“This orchestra is deemed to be one of the best in Russia and is distinguished with its wonderful culture of performance: an unusual flexibility, punctuality and expressiveness. The essence and main content of music come to the first plan in all richness of details.
The conductor who has been leading the orchestra already within 35 years conducts it in a sovereign way, sometimes unusually and untraditionally. Here a score and its content become the most important ».      

«Oberoesterreichische Nachrichten», 18.03.2009