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VREMYA NOVOSTEY, 7/11/2008 - about the performance of Schnittke's Concerto Grosso --- A sound-based performance of wanderings and adventures (...). And the emotions themselves are ingenuous, credulous and candid (...). Fedoseyev conjures the mysterious powerful images of magic theatre (...) The exceptional mastery of the soloists with overtly romantic interpretation, coupled with the magnificent rich and grand flow of the orchestra complete the likeness of Fedoseyev's Schnittke to a picturesque fanciful show. (...) This proves again that the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra is at the same time a brilliant actor and painter. A thing to appreciate.

TRIBUNA MUSICAL. 20/10/2008 --- (...) a marvelous symphonic experience at the Coliseo: the only concert of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra Moscow under Vladimir Fedoseyev. (...) after hearing them I stand not only content but enthusiastic. (...) The players are individually virtuosi and have both that unmistakable Russian expressivity and great discipline; it is uncanny to hear the massed violins to play with exactly the same bowing and attack. In "Scheherezade" (...) the myriad shadows of the score were ideally phrased, with a subtlety and beauty that made for ecstatic hearing. And Tchaikovsky´s Fifth, was simply ideal in tempi, timbres, tensions and releases, becoming a profoundly moving experience, as well as thrillingly virtuosic.

LA NACION, 19/10/2008 --- Both its mission and masterly performance have ensured the orchestra's prominence now and in the whole history of music. (...) The rich sound of the ensemble, its gorgeous composition dynamic and suppleness of the instrument sections responding to Fedoseyev, intertwining themes (...) - all these married into a magnificent evening. (...) The whole orchestra presented a unique dynamic balance and ability to follow unanimously the conductor's minute directions.
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KOMMERSANT, 2/9/2008 - about the Russian premiere of Hector Berlioz‘ L'Enfance du Christ --- The Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Fedoseyev did not cease to surprise, both with absolute unanimity and with keenness, transparency, even with some humility, helping the public to wholly estimate Berlioz's unfamiliar masterpiece.

VREMYA NOVOSTEY, 17/4/2007 --- Vladimir Fedosseyev treats the repertoire of his orchestra with special respect, just like an eager collector would treat the items of his art collection. The masterpieces - results of a difficult search, born through suffering, finally acquired and performed in all their phenomenal complexity - are nurtured, cherished and preserved by Fedosseyev, who from to time to time delicately invites us listeners to share with him that rapture, love and tenderness.

THE HERALD, 23/8/2005 --- There are good Russian bands, there are great Russian bands and then there is the venerated Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, (...) playing like a dream. ...more

DER STANDARD 4/4/2005 --- Vladimir Fedosseyev and his Moscow orchestra have established over the years such a perfect unanimity that they can truly afford to break into untamed ferocity. It was accordantly rewarded by the applauding audience. Other than the St Petersburg Philharmonic, who likes to dress Tchaikovsky in string and brass silkiness, the MSO cultivates a sound ideal that is more on the unadorned, so to say modern side.

DIE PRESSE, 6/12/2003 --- Already on the first evening of his three day stint in Vienna, the Tchaikovsky Orchestra under Vladimir Fedosseyev captured the audience with their sure-footed virtuosity. Stravinsky's early symphonic poem "Le chant du rossignol" took an iridescend shape (...). Fedosseyev incited his musicians to an enormous variety of sound: Opalescent violins, pithy brass. A rarified filmy pianissimo concluded the sound miracle. Then Rimsky-Korsakov's "Sheherazade". A thoughtful, velvety clarinet fabled over precise string rhythms. Fedoseyev coordinated the changes in harmony with minimal gestures, in order to allow the fairylike sound narrative to freely unfold. The breathtakingly virtuosic finale - concise in every little detail - was met with a wave of excitement.

Vladimir Fedosseyev
Photo: Roman Goncharov