Yves Riesel pulished a comprehensive podcast interview with Rémy Ballot on the french classical music platform couacs.info:

Shortly after his first live recording as Conductor in Residence of the Richard Strauss Days in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Rémy Ballot and his Rémy Ballot Ensemble publish piano quintets by Schubert and Hummel. Austrian Radio Ö1 presents the recordings with these words: ‘Utmost precision, tonal balance and a fiery style of playing are in no way contradictory, as this interpretation shows.’ You can listen to excerpts of the CD in this broadcast online for 30 days:

‘Uns ist wichtig, kein Weiterbildungsbüffet zu offerieren, sondern Kontinuität.’
1975 – 2025: 50 Jahre Wiener Meisterkurse. Ein MICA Interview mit dem künstlerischen Leiter Jörg Birhance:

Osterreichische Gesellschaft für Musik: 23.4.2025

The Uniqueness of the Eternalized Moment
Artist Talk and Presentation of a New Richard Strauss Days CD Edition

In an artistic-philosophical discussion, Rémy Ballot and Dr. Dominik Šedivý will explore Richard Strauss and the artistic challenges at the intersection of musical theory, everyday artistic practice, and recording techniques.
Moderator: Dr. Peter Kislinger

As part of the event, the new CD will be presented:
Richard Strauss: Don Juan & Ein Heldenleben – Rémy Ballot / Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra (Gramola)

Welcome Addresses:
Ondrej Cerny, Director of the Czech Centre Vienna
Lenka Kavalova, Artistic Director of the Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra

We’re truly delighted to have been invited to contribute to the preparations of the 50th jubilee edition of the internationally renowned ‘Wiener Meisterkurse’, founded in 1975 by legendary Viennese conductor and pedagogue Günther Theuring. This year’s edition has artists and pedagogues such as Miklos Perenyi and Francisco Araiza returning, also former students Ewa Poblocka and for the first time Edgar Moreau. New additions are also pianists such as Severin von Eckardstein or Jan Bartos.

‘Rémy Ballot’s Bruckner cycle is a new benchmark’
‘Ballot’s ‘Ein Heldenleben’ is a masterclass in precision, depth, and virtuosity’
‘From award-winning Bruckner to a sensational Richard Strauss cycle’
‘sheer brilliance in every note!
‘one landmark interpretation after another. A must-listen!’

Thomas Rauchenwald reviews Remy Ballots Strauss Edition from Garmisch-Partenkirchen,
together with Eroica and Egmont Overture (Klangkollektiv Wien):

Intrada – Österreichs Musizierende im Porträt:

Kurz vor dem Bruckner-Jahr 2024 hat der französische Dirigent Rémy Ballot die Gesamteinspielung aller Bruckner-Symphonien in der Stiftsbasilika St. Florian auf CD vorgelegt. Fast zeitgleich mit dieser Veröffentlichung hat er gewissermaßen den Komponisten gewechselt – denn seit 2024 ist Rémy Ballot Conductor in Residence bei den Richard Strauss-Tagen im bayerischen Garmisch. Und auch hier erschien nun die erste CD-Aufnahme: Die Tondichtungen “Don Juan” und “Ein Heldenleben”, die Ballot mit den Pilsner Philharmonikern im Rahmen der Strauss-Tage aufgenommen hat, bilden den Auftakt einer geplanten Strauss-Gesamtaufnahme.
(Gestaltung: Eva Teimel)

Coinciding with the Austrian release of Rémy Ballot’s live recordings from the Richard Strauss Tage in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (international release on 24.3), the Pizzicato Magazine is publishing a first excellent review:

‘If the symphonic poem Ein Heldenleben by Richard Strauss is the reminiscence of an old man, if such reminiscence displaces the negative and emphasizes the positive, if the lyrical passages are brought to the highest expressiveness through warmth, then a conductor is at work who can realize this tone poem coherently and intensively at the same time.

