ORCHESTRE PHILHARMONIQUE ROYAL DE LIÈGE

“Music director of the OPRL since 2011, Austrian conductor Christian Arming has an exceptional gift:  to express the singular emotion of each instant throughout the interpretation ... It was with joy and emotion that the public could experience this intense feeling of an almost unbearable climb, culminating in the grandiose coda.” [Bruckner Symphony No. 8]

CRESCENDO MAGAZINE

“This is not the first time that we have noticed the high level to which Christian Arming has brought the Liège Philharmonic, both in the precision and the general high quality of its playing.”

CLASSICA

ST. LOUIS SYMPHONY

“… Austrian conductor Christian Arming, who has made a fine name for himself around the world, created an outstanding evening at Powell Symphony Hall … The program’s curtain-raiser was ‘Sarka,’ the third segment in Bedrich Smetana’s tone poem Má vlast (My Country). Arming provided a clear account of the tale, effectively bringing out each aspect of Sarka’s plot … Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 1, ‘Spring,’ followed the Smetana … Arming invested it with an engaging energy that carried the promise of spring. Animated and fresh, this performance made a strong case for a symphony that’s not often heard.”

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

VANCOUVER SYMPHONY

“Arming is an extremely graceful conductor and under his hand the romanticism of this most muscular and exuberant of the four Schumann symphonies [No. 3] came beautifully to light. He caressed phrasings in the third movement, brought out all the dancing/drinking song character of the scherzo, and the fourth movement was nobility itself.”

THE VANCOUVER SUN

ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL

“[Arming] drew idiomatic playing from the orchestra … His mastery of the long arc of the music and ability to communicate pace and intensity built up irresistible momentum.”[Mahler Symphony No. 9]

ASPEN TIMES

UTAH SYMPHONY

“Christian Arming led the orchestra in a dramatically satisfying performance of Brahms’s ‘Tragic’ Overture and Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 2 … He got an especially fine performance from the string players; their articulation in the devilishly fast passages that open the second movement was particularly noteworthy.”

SALT LAKE TRIBUNE