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Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, conductor

Reviews

Hallé Orchestra (Shostakovich Symphony No.5)
Luminous in texture with well-drawn lines and precisely articulated rhythms, it was a thoroughly idiomatic interpretation distinguished above all by its highly effective observance of the tempo markings.
The Times

Gürzenich-Orchester, Köln (Bruckner Symphony No.4)
Skrowaczewski is one of the few Maestri who are still able to create the big romantic orchestral sound without neglecting the structures, without losing the magic of light and colour.
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

Minnesota Orchestra (Beethoven Symphony No.3, Eroica)
The work is a rousing celebration of the heroic spirit, and Skrowaczewski exploits all its inherent tension and drama. From the overwhelming grief of the funeral march in the second movement to the thundering finale, his conducting allows the work to attain its full epic stature.
Minneapolis Tribune

Hallé Orchestra (Mozart Symphony No.41)
From a finely poised and carefully balanced first movement, through a gorgeously lilting minuet to a finale energetically worked at, in all its contrapuntal glory, he was the master stylist.
Manchester Evening News

Boston Symphony Orchestra (Shostakovich Symphony No.1)
Skrowaczewski led a performance remarkable for formal clarity, polish of detail and focused energies.
...the performances were serious, lucid, exacting and exciting.
The Boston Globe

Minnesota Orchestra (Bruckner Symphony No.9 / Reference Recordings)
This is a clear-eyed view of the work, unencumbered by gratuitous layers of monumentalism or anything else that might hinder its steady flow, its irresistible inner momentum. This version…clearly belongs among the elite handful at the top of the any list.
WETA-FM, Washington DC

Vienna Radio Symphony (Bruckner "Nullte" Symphony)
Skrowaczewski has Bruckner in his blood and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in the palm of his hand.
Wiener Zeitung

BBC Symphony Orchestra (Szymanowski Violin Concerto / Penderecki Sinfonietta for Strings)
Skrowaczewski pointed up the blend of vitality and hedonistic languor in the orchestral part, just as he had found both the grit and the passion in Penderecki’s Sinfonietta for Strings.
Daily Telegraph