| "Tjeknavorian
conducts like a young Stokowski, with lithe, driving
rhythms, a fierce spontaneity and ... gorgeous orchestral
colors" - Gramophone |
| "A
master of his art and craft" - Records &
Recording |
| "
... a sophisticated musician ..." - Toronto
Star |
| "
Tjeknavorian and his [ Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra
] can compete on equal terms with any on the international
circuit today" - BBC World Service |
| Tjeknavorian is more than a showman,
as the thrilling performance of Shostakovich's angry
and tragic "Tenth Symphony" that closed the program
proved.- Boston Globe |
| Tjeknavorian is obviously a first-rate
conductor. - New York Daily News |
| Loris Tjeknavorian is a musician
with vivid personality. He encourages the musicians
to reveal all their abilities,and the result is a miracle.
- Das Orchester, Germany |
| "Just as one speaks of a Karayan
spectacular, Guilini communion or a Bernstein happening,
so, I think, we can talk of a Tjeknavorian experience.
His concerts are genuine events.
- Record and
Recording, London |
Stravinsky-("The Rite of Spring")
" Of all the performances known to me, this new one
Tjeknavorian and the LSO(London Symphony)sees most seriously
to be striving to clear away the vulgar associations
of rhythmic patterns". - Gramophone,
London
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| "I was thrilled to listen to it-(Tchaikovsky-Pathetique).
Tjeknavorian makes the LSO sound more like Mravinsky's
Leningrad than anything; the orchestra re-lives its
one -time glory." -
Hi- Fi News
|
| ".....hats off to Loris Tjeknavorian
for laying on one of the year's most enterprising concerts".
- Classical
Music Weekly, London |
| "... The first digital recording
of Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade....Tjeknavorian interpretation
is first -rate: tautly controlled throughout, rhythmically
crisp, electrifying in its dynamism but by no means
lacking in lyrical grace."
- High Fidelity,London |
| "Tjeknavorian's performance (Shostakovich-Symphony
#10) challenges comparison with Karayan (for the intensity)
and Haitink(for its sence of structure and contrlling
purpose)." - Record
and Recording, London |
| "An interpretation of great class...
the nostalgic string theme of the finale has seldom
been sung with such Sibelian passion."
- Helsinki Sonomat
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| Bartok
"Tjeknavorian led
[the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra] with authority
... a remarkable performance [of the Concerto for
Orchestra] in which every nuance of the piece was
ably communicated ... uncommonly alert leadership"
- Tokyo Mainichi Daily News
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| Beethoven
" This Fifth really
does offer something a bit different ... rhythmic
touches and niceties of instrumentation stand out
brilliantly without in any way impeding the dramatic
sweep or natural momentum of the music" - Washington
Post |
| "Tjeknavorian's
choice of Beethoven's Symphony No 7 was a happy one
in its revelation of his feeling for the intensity that
runs through [it] ... an exciting achievement. Both
the conductor and the orchestra will be long remembered
for it" - Johannesburg Rand Daily Mail |
| Borodin
"This set ... a
winner ... offers the best performances of the First
and Third Symphonies ... equal to or better than any
competitive recordings" - Fanfare
|
| "Always
spectacular in execution and recorded sound ... Tjeknavorian's
Borodin showcase definitely has its heart in the right,
leonine place ... he can generate a white heat excitement
rare in the studio" - BBC Music Magazine
Top 1000 CDs Guide |
| "Tjeknavorian
revels in [Borodin's Second] Symphony's frequent dramatic
outburst and opulent tunes (sampling the first movement
should convince anyone)" - Good CD Guide
|
| Khachaturian
"The most extensive
recording of Gayaneh to date ... performed with a
surety of control, rhythmic precision, freedom from
vulgarization, and above all imperious authority,
that the music has surely never enjoyed before...
