March 1, 2024
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Philadelphia Kimmel Center
“A Beethoven buffet from Nathalie Stutzmann and The Philadelphia Orchestra
As she has done so often throughout her time as Philadelphia’s second-in-command, she offered a shot in the arm to the most recognizable music, balancing an artist’s attention to detail with a showman’s sense of big-picture grandeur. (…)
In Stutzmann’s hands, you never wanted it to end.”
Bachtrack
February 12, 2024
London Symphony Orchestra, London Barbican Center
“Nathalie Stutzmann underlined [Bruckner’s] Ninth’s many points of correlation with the previous eight numbered symphonies, as a fitting albeit incomplete culmination to his life’s work. The performance confirmed her intuitive gifts as a Brucknerian, three days after she and the London Symphony Orchestra had given a no less illuminating and unselfconsciously distinctive account of the Seventh.”
Bachtrack
“The London Symphony Orchestra under Nathalie Stutzmann give an exemplary performance of Bruckner’s last symphony. (…)
On Sunday evening, the LSO under Nathalie Stutzmann – along with London Symphony Chorus and soloists Lucy Crowe, Anna Stéphany, Robin Tritschler and Alexander Tsymbalyuk – not only made the attempt, but planted a flag on the summit. (…) Stutzmann and the LSO demonstrated a consummate understanding of all this in their account, presenting the whirl of the composer’s thematic utterances with clarity, verve, and a relentless attention to the dynamic, speed and timbre that marks each one out.”
musicOMH
January 22, 2024
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Woodruff Arts Center
“When all the elements of [Bruckner’s] Symphony No. 9 are balanced and in place, the experience is nothing less than transcendental. (…) This was Stutzmann at her best, taking apart a familiar piece of music and carefully reassembling the bits into a fresh new whole.”
ArtsATL