Spira mirabilis

“an exhilarating performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony by Spira Mirabilis…Such rapport, flexibility, vivacity and virtuosity! It showed what’s possible in a musical world where idealism and flair have yet to be diluted by compromise and routine.” (The Times, June 2011)

“I have seen the future of orchestral music. And boy, is it good…. Hearing them play Beethoven was like seeing an image through a telescope come magically into focus. Their example should be followed everywhere.”  (The Guardian, June 2011)

“The London debut of Spira mirabilis was uniquely thrilling. Had you closed your eyes, theirs was a period-inflected, super-caffeinated Eroica of the sort Giovanni Antonini might conduct. Eyes open, it was a live-action analysis of Beethoven's score, leadership passing from first violinist Lorenza Borrani to cellist Luise Buchberger, flautist Anne Parisot and viola player Simone Jandl as each idea was introduced and developed, with outstanding warmth and delicacy in the supporting textures. Played with such joy and daring, this was an Eroica to make any purist blink.” (The Independent, November 2010)

"It was thrilling to hear top players from orchestras throughout Europe freed to take responsibility and to create music from the inside. The funeral March movement was as moving, in its austere heart and its moments of ravishing beauty, as I have ever heard it. And the pinpoint precision of the strings in the Scherzo caught the breath. The audience leapt to its feet in a spontaneous ovation." (The Guardian, November 2010)

"Diese Faszination springt dann unmittelbar auf die Hörer über und macht dieses Ensemble exemplarisch zum Vorreiter einer zeitgemässen Vermittlung klassischer Musik an eine neue Generation"

"This facination directly moves the audience and makes Spira the exemplary pioneer of a modern mediation of classical music to a new generation." (Welt am Sonntag, October 2010)

"The whole orchestra turns to a natural, resonant body which breathes, moves and shows much soul and heart. It definitively leaves nobody cold...It lasted just half an hour. But what the small orchestra took out of the score, provided hapiness for the ears for days.” (Hamburger Abendblatt, October 2010)

“Never before has one heard Brahms played with such a crisp freshness" (Weser-Kurier, September 2010)

"If only one could hear the whole symphony over again" (Nordwest-Zeitung, September 2010)