“Diego Ceretta seems to us not only to be growing more mature by the day, but to have already attained an enviable maturity that places him among the finest conductors around.”
“Diego Ceretta approaches this much-loved work with vigour and resolve, without indulging in excessive Romanticism (note the instrumental blends!), maintaining a steady course and fully convincing us through his fidelity to the score, bringing out its sharply defined colours and virile tension.”
“[…] Ceretta, who takes great care over the orchestral sound and the relationships between the instrumental sections of an orchestra on splendid form.”
“…Ceretta’s growth as a conductor, which has never seemed so evident to us as in this season-opening concert…”
“…a Tchaikovsky ‘Pathétique’ that won us over.”
“Here, as in Brahms, Ceretta brought out the polyphonic interplay between strings and winds, the layers that give these scores such richness, with the orchestra following him with absolute fidelity and shared commitment to the ardour of the phrasing.”
“[…] the orchestra followed him with absolute fidelity and shared commitment to the ardour of the phrasing.”
“[…] the intensity with which Ceretta and his orchestra conveyed the symphony’s tragic culmination and its fading away in the finale, both realised with true excellence.”
“An excellent, warm and prolonged success in a packed Teatro Verdi.”
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“Ceretta brought a controlled, sharply defined power.”
“In the final Adagio lamentoso, Ceretta held the orchestra in check, giving weight to the severity of the brass chorale before leaving the cellos and double basses to gradually extinguish the sound.”