CristianMăcelaru

Press

• Măcelaru conducts Brahms with Simon Trpceski and WDR Sinfonieorchester

  Linn Records

  Nov 2023

  • "Here under Măcelaru we’re offered a perfectly judged opening, powerful in tone, with brass backed by timps, railing strings, the sombre-sounding second subject illuminated from the inside."

    • Gramophone
    • 01 December 2023

• Măcelaru conducts Berg's Violin Concert with Orchestre National de France

  Paris

  Nov 2023

  • The truth is that Măcelaru knew how to conduct the French National Orchestra with the chamber music that Berg's score requires. And also pamper, envelop without overwhelming, the soloist.

    • Mundo Clasico
    • 20 November 2023

• Cristian Măcelaru performs with Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

  Auditorium Rainier III de Monte Carlo

  Jan 2022

  • Sa venue en Principauté n’est pas passée inaperçue. Il a transcendé l’orchestre. His arrival in the Principality did not go unnoticed. He transcended the orchestra. En effet, l’interprétation que nous a donnée de cette symphonie Cristian Măcelaru nous a procuré un total bonheur. Il nous a entraînés avec jubilation dans les tours et détours de cette symphonie pleine de surprises, aux élans sans cesse renouvelés – cette œuvre qui a des allures de conte et donne l’impression de nous raconter une succession de belles histoires. Cristian Măcelaru a ménagé maints suspens, a coloré l’œuvre de mille nuances, a suscité des pianissimos infimes et des fortissimos tonitruants dans lesquels l’orchestre avait une parfaite cohésion. Cristian Măcelaru's interpretation of this symphony gave us total happiness. He took us with glee through the twists and turns of this symphony full of surprises, with its constantly renewed impulses - this work that has the appearance of a tale and gives the impression of telling us a succession of beautiful stories. Cristian Măcelaru created many suspenseful moments, coloured the work with a thousand shades of colour, and produced minute pianissimos and thunderous fortissimos in which the orchestra was perfectly cohesive.

    • Concerto Net
    • 15 January 2022

  • La direction tendue et énergique de Cristian Măcelaru, frénétique par moments, est excellente. Cristian Măcelaru's taut and energetic conducting, frenetic at times, is excellent. Cristian Măcelaru fait danser l'orchestre et tous les instruments sont mis en valeur. Cristian Măcelaru makes the orchestra dance, and all the instruments are highlighted.

    • Crescendo
    • 18 January 2022

• Saint-Saëns: Complete Symphonies with Orchestre National de France (CD release)

  Nov 2021

  • ...soulignons l’extraordinaire subtilité de la direction de Măcelaru, son sens des nuances, la souplesse des articulations, la justesse des tempos. Sous cette baguette frémissante, le National semble avoir retrouvé un nouveau souffle et une nouvelle précision. ...let us emphasize the extraordinary subtlety of Măcelaru's direction, his sense of nuances, the flexibility of the articulations, the accuracy of the tempos. Under this quivering baton, the National seems to have found a new breath and a new precision.

    • Real Audio Box
    • 26 November 2021