BURGUNDYTODAY.COM, 25/7/2009 --- We are going to hear more of Rhorer for sure, as his experience develops and his expertise blossoms.
WIENER ZEITUNG, 2/7/2009 --- Young conductor Jérémie Rohrer proves his talent and gives a sparkling interpretation of the piece.
CD Mozart Symphonies Nos. 25, 26 & 29 (Salzburg 1773), Virgin Classics
NDRKULTUR.de, 27/2/2009 --- There are innumerable records of Mozart symphonies, but this CD is an absolute ear-catcher. Theses interpretations are boisterous and self-confident, grabbing and amazing the audience. Rhorer meets the style of the symphonies no. 25, 26 and 29 with unrestricted naturalness. Mozart composed all three works when he was 17. The so-called "little" Symphony KV 183 in G Minor is his first symphony in a minor key. That must have been radical for Mozart in those days and Rhorer seizes on this radicality. He works with drastically dynamic extremes and contrasts light and shade very sharply, making the music seem tremendously vivid.
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DIE ZEIT, 12/2/2009 --- At the end of the winter, the doors sometimes open and the wind blows in as if it wanted to do the spring cleaning: young, alive and unabashed. This is Mozart, as Jérémie Rhorer in his mid-30ies likes to imagine him, literally devoting himself to his symphonies No. 25, 26 and 29 with heart and soul. (...)
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CLASSIQUENEWS.COM, 1/2/2009 --- The young Maestro Jérémie Rhorer (born in Paris 1973), master of the tiniest palpitation, chasing an amazingly dynamic range, takes the next logical step forward on his way to excellence, which has become apparent since his great opera successes.
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OPERNGLAS, January 2009 --- The orchestra makes the most of all the moods in these scores, bringing power and succulence, but also an exceptional sense for nuance.
LIBÉRATION, January 2009 --- It is ages since we heard Mozart's harmony exalted to such mouthwatering effect.
DIAPASON --- Gathered around Jérémie Rhorer, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie offers a sumptuous Mozartian feast. Impeccably executed, with incisive energy in the chords, polyphonic clarity, beauty of tone: everything is delectable ... Long live this circle of harmony!
TÉLÉRAMA --- For Jérémie Rhorer and his partners, it is a case of fidelity rewarded. Fidelity to their idea of musical purity, of artistic distinction - a Mozartian ideal, in fact.
ALTAMUSICA --- Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, with each musician playing as if his or her life depended on it.
Auber's "Fra Diavolo", Opéra Comique Paris
MUSICALCRITICISM.COM, 29/1/2009 --- Jérémie Rhorer conducted his own period orchestra, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, and confirmed the impression he has been making of a rising star in the French operatic firmament.
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Le Cercle de l'Harmonie delights with Gluck's "Orphée et Eurydice" at the Bremer Glocke
BREMER TAGESZEITUNG, 6/9/2008 --- Le Cercle de l'Harmonie is directed by Jérémie Rhorer, a fiery, insisting and above all a maestro with noticeable, never waning delight, who was taught by Marc Minkowski. Thanks to him, the citizens of Bremen could enjoy many great moments during the music festival. Rhorer achieves a baroque orchestral sound with fervent musicians which is rarely heard so sophisticatedly with every timbre also in its vertical reading achieving a richness in sense and diction. This meticulously articulated, passionately vibrant sound, from the boisterously painful beginning through to the final chords, developed to a dense psychological drama with convincing truth.
Orphée et Eurydice, Beaune, 26.7.2008
RESMUSICA, 31/7/2008 --- What an orchestra! Borne by Jérémie Rhorer's drive and energy, it brings the score to life with many explosions and spots of colours that are relieved with just as sudden and wonderful phases of calm. The noticeable smiles exchanged by the musicians pleads for a conspiration among the stands. A perfect dose of excercising jubilation. The musical miracle continues between the Dance of the Furies and that of the Ghosts.
LES ÉCHOS, 29/7/2008 --- Behind the conductor's stand of the Cercle de l'Harmonie: Jérémie Rhorer. Straight away, he finds the right tone with which to approach this fragile score: Without falling into Rococo affectation or inappropriate Romantic dynamics, he delivers a noble and compelling Gluck, well-balanced and contrasting, depicting a vivid and colourful picture of the composer, regarded by some as rigid.
Critics of Arie di Bravura (CD released by Virgin Classics), February 2008
LIBERATION, 22/1/2008 --- That is the most felicitous classical CD of the last months. (...) It has been a long time since one could witness such accomplished music theatre with a conductor performing so closely with his singers (...). Such an enthusiastically performed, with a secure sense of taste Mozart harmony has not been heard for a long time, especially on period instruments. It is the encounter with this lively, sensitive, colourful Mozart, determined by Rhorer's intelligence and elegance, and the voice of Diana Damrau (...), that makes this CD so valuable, the fans of Bartoli and Jaroussky will fall over themselves to get it. (...) It can only be advised [to sceptics] to listen to this album of pure beauty.
WWW.OMM.DE, 15/3/2008 - concert at Tonhalle Düsseldorf --- Jérémie Rhorer was responsible for the strong musical overall impression and encouraged his (...) orchestra "Le Cercle de l'Harmonie" performing on period instruments to maximum capacity. The very young ensemble (...) is overflowing with vitality and joy of playing and (...) is the ideal partner for Diana Damrau due to its economical sound and its energetic musical rendition. The great exaltation of the audience (...) was really understandable.
Rameau, Boieldieu, Debussy: with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, 9 March 2008 at the Perelman Theatre, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, USA
THE BROAD STREET REVIEW, 15/3/2008 --- This [performance] was led by someone who obviously feels that sparkle, grace, and élan are serious virtues. The marches were so light and graceful they sounded like minuets. The minuets themselves bounced with gaiety. (...) Add Jérémie Rhorer to the catalog of first-class American and European young conductors (...). The future of the music world is in good hands.
Marriage of Figaro, in Beaune and Paris, 2007
LE FIGARO, September 2007 --- Before the music had died away, the hall had already exploded in frenetic applause. It was electrified by the feverish Tempi and the fluid naturalness that Rhorer - a born theatre man! - engraved into the ‘great day' of Mozart and Da Ponte. The whole thing had a sparkling and overflowing effect, while never uneasy. The Tempi were brisk but never rushed. One had the feeling of being in a theatre even without a set and costumes.
DIAPASON, September 2007 --- First and foremost, we have here a genuine conductor. With the formidable success of his Idomeneo last year in Beaune up his sleeve as well as Nozze di Figaro in Lyon, which he shared with William Christie, Jérémie performs like a valiant knight. His flame is great but never outshines his workmanship. (With soloists, and all of this live on radio: what a master!). He is as feverish and joyful as the score, loquacious and focussed, and at the same time perfectly structured. Something about him reminds one of (...) Hans Rosbaud.
CONCERTO CLASSIC, Juli 2007 --- 180 years after the world premiere of Mozart's Nozze di Figaro, the marriage of text and music reached a climax under the baton of Jérémie Rhorer. With his 34 years he reminds one of a young Karajan recording Mozart's Figaro in 1948. The same passion, the same enthusiasm and the same obsession with Mozart's genius: what a master of the pit! (...) He lived the drama in order to re-create it.
LE FIGARO, July 2007 --- What a conductor! What a Figaro! These were moments of pure happiness... His arm and his intellect draw an arc through this irresistibly "great" day. With his orchestra, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie, the electrifyingly passionate Jérémie Rhorer is more than just a mere hope.
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Photo: Alix Laveau
Photo: Alix Laveau
