Harry Ogg

Press

• Bruckner Orchestra Linz

  Linz, Austria

  Apr 2024

  • Harry Ogg and the Bruckner Orchestra also played their part here, carrying their very young colleague with more than just a hand and accompanying her with absolute attentiveness and a finely balanced sound. These qualities were also evident in the Enigma Variations, which were interpreted in an exceptionally appealing and multi-layered manner. Harry Ogg avoided clichéd interpretative traditions and followed the score very closely in his reading, presenting Elgar as a subtle sound magician. [TRANSLATION]

    • OÖNachrichten
    • 12 April 2024

  • British conductor Harry Ogg took to the podium of the Bruckner Orchestra for the first time at the Brucknerhaus and performed the rare Beethoven/Edward Elgar programme. It is easy to guess that his compatriot Elgar (1857-1934) is one of his favourite composers. The second reason for the connection to Beethoven was explained at the start of the evening with his favourite "Egmont" Overture op. 84 from 1810. And Elgar concealed echoes of Beethoven in his Enigma Variations (named after the ancient Greek word for riddle) played at the end, which were hardly discovered. Great guest conductor! It was easy to sympathise with the guest conductor Ogg. With his unobtrusive, yet temperamental character, he quickly warmed to our orchestra. The dramatic flourishes of an accomplished opera conductor could not be ignored, but his emotional relationship to English music, with its often hidden expressive depth, was also convincing

    • Volksblatt
    • 12 April 2024

• Paris Conducting debut

  Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

  • 'A total, complete success, especially since the young British conductor [...] Harry Ogg, whom I did not know, was for me a revelation, leading an OCP in magnificent form.' [TRANSLATION]

    • Le Blog de Jean Pierre Rousseau

• Düsseldorf New Years Concert

  Düsseldorf Symphoniker

  Jan 2024 - Jan 2024

  • The Briton is blessed with charm, sensitivity and an excellent command of the German language: the best prerequisites for the balancing act between light entertainment and high art. Even a popular hit like Georges Bizet's "Carmen" suite doesn't sound like oom-pah music under his direction. With Ogg, panache is happily combined with elegance, with a truly artistic feel for the esprit and colours of a score. This particularly benefits the French part of the programme: Maurice Ravel's "Alborada del gracioso" is a celebration of Spanish colour, despite its explosive rhythms. Under the pattering of the castanets and percussion, it is as if the orchestra has been transformed into a large flamenco guitar.

    • Rheinische Post
    • 03 January 2024

• “The Strangers” Frank Pesci

  Oper Köln

  Sep 2023 - Oct 2023

  • The Gürzenich Orchestra under the direction of the young conductor Harry Ogg once again demonstrates its class and manages to retain the necessary lightness of the jazz-inspired features of the work, while at the same time facing up to the delicate demands of New Music with great accuracy.

    • Der Opernfreund
    • 06 October 2023

  • Decisive to the result was the solid leadership of the young conductor Harry Ogg, who directs the 16 talented instrumentalists of the Gürzenich Orchester and all the performers in their frequent movements with exemplary precision from the centre of the hall.

    • GIORNALE DELLA MUSICA
    • 16 October 2023

  • THE MASSIVE sonic density of the orchestral fabric, unravelled with precision by Harry Ogg, often forced the performers, including Martin Koch, leader of the 'law and order' faction, and David Howes, police inspector, into a sometimes stentorian and monotone declamation.

    • COLONIA
    • 07 October 2023