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06/11/2023
“The work combines three planes of sound that it is Asier Puga's task to coordinate and bring to fruition. This conductor is one of the most important young talents I have been lucky enough to hear and his work in this institution, the Orquesta de Cámara del Auditorio de Zaragoza-Grupo Enigma, is simply priceless.”
PLATEA MAGAZINE, Enrique Bert (critic) Read the complete review here
31/07/2023
“This version of Oresteïa has remained in my memory as one of the great concerts I have attended in the 21st century.”
“Xenakis himself often commented that what was most important when performing his music was how it sounded and not so much the extreme fidelity to what he had written (which had to be adapted to multiple performative variables). It seems obvious that this was Asier Puga's great achievement in his exemplary concertation of Grupo Enigma, the Ensemble Vocal Teselas and the Coro Infantil Amadeus-IN. Achieving the magic and maintaining it during the concert is the fruit of long and intense days of rehearsal, during which the conductor-concertmaster has gained the full confidence of each and every one of the individual performers”.
MUNDO CLÁSICO, Xoán M. Carreira (crítico) Read the complete review here
04/07/2023
“Faced with an optimal acoustic, but certainly difficult for the instruments, and faced with the risk that the radical Xenakian poetics could have been diluted, Asier Puga fastened an iron version of spastic energy, not even lessened by the textual interpolations of the narrator, Simón Ferrero, effective in his contextual role”.
ÓPERA ACTUAL, Ismael G. Cabral (critic) Read the complete review here
19/04/2023
“The Grupo Enigma, conducted by Asier Puga, brilliantly resolved [...] the programme centred on one of the great German composers of the Weimar Republic”.
“And so the concert went: recovering not the myth of the happy 1920s, but the talent of its creators and, incidentally, showing the talent of its current performers and conductor”.
EL PERIÓDICO DE ARAGÓN, Javier Losilla (critic) Read the complete review here
05/12/2022
“Ciklus Ensemble is once again the great musical protagonist, under the conducting of Asier Puga. With this group and this conductor we are in front of some authentic references of what contemporary music performance means; following this group means being up to date with new musical forms and ensuring a rigorous performance, made from the confidence in the work and the empathy shown with the current composition”.
“Everything, coordinated and conducted by Asier Puga, who is once again an example of what a neat, exact and heartfelt work is. Having listened to the concert, one can only express one's joy at the high level of the performance and the symbiosis between each and every one of the musicians with the composer's work”.
PLATEA MAGAZINE, Enrique Bert (critic) Read the complete review here
25/10/2022
“He had an artistic complicity of the first order. First of all, a truly luxurious instrumental group, the Ciklus Ensemble, [...] conducted by another luxury accomplice, Asier Puga, a sound sentinel of many carats”.
EL PAÍS, Jorge Fernández Guerra (critic) Read the complete review here