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Arnhem Philharmonic (Het Gelders Orkest)
Gisèle Ben-Dor, conductor, with Pascal Devoyon, piano
Works of Smetena, Tchaikovsky and Sibelius

Arnhemse Courant

Ben-Dor Knows What She Wants and How to Get It
By Tom Ruijfrok

The Uruguayan-Israeli, Gisèle Ben-Dor, is proof of the fact that whatever reason one can think of for the small number of women conductors can be called a fairytale ... Ben-Dor, not impeded by her nearly complete pregnancy, showed in Sibelius' Second Symphony a firm and extremely fixed direction that kept the HGO musicians constantly alert ... Ben-Dor fairly moulded the orchestra to her will ... ample attention for even the slightest detail in the brass section ... she knows exactly what she wants to achieve and she succeeds in doing so ... This was the work of a perfectionist. Ben-Dor is a musician in heart and soul ... She can really measure up to her most famous colleagues.

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• The New York Times — James Oestereich
• Los Angeles Times — Mark Swed
• The Washington Post — Tim Page
• The Philadelphia Inquirer — Daniel Webster
• Boston Globe — Anthony Tommasini
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• Baltimore Sun — Phil Greenfield
• San Francisco Chronicle — Octavio Roca
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• CD Classical Review, Revueltas
• Gramophone, Ginastera
• The Berkshire Eagle, Andrew L. Pincus
• The Westsider, New York City
• The Cincinnati Enquirer
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International Reviews:

• Praise for the European premiere of Beatrix Cenci
• Jerusalem Post — Eli Karev
• Jerusalem Post — Benjamin Bar-Am
• Belfast News — Claran McKeown
• Helsinki Philharmonic
• Helsinki Philharmonic — February, 2000
• The Courier Mail, Brisbane, Australia — Claran McKeown
• Potsdamer Tageszeitung, Germany
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