert intermission the Princess met with
Andsnes and
Ungdomssymfonikerne, who has been connected with the festival since its start. - Ungdomssymfonikerne
is a unique institution, and something we do not appreciate enough in Norway,
said Princess Märtha Louise"
[Bjørn Ekeberg, VG, August 2004]
Andrey Boreyko/Elverum 2004 "They readjusted to Berlioz' "Symphonie
Fantastique" after the intermission. ... We have seldom experienced such a
great display of Berlioz' calculated theatricality."
[Ståle Wikshåland, Dagbladet, August 2004]
Arve Tellefsen/Elverum 2003 "- Ungdomssymfonikerne is the best that has happened
in Norwegian music life the last 30 years. It has been a unique institution for
recruiting professional musicians. Here each individual musician has been able
to develop pride in orchestra playing and good attitudes for the future." [Soloist
Arve Tellefsen to Dagbladet in 2003]
Arve Tellefsen/Andrey Boreyko/Elverum 2003 "Conductor Boreyko vibrated on his podium like a 100-meter
runner in his start position, Ungdomssymfonikerne threw themselves like fearless
divers from ten meters hight, a fleet of violin bows ploughed through Sinbad sea
farer's ocean, and soloist Arve Tellefsen had lost his jacket and tie too."
[Knut Fjeld, Østledningen, July 2003]
Ole Kristian Ruud/Stavanger 2002 "Ungdomssymfonikerne demonstrated their rhythmic
competence in a sparkling performance of Rolf Wallins Stravinskij apotheoses "ID"
from 1982, steaming with musical enjoyment. So also for the last work,
Tchaikovsky's 4th symphony, filled with pathos and fat sound, where neither
conductor nor orchestra held back, luckily. So tomorrow's
musicians in our symphony orchestras show an appetite for both the new and the
old music. That is promising."
[Ståle Wikshåland, Dabladet, August 2002]
Leif Ove Andsnes/Ole Kristian Ruud/Oslo 2002 "Also this years Ungdomssymfonikere bear message
of times of prosperity still for the classical music."
[Arvid O. Vollsnes, Aftenposten, August 2002]
Leif Ove Andsnes/Bergen 2002 "- They give everything! Fantastiquely inspiring. These
are our best young musicians"
[Leif Ove Andsnes to Bergens Tidende August 2002]
Alban Gerhardt/George Pehlivanian/Elverum 2002 "The German world star Alban Gerhardt could send
careful and extremely elegant cello notes from his instrument and be sure that
Ungdomssymfonikerne carried them further on a tight and almost imperceptible
carpet of euphony, incredibly well adapted to the soloist's playing."
[May Sissel Andersen, Hamar Arbeiderblad, August 2002]
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