Press Clippings USA Tour 2007

"[...] Could the performance possibly have been as good as the thunderous and prolonged applause suggested? Not just as good, but better. This was one of the great Mahler performances given in a hall that has heard plenty of them [...] To watch the young musicians digging into their instruments, hunched forward in their chairs, eagerly responding to Chailly´s athletic cajoling, was to see the music embodied in flesh and bone [...] That Mahler music sounded like the Leipzigers´ native tongue rather than a recently acquired dialect [...]."
(John von Rhein, Chicago Tribune)

"This is an orchestra that speaks with homogeneity of sound and expression shared only by the world´s great ensembles [...] By showing art at its most tender and urgent, Chailly and the orchestra somehow made the music refer to a larger world outside itself - a view of Mahler only the most highly developed interpretations can conjure."
(Peter Dobrin, Philadelphia Inquirer)

"It was all, in a word, spectacular."
(Mark J. Estren, Washington Post)

"[...] It was a triumph. Resounding cheers, standing ovations - not a foregone conclusion in culturally demanding New York... [...]"
(Peter Korfmacher, Leipziger Volkszeitung)

"German Orchestra thrills a rapt crowd [...] It was thrilling from the opening trumpet call to the final jubilant twist [...] The strings were lush, the brass celebratory, and the winds sparkled. The audience rapt throughout, broke into great hoots of delight at the end."
(Geraldine Freedman, The Daily Gazette Schenectady).

"Indeed, it´s hard to imagine Strauss sounding better in Symphony Hall [...] Chailly and the Gewandhaus is an inspired partnership; do not miss them when they return."
(David Weininger, Boston Globe)

"Chailly and his exceptionally well-drilled ensemble kept on top of it all the way, and raised the rafters of the Kimmel [Center] in a way that has not been seen in a long time [...]"
(Robert Zaller, BroadStreetReview.com)

"After Tuesday night´s concert ended with an arresting, organic and richly colored account of Mahler´s daunting Fifth Symphony, the audience responded with the most ecstatic ovation I have witnessed this season at Carnegie Hall."
(Anthony Tommasini, New York Times)

"Chailly is a master of color and pacing, a spellbinding storyteller. In the sharpness of their musical characterizations, the Leipzigers outclassed the Vienna Philharmonic."
(Alex Ross, The New Yorker)