The Liceu orchestra was plastic and technically fine as early as the Nabucco Overture, later putting some drama and little poetry into the introduction to Isabelle de Valois’s aria. Nayden Todorov led with clarity, efficiency and focus to achieve good results throughout the evening.

Nayden Todorov had no qualms about emphasizing large melodic extensions or excited rhythms – his “La Tragenda” was enthusiastically received, confirming the current good level of the Liceu Orchestra. The audience got what they came to hear – an excellent evening.

Sonya Yoncheva was accompanied by the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra conducted by the expressive Bulgarian conductor Nayden Todorov. The musicians played with enthusiasm and passion, getting involved in the imaginative environment of opera arias and symphonic fragments of the evening.

Maestro Nayden Todorov was keenly aware of the nuances. The Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra acted as a faithful assistant to him in this task.

What a frenzied devotion to his music came from the stage. Every sound, every line stood out in the overall message. Articulated, crafted, guided, united by thought in Todorov’s reading. In which the transition to the fourth movement was also marked by the conductor’s personal ideas, by the carefully felt movements in the phrases.

It was really magical what was presented on stage for a good two and a half hours. Actually, it would have been enough just to listen to the orchestra under the direction of Nayden Todorov.

You could feel and see how Todorov managed to get the musicians involved and inspire them. In the sold out Musikverein the audience thanked him with long lasting ovations

Conductor Nayden Todorov pulled out all the musical skills. The audience was thrilled by the contrast between the finely chiseled passages and the rapidly virtuoso parts. In this interpretation, Todorov combined spiritedly gripping gesture and masterly formal overview. The sound beauty and fine sound culture are impressive. Todorov explored the increases under high tension until the final.

In early December we could experience the Sofia Philharmonic under the direction of conductor Nayden Todorov in the sold-out Musikverein. Todorov manages to work out a special, warm and colourful sound. He succeeds in combining the classical Viennese tradition with the Slavic emotion. Conductor and the orchestra are obviously not looking for shows or big effects, but are about the music itself.

In the interpretation of Nayden Todorov you could feel that the conductor comes from Vienna. With the Thuringian Symphony Orchestra he found exactly the right measure to reveal the great rhapsodic breath that permeates the symphony and to make the finest details, enchanting, small stories audible in the figures.