Mit sängerischer Brillanz und ausgestellter Interpretationsvielfalt feiert das Ensemble um Valdés-Stauber und Grossmann das Kafka-Jubiläum. Es scheut sich vor Gestaltung nicht, gibt aber zu erkennen: Wir wollen die Parabeln nicht entschlüsseln und die Paradoxien nicht auflösen. Die Fragen sollen brennend bleiben.

In the end, music achieves what words can hardly do. Even if some voices fail, it overcomes the speechlessness. We hear and see, think and understand, remember and act. Hopefully!

Another noteworthy album from a formerly neglected Soviet figure. […] the Jewish Chamber Orchestra under Daniel Grossmann brings the accompanying rhythms and slight rawness of a folk band to perfection.

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A powerful performance by the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich under Daniel Grossmann of Weinberg; a significant addition to the composer's catalogue.

[…] In short, this is a fabulous disc, which immediately joins my shortlist of most urgently recommendable Weinberg recordings.

This openness, which on the one hand remains unmistakable, but at the same time forces the listener to engage in their own debate, is a strength of this evening [... The JCOM uses] Koffler's works as artistic material to convey to today's audience how present the difficult past remains. And that is perhaps more sustainable than moving on to business as usual in false emotion.

The JCOM overwhelms with Sarah Nemtsov’s Celan opera “Herzland”. […]

Conductor Grossmann is a committed animator without any showmanship.

The large hall of the Kammerspiele is full to the last seat
filled […] But the audience is not only present, it is blown away. [...] Anyone who seriously asks what is worth leaving the house for will get an answer: not for perfection, but for enthusiasm. Not for the "safe" option, but for passion.

The recording […] impresses with the sensitive accompaniment of the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich under Daniel Grossmann.

…the good mood of the enthusiastic audience in the sold-out house reached an almost worrying level at the end.

The JCOM under Daniel Grossmann plays an expressive concert in the workshop of the Kammerspiele.

Under the direction of Daniel Grossmann, the JCOM highlights the diversity of the musical language in brilliant balance. He delicately directs the small, powerful discharges that break out of the rather delicate tonal foundation. The ensemble's chamber music aspirations in particular benefit the interpretation.

A clarinet calms an angry cello, then the two find themselves in dialogue. Music as a question-and-answer game. Whispering carpets of sound as if from outer space - it is all indescribably beautiful. And is presented intensely by an alert orchestra and brilliant soloists.

A sensitively working ensemble from the [JCOM] worked congenially with the conductor Daniel Grossmann and the voices of Götz Otto and Bibiana Beglau, who explored the limits of language with virtuosity and sensuality.

What Daniel Grossmann and the [JCOM] brought to life in an almost magical and contemplative imagination was wonderful. […] A memorable evening [...]

The Prinzregententheater was sold out - at the end there was a hell of a lot of clapping, singing and applause. [...] Especially in the second part of the evening there was a real fireworks display [...] and Daniel Grossmann also shone as a talented joke teller.

The chamber orchestra under the direction of Daniel Grossmann played with great care, very concisely, transparently and virtuosically.