Name: Between Authentic Drama and Cliché
Item: Julia Hagen & Nayden Todorov
Author: Екатерина Дочева

This gesture, this suggestion of hers, was immediately picked up by Todorov and the orchestra, which turned the passage from a purely instrumental dialogue into the sharing of something shattering, provoking further similar responses — from the oboes, then from the clarinets as well. … The Philharmonic and Nayden Todorov had done their job, approaching Minkin's new creation entirely seriously.