CONCERT CLASSIC
EN: “For his debut en loco, Fabien Gabel relentlessly dissects the score to find the accents and sounds best suited to this reading with a scalpel that banishes all clichés.”
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FORUM OPERA
EN: “Fabien Gabel conducts the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris with firmness and precision.”
LYRIK MAGAZINE
EN: “Fabien Gabel conducts with contrasting tempos, drawing real dramatic tension from these contrasts."
BACHTRACK
EN: “… it is not without a certain irony and a keen sense of entertainment that the maestro advances in the score, plays with the rhythms, juggles with the serious and the frivolous; in doing so, the musicians immerse the spectator in a reality that reveals its share of imagination and Hispanic phantasmagoria."
CULTUR’EASY
EN: "Before the curtain rises, the musical prelude is marvellous, lively... directed with talent by Fabien Gabel."
TOUT LA CULTURE
EN: "In the pit, Fabien Gabel, who is making his debut at the Paris Opera, knows how to bring out contrasts, textures and tempos, and maintains a good balance between the orchestra and the singers."
PREMIÈRE LOGE
EN: "Great success, finally, for the choirs and for the conductor Fabien Gabel, who makes his debut here at the Paris Opera and offers a precise, refined direction of the work, devoid of excess."
OLYRIX
EN: "The Orchester de l'Opéra national de Paris offers bright and shimmering colors under the crisp and invigorating baton of conductor Fabien Gabel"
RESMUSICA
FR: Fabien Gabel, le geste preste et précis, agence avec art les couleurs de cette séduisante musique, dans toute la palette qu’elle offre…altière ou dramatique.”
EN: “Fabien Gabel, in quick and precise gestures, artfully arranges the colors of this seductive music, in all the palettes it offers... haughty or dramatic.”
THE SPECTATOR
“Gabel’s approach was unexpected – lyrical, reflective and dappled with moments of delicate, glinting sunlight”
SEEN AND HEARD INTERNATIONAL
"We got a concert with a BBC SO on magnificent form, masterfully guided by the French conductor Fabien Gabel... This was a concert that was rare for its high artistic quality in a Prom season that has sometimes been short on it."
BACHTRACK | ★★★★
“Gabel wears his love for this work both on his sleeve and in his heart, and after a measured start he coaxed a rousing account from the BBC SO. They oozed excitement and, even better, pure conviction.”
LIMELIGHT | ★★★★
"... Gabel and WASO navigated Brahms’ masterly writing with reverence rather than romantic indulgence."
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD | ★★★★½
"Superbly rendered expressions of love and loss were at the heart of this generous and deeply satisfying program."
BACHTRACK
"Gabel and the ONF were perfect collaborators, contributing their own share of “sass with class”... The interpretation had atmospherics in spades; Gabel really played up the spiky brass outbursts, while the flute and trumpet solos were particularly noteworthy, hypnotic and even haunting in places.“
CONCERTONET
EN: “Former assistant to Kurt Masur, long-time director of the Orchester Symphonique de Québec, Fabien Gabel, one of the best French conductors of his generation, has had a fine career and his Parisian concerts are always satisfying, especially when he puts on the bill uncrowded.”
FR: “Ancien assistant de Kurt Masur, longtemps directeur de l’Orchestre symphonique de Québec, Fabien Gabel, une des meilleures baguettes françaises de sa génération, fait une belle carrière et ses concerts parisiens satisfont toujours, surtout quand il met à l’affiche des œuvres peu fréquentées.”
LËTZBEURGER LAND
FR: “C’est que le Français dirige large, avec une gourmandise voluptueuse, propre à exalter le naturel sensuel des œuvres qui lui sont confiées.”
EN: “It is that the Frenchman directs large, with voluptuous gluttony, capable of exalting the sensual naturalness of the works entrusted to him.”
LUXEMBOURG TIMES
“The Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra gave a faultless performance, with conductor Fabien Gabel, leading his musicians with gravitas and aplomb…”
THE STAR TRIBUNE
“Among the three conductors who seem to hold the inside track on succeeding Osmo Vänskä as the Minnesota Orchestra's next music director, fate has made Fabien Gabel the one who's auditioning in the most surreptitious fashion.”
DÍAPASON
FR: “[Gabel] est encore un jeune mahlérien, qui compte approfondir cet univers dans les prochaines années… avec l’énergie, l’autorité et l’ambitus dynamique de cette lecture toute en présence et vitalité, fulgurante par moments.”
EN: “[Gabel] is still a young Mahlerian, who intends to deepen this universe in the coming years… with the energy, the authority and the dynamic ambition of this reading all in presence and vitality, dazzling at times.”