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Award for the CD 'Mieczyslaw Weinberg' 11/2023

Editor's Choice November 2023: The best new classical recordings

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

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

On the CD release 'Mieczyslaw Weinberg' 12/2023

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

On the project 'Koffler's Fate' 11/2023

Beauty usually has a double bottom at JCOM, because the programs of artistic director and conductor Daniel Grossmann repeatedly remind us of a rich musical culture that was lost in the Second World War and the mass murder of the Jews of Eastern Europe.

[…] 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, which is not limited to the memory of a forgotten Jewish composer. Grossmann, Leder and dramaturg Martin Valdés-Stauber honor Koffler's works as artistic material to use and convey to today's audience how present the difficult past remains. And that may be more sustainable than simply going back to business as usual with false emotion.

To the concert Paul Celan 03/2023

The JCOM overwhelms with Sarah Nemtsov's Celan opera "Herzland". [...]
Conductor Grossmann is a committed animator without showmanship.

To the concert 'Jewish Jazz' 02/2023

The large hall of the Kammerspiele is filled to the last seat when the [JCOM] performs "Jewish Jazz" and the ensemble member Jelena Kuljić intones Gershwin songs with a velvety voice at the climax of a grandiose concert. […]

But the audience isn't just there, it's blown away. The ensemble interprets the pieces with a lightness that many lack at the moment: turned to the sound, turned to the moment, turned to life.

Anyone who seriously asks what it is worth leaving the house for, got an answer: not for perfection, but for enthusiasm. Not for “playing it safe”, but for passion.

On the CD release Fanny Hensel-Felix Mendelssohn 03/2022

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

For the Jewish New Year's Concert 5782 10/2021

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

To the concert Ullmann-Schulhoff 09/2021

The JCOM under Daniel Grossmann is playing an expressive concert in the Werkraum of the Kammerspiele.

 

For the concert on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Berlin 02/2020

In brilliant balance, the JCOM, conducted by Daniel Grossmann, emphasizes the diversity of the tonal language. This finely leads the small, powerful discharges that break out of the rather delicate tonal foundation. In particular, the chamber music claim of the ensemble benefits the interpretation.

For the Weinberg Festival 05/2019

A clarinet soothes an angry cello, then the two find themselves in dialogue. Music as a question and answer game. Whispering carpets of sound as if from space – all this is unspeakably beautiful. And is presented intensively by an alert orchestra and brilliant soloists.

For the PERFORMANCE of 'Words & Music' 07/2016

A sensitively working ensemble from the [JCOM] acted congenially with the conductor Daniel Grossmann and the voices of Götz Otto and Bibiana Beglau, which explored the limits of language in a virtuoso and sensual way.

For the concert 'Hanukkah' 02/2016

What Daniel Grossmann and the [JCOM] brought to life in an almost magical and contemplative imagination was wonderful. As wonderful as Nida-Rümelin's dictum about the miracle of human freedom. The Burda hall was in enthusiasm mode. […] A memorable evening without conclusive answers. But full of questioning intellectual movement between provability and belief, between science and art, which always felt a part of science and wanted to be treated as such - and was.

For the Jewish New Year's Concert 10/2015

The Prinzregententheater was sold out – in the end all hell broke loose with clapping, singing and applause. […] Especially in the second part of the evening it was a real firework with coloraturas, vocal tightrope acts and sentimental evergreens. It was like Mardi Gras and New Year rolled into one, and Daniel Grossmann also excelled as a gifted joke teller.

For the performance of 'The Emperor of Atlantis' 06/2008

The chamber orchestra, conducted by Daniel Grossmann, played with great care, very concisely, transparently and with virtuosity.