“Estellés is exceptional, positive and resourceful. He made a creation out of ‘In Freundschaft’ by Stockhausen.”
“José Luis Estellés was flawless”.
“Estellés played like an angel in the Schubert lied ‘The Sheperd on the Rock’.”
“José-Luis Estellés seduced us with the warmth and quality of his clarinet sound, especially in K489 by Mozart, where he amazed us with the smoothness and delicacy with which he dispatched the articulation and phrasing.”
“José-Luis Estellés has created, with this young team, one of the best pit orchestras that I have ever heard in Spain and his contribution to the success of the evening was vital.”
“The true nature of his playing lies not just at the intellectual level of interpretation, but in his ability to open doors in a way that approximates to the very act of creation at its most elemental: sheer physical enjoyment”.
“…this quintet of the highest compositional conception, was literally embroidered with the playing of the splendid Estellés who seems gifted with a virtuosity which is always musical and where nothing is forced”.
“On the podium, José-Luis Estellés, the exceptional clarinettist and, as far as we can see, a good conductor who has now earned much success in this other facet of his artistic career.”
“The splendour of the clarinet. A virtuoso clarinettist and excellent musician. The marvellous way in which he can create a sound, revealing in the process his extraordinary technique, caught and held the attention of all those attending the concert”.
“A cornucopia of contemporary music. Estellés opened the session at the highest artistic level, blessed with the power and fire of his interpretative creativity”.
CK