“(The orchestra) it can still boast high musical standards which it certainly does under guest conductor Emmanuel Joël-Hornak, whose impeccable pacing, with beautifully blended orchestral voices and a sensitive ear for their stage counterparts, stands in the finest Kapellmeister tradition”
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Thurible.net
“Down in the pit, the orchestra seemed to be enjoying Emmanuel Joel-Hornak’s conducting. There was certainly none of the petulance and tuning problems that were on show just a couple of week’s ago at Prokofiev’s Betrothal in a Monastery. Somehow Joel-Hornak managed to produce one sublime moment after another”
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The Stage, Thom Dibdin
“The resonances of Humperdinck’s music are lush as they rise evocatively from under the baton of Emmanuel Joel-Hornak”