Thus Ballot, an acknowledged Bruckner conductor, also proves to be an excellent Strauss interpreter.‘

For the 75th anniversary of Richard Strauss’ death, the Richard-Strauss-Tage Garmisch-Partenkirchen launched a new Richard Strauss Days Edition in cooperation with Gramola to document the festival in live recordings of Ein Heldenleben and Don Juan. Conductor in Residence Rémy Ballot talks about the influence of Strauss on today’s orchestras, the location of Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the tradition of conducting.

Vienna’s Great Radio Hall invited Remy Ballot and his Ballot Quintet for a performance of the Bruckner Quintet, in this instance also including the Intermezzo as inserted 4th movement. Austrian Radio broadcast the concert on 26th November, it’s available online for another 30 days:

A few weeks after conducting the local premiere performance of Bruckner’s 4th symphony at the renowned Brescia / Bergamo festival, Remy Ballot returned to Italy in August for a performance of Bruckner’s 5th in Bressanone:

Award winning Bruckner Conductor, and Conductor in Residence at the Richard Strauss Tage Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Rémy Ballot and his Ballot Quintet perform Bruckner’s string quintet, including the Intermezzo as added 5th movement, in a live broadcast from Vienna’s Great Radio Hall. Available online from the 26th of November onwards:

Remy Ballot’s cycle of Bruckner symphonies 0-9, recorded over a period of 10 years live at St Florian Abbey, has just been nominated for the 2025 International Classsical Music Awards!

Previous awards include among others the ‘Recording of the Year’ from the American Bruckner Society, and as a very special honour the box serves currently as reference recording at the Austrian National Libraries jubilee Bruckner Exhibition.

Remy Ballot was invited by the Music Faculty of Oxford University to work with the University Orchestra for the Michaelmas Term concert:

Remy Ballot talks about his teacher Sergiu Celibidache in this new episode of the ‘Great moments in music’ ARTE.TV series dedicated to Celibidache and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The shows focus is on the legendary performance of Bruckner’s 7th in 1992. A must for all Bruckner and/or Celibidache fans, not to mention the Berlin Philharmonic.

Remy Ballot has put the St Florian Bruckner Days firmly on the Festival Map with his live recordings of 10 Bruckner symphonies over the last 10 years. With the cycle being the reference recording at the Austrian National Library’s jubliee Bruckner Exhibition, Remy Ballot returned to the jubliee edition of the most authentic of all Bruckner festivals to conduct the 9th symphony. Felix Diergarten introduced the existing fragments of the last movement, prior to a performance of the existing complete 3 movements.

According to critics, ‘Ballot is primarily concerned with the broad structures of this great music. He implements the harmonic instability of this work in the border area between atonal and totally chromatic forms extremely successfully.’

Following up on the Strauss successes Remy Ballot had with the Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra both in Pilsen and also Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the orchestra ventured under Remy Ballot’s direction into further new territory – namely Bruckner’s monunemental 5th symphony, in a perfomance in Brixen.

According to critics, the excellent performance is firmly placed next to Thielemann, in the same tradition where Celibidache already paved the way in his legendary 1985 performance with the Munich Phiharmonic Orchestra.

Remy Ballot was invited to conduct his Riga debut with Sinfonietta Riga and soloist Georgijs Osokins at the 2024 Riga Festival with a program of Vasks and Beethoven. You can hear the entire concert in a broadcast of Latvijas Radio 3 here:

Peteris Vasks: Musica Appassionata (5:46’)
L V Beethoven: Klavierkonzert Nr 4 (30:11’)
L v Beethoven: Symphonie Nr 4 (1:49:00’)

The Ballot Quintet was invited to open the 43rd edition of the renowned chamber music festival ‘Veceri na Gricu’ in Zagreb, to honor the Bruckner jubilee with a perfomance of his string quartet.

According to critics a highlight of the festival, where the members of the quintet ‘were obsessed with listening to each other and constantly creating sculpted collective sound figures, keeping pace with the grateful and sensitive church acoustics.’. You can read the full review here, for all non-Croatian speakers also with the help of Chrome:

Following up on the success of his Garmisch-Partenkirchen debut last year, Remy Ballot returns to the Strauss Tage 2024 as freshly appointed Conductor in Residence, again with the Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra. The two concerts included Heldenleben, Don Juan, several songs and arias with Günther Groissböck, and the re-discovery