Reviews

The youthful players work wonderfully with their intelligent director, British violinist Anthony Marwood. They brought a warm, agile and clean sound. Focused unisons conjured images of white-hot comet centers with celestial trails. Busier sequences can emerge ponderous in such orchestral arrangements, yet in this driving account [the piece] moved like a sports car
Washington Post

Their performance was so rich and so persuasive that there was nothing to do but bask in the amazing fullness and complexity of what they managed to present.
Irish Times

The best orchestra in this country by far - indisputably one of the best chamber orchestras in the world
Sunday Tribune

This concert was an evening of magical, vibrant music making, given by players who were loving what they were doing and showing it.
Irish Examiner

Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings simply overflowed with interpretative novelties. The Tchaikovsky was given a performance so arresting in conception and so mesmerising in execution that there was not a dull moment throughout.
Irish Times

A sublime performance of Mendelssohn's Octet brought the audience to its feet at the close of the first concert of the latest spring series by the ICO. The clarity, expressiveness and perfection of ensemble was as near flawless as one could imagine.
Irish Examiner

It takes a world authority to recognise world class, and word has it that guest Hungarian conductor Gabor Takacs-Nagy, founder of one of the greatest quartets in this era, has been unstinting in his praise for the ICO. The reaction [at the end of the concert] was spontaneous combustion as the audience burst into whoops, hollers and unrestrained applause.
Sunday Business Post