Tjeknavorian makes a majesterial, even charismatic
impression" - High
Fidelity
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| "Tjeknavorian's
characteristic lush, kaleidoscopic sonorities and unforced,
springing rhythms" -
Fanfare, reviewing Gayaneh |
| "No
one could fault [Tjeknavorian's] colorful, often super
dramatic interpretations of excerpts from Khachaturian's
Spartacus and Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony" -
New York Daily News |
| "Tjeknavorian
and [the Armenian Philharmonic] play this music [Valencian
Widow, etc.] with great spirit and relish... Splendidly
vivid, yet spacious sound" - Penguin Guide*** |
| "Tjeknavorian's
[Masquerade] is a great performance in the all-stops-out
tradition" - Fanfare |
| "The
Armenian partnership of Dora Serviarian-Kuhn and Loris
Tjeknavorian provide a clear first recommendation for
Khachaturian's Piano Concerto, easily the finest account
to have appeared on disc since the pioneering versions
of William Kapell and Moura Lympany ... what makes the
performance individual is the sense of quixotic fantasy"
- Penguin Guide **' |
"Thrillingly
played and sensitively conducted performances [of Symphonies
Nos 1, 3]" - Classic CD
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| "Armenian
conductor Loris Tjeknavorian is a great champion
of Khachaturian's music and, as Artistic Director of
the Philharmonic, he's working with players who have
this fiery nationalist music in their veins - as these
full-blooded performances [of Symphonies Nos. 1, 3]
show" - Eastern Daily Press |
| "The
Loris Tjeknavorian recordings of the three symphonies
of Aram Khachaturian give us the first comprehensive
overview of Khachaturian's symphonic output. The performances
are first class" - Fanfare |
| "Tjeknavorian's
bravura [in Khachaturian] is borne out by brilliant
strings and brass as well as an alarmingly vivid national
percussion section ... brilliantly done" - BBC
Music Magazine Top 1000 CDs Guide |
| "Tjeknavorian
on ASV [in Khachaturian's ballet suites] cannot be surpassed"
- Fanfare |
| Prokofiev
"It's quite some
time since I heard a new recording of this music [Romeo
and Juliet suites] .,, which leapt out at me quite
as much as this" - Classic CD
|
| Rimsky-Korsakov
"A refreshing and
totally gripping new look recording of Scheherazade
... The finale, with its spectacular storm and
shipwreck, has exhilarating animation and bite. Tjeknavorian
shows great imaginative flair ... His own gently luscious
arrangement of Rimsky's most famous melody, better
known as the Chant hindue, caresses the ear
beguilingly" - Penguin Guide ***
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| "Loris
Tjeknavorian approached Rimsky-Korsakov's [Scheherazade]
as though discovering new territory ... we could once
more hear Scheherazade as a moving and poetic
work of real grandeur"- London Guardian
|
| Saint-Saens
"[Tjeknavorian's]
tempo choices [Third Symphony] are convincing without
exception; he is never breathless, but does not allow
the music to dawdle . Handsome" - Washington
Post |
| "Saint-Saens's
rich and flamboyant Symphony No 3 inspired the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Loris
Tjeknavorian, to provide brilliant, warm-hearted playing
with a touch of virtuosity.. Tjeknavorian who has a
liking for fast tempi and blazing dynamics, kept the
rhythm firmly defined, infusing much tension into the
first movement" - London Daily Telegraph
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| Shostakovich
"Loris Tjeknavorian
gave an exciting and compelling [performance of Shostakovich's
Tenth Symphony] and the orchestra responded magnificently
to the occasion a superbly controlled interpretation"
- Johannesburg Citizen |
"The
Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra played its first concert
outside the Soviet Union [December 1990], and it was
an occasion to stir the soul. The technically accomplished
and emotionally intense Tjeknavorian is more than a
showman, as the thrilling performance of Shostakovich's
angry and tragic Tenth Symphony that closed the program
proved" - Boston Globe
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| Sibelius
"Loris Tjeknavorian
is a serious and thoughtful [Sibelius] interpreter...
we [do not] find him trying to score interpretative
points or playing to the gallery" - Gramophone
|
| "Loris
Tjeknavorian is a great Sibelian" - Erik
Tawaststjerna, Helsingin Sanomaf
|
| Stravinsky
"... a very clear
and sensitive performance ... Tjeknavorian
follows Stravinsky's indications quite faithfully,
and gets beautiful playing from the LPO strings''
- Hi-Fi News |
| "Of
all the performance [of the Rite of Spring] known
to me, this new one by Tjeknavorian and the LPO seems
most seriously to be striving to clear away the vulgar
associations of perspiring dancers locked in a turbulent
struggle with the composer's complex rhythmic patterns
... [a] reverent approach" - Gramophone
|
| Tchaikovsky
"...a vigorous and
committed reading [of the Fourth Symphony] .. Tjeknavorian's
is a vivid and energetic portrayal with the uniqueness
of the master's touch" - Records &
Recording |
| "Tjeknavorian
brings a composer's analytical ear to orchestral balances,
and his approach [to the Fifth Symphony] has a freshly
investigative manner" - Hi-Fi News |
"A
sensational version [of the Pathetique] ... demonstrably
one of the best performances of record" - The
Listener (BBC)
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| "I
was thrilled to listen to it ... [Tjeknavorian]
makes the LSO [in the Pathetique] sound more
like Mravinsky's Leningraders than anything; the orchestra
re-lives its one-time glory" - Hi-Fi News |
| "Tjeknavorian's
[recording] ... for the first time lets us hear this
masterpiece [the Pathetique] as it really is
... a performance which is in a class of its own" -
Records & Recording |
| ".
. a probing and beautiful performance ..." - Fanfare,
reviewing the Pathetique |
| "a
performance [of the Pathetique] ... charged with
genuine electricity - London Guardian |
| Terterian
"Symbolic music
of barbarous austerity, spectacularly played and recorded". - Classic
CD |
| "...
if [Tjeknavorian] can offer more Terterian
in comparably fine performances, I for one will rejoice"-
Gramophone |
“Tjeknavorian is more than a showman, as the thrilling
performance of Shostakovich's angry and tragic "Tenth
Symphony" that closed the program proved.”
“Loris Tjeknavorian is a musician with vivid personality.
He encourages the musicians to reveal all their abilities,and
the result is a miracle.“
