Praise for Brian Wright:
One of the most talented and musically imaginative of our conductors - Daily Telegraph
Brian Wright drove the orchestra like a charioteer and made the improbable dream (Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius) vivid - Evening Standard
Wright and the Royal Phil were wonderfully exact about capturing precise colours and tones; section by section, we seemed to be hearing just the sounds that Berlioz (Grande Messe des Morts) intended ... in short, Wright got the effects, the tempi and the tone illuminatingly right for every movement - Financial Times
From the assertive opening of the first movement, taken at a ‘real’ allegro, to the shattering minor chord that ends the colossal last movement over an hour later, conductor Brian Wright lead his players in a superbly crisp and energised performance (Mahler’s 6th Symphony) - Kent & Sussex Courier
Using clear and simple gestures with what might be called classical restraint, Wright conducted with wonderful skill - The Scotsman
Recent reviews:
Magnificent and memorable ... the glorious interweaving of musical textures - soft and calm, terrible and majestic - brought this masterpiece (Berlioz Requiem) to glorious life. Conductor Brian Wright created an uplifting and cathartic experience - The Observer
Even in the more elegiac parts of the score (Elgar 2nd Symphony) Brian Wright never allowed the tension to sag or become self indulgent. This was a performance working towards a clear goal at the end of the final movement - Adresseavisen, Trondheim
Using clear and simple gestures with what might be called classical restraint, Wright conducted with wonderful skill. The Schubert and Mozart were deeply satisfying ... in the Prokofiev Symphony he obtained a spirited, colourful account, transparent in the slow movement and showing great precision in the fast finale - The Scotsman
It has a freshness and vitality (Tchaikovsky 2nd Symphony) which the RSNO under Brian Wright brought to vivid life ... the Finale, played with bravado and panache, gave a truly exhilarating end to this concert. Brian Wright's conducting was much enjoyed by audience and orchestra alike, and his fluent yet precise direction was a major influence in this exciting performance - The Perthshire Advertiser
An exhilarating performance (Saint-Saens 3rd Symphony) ... Brian Wright generated exactly the right amount of excitement needed to carry the work forward at a cracking pace, but without loss of clarity or fine detail - Kent & Sussex Courier
The passion and commitment of the orchestra was unquestionable (Mahler 9th Symphony) ... The last movement, ending with vague whispers from the strings, is in many ways the hardest to pull off. But on this occasion, under the guidance of Music Director, Brian Wright, the atmosphere was just right. The overall effect was both moving and draining for audience and orchestra alike, and this is how this wonderful music should be - Kent & Sussex Courier
At the Mote Hall on Saturday, with a sudden and unexpected jab of his baton, Brian Wright set his players in Maidstone Symphony Orchestra off on a wild spree. This was his way - and very effective it was - of dealing with one of the most notoriously difficult starts in the orchestral repertoire, that of the tone poem Don Juan by the young Richard Strauss. The horns swooped gleefully on the Don Juan motif, while the full orchestra responded with open-hearted warmth and glowing sonority - Kent & Sussex Courier
Finally one remembers the splendour of the overall conception. An achievement which reconfirmed Wright’s outstanding ability to control big musical structures and forces – Daily Telegraph
Another memorable evening from Brian Wright and MSO. The audience voted with their feet, not in a negative way, but by drumming them on the floor at the end of each piece - Downs Mail
