Photo: Hilary Scott “The baton for the TMCO performance was wielded by guest conductor Dima Slobodeniouk, who had led the Boston Symphony the day before in a program of Liszt and Sibelius. His Tchaikovsky was the kind of brilliant...
Photo: Hilary Scott “Slobodeniouk guided the BSO in a performance at once dignified and tender, allowing shimmering textures and subtle colors to emerge without exaggeration… Remarkably for such a brief work, Slobodeniouk found a through-line, binding the contrasting episodes...
Photo: Winslow Townson “As in the Elgar, conductor and orchestra inverted an inherited truth, teasing out a touchingly human dimension from one of the 20th century’s most impenetrably abstract artists…. For their part, the orchestra’s contributions were tonally full-bodied, texturally clear, and...
Photo: Hilary Scott photo “The Mozart Requiem, K. 626 (in the Süssmayr completion) was one of the unexpected treats of this (or any) year, partly due to the thrilling conducting of Dima Slobodeniouk, to the massive choruses, and to...
Photo: Todd Rosenberg “A tall, professorial presence, the Russian-born Finnish conductor led performances Thursday night that combined lucidity and scrupulous balancing with an eruptive brilliance and intensity. Each of the evening’s three works received clear, acutely focused performances that...
“Under Dima Slobodeniouk’s very attentive direction, orchestra and soloist flew along, keeping up an enviable, but not overdone speed… Slobodeniouk and the orchestra interpreted Debussy’s intent and gave us a stunning representation of our natural environment.” Tamsin Evans, Eyes...
“I have not been so impressed with a conductor, whom I did not know before – I missed his first concert with the LPO – for a very long time… His reading of the short tone poem The...
Photo: Robert Torres “Slobodeniouk and the orchestra vividly evoked the vortex of emotions in Ingrid’s Lament; anguish and anger alternated with resignation in the introduction followed by a moaning string theme that gradually rose to a deeply felt climax...
“Slobodeniouk is renowned for his interpretive depth, and that is certainly true here as he details Stravinsky’s neoclassic/modernist style.” Lewis J. Whittington, Concerto Net
Photo: © LSO | Mark Allan “The dark plangency of tonal colours which Slobodeniouk found not only here but elsewhere was quite remarkable.” Alexander Hall, Bachtrack “Perhaps we will be soon calling him simply Dima (as we do with Mirga and...