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Thierry Fischer, conductor

Reviews

"This was one of the orchestra’s triumphs…the Ulster Orchestra’s ecstatic performance under the spirited baton of Thierry Fischer..
Ulster Orchestra, Messiaen: Turangalila (The News letter)

The gradations and differentiations became inspiring through the superb conducting of Thierry Fischer. His very precise gestures found their exact correlation in the power or conversely the reticence of the musicians’ articulation…
Ensemble Modern, Simon Holt (Frankfurter Rundschau)

The interpretation by the Ensemble Modern under Thierry Fischer worked because it represented the coarse sound as the flipside of an extraordinary, excessive passion… The Ensemble exuded vitality, making it impossible for the listener to remain unmoved.
Ensemble Modern, Simon Holt (Berliner Zeitung)

Thierry Fischer conducted this accurate symphonic portrait by his fellow countryman Frank Martin with special attention. If he keeps conducting as conscientiously as in this work, we hope that he – like Frank Martin – could make the Netherlands his second homeland.
Netherlands Radio Symphony, Frank Martin: Les 4 Elements

A conductor with a pronounced and lively vision, with authority, and, most importantly, with great charisma…The grand and yet finely detailed style with which Fischer approached Golgotha indicated that he could well develop into a valuable opera conductor…compelling conducting.
Netherlands Radio Symphony, Frank Martin: Golgotha (De Volkskrant)

Fischer delivered brisk and vividly coloured sounds from the orchestra and brought a spring into the step of everything he touched…. He enjoyed himself highlighting the contrasts of Ravel’s version of Mussorgsky’s Pictures From an Exhibition: a glossily printed, souvenir-quality, colour catalogue it was, and the control of the crescendos was very thrilling….The performance attracted the kind of excited reception which reminded me of Halle nights of old.
Hallé Orchestra, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky (Manchester Evening News)

Schubert’s Great C Major symphony was beautifully shaped by orchestra and conductor. The seamless stream of melody, the beauty of inner lines, the rhythmic energy, the contrasting tone colours – all were there for our digestion and utter enjoyment.
Hallé Orchestra, Schubert (Westmorland Gazette)

Walton’s inspirational and characterful music (of Walton’s Façade) fairly crackled away under the baton of the young Swiss conductor Thierry Fischer…The monumental finale (of the Walton Violin Concerto) ended with orchestra and soloist teaming up in respendent style and the Hallé carried over its happy form into a sunny account of Schubert’s Symphony no. 9.
Hallé Orchestra, Walton, Schubert (Manchester Evening News)

Adams’ magpie-like musicality found an unusually sympathetic interpreter in conductor Thierry Fischer. He managed to make sense of Adams’ compact instrumentation in the opening, and relished the second movement’s relative calm.
Northern Sinfonia, Adams Chamber Symphony, South Bank Centre London (The Guardian)

His treatment of the symphony (Brahms 1) revealed considerable empathy with the music, and gripped right from the taut opening bars. It was expansive enough to allow the big melodies plenty of space to breathe, but was never overly deliberate in the process, maintaining a crisp momentum throughout. .. a fine account.. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin was played with a lightness of touch which brought out the music’s delicate harmonic and textural weave…
BBC Scottish Symphony, Brahms, Ravel (The Herald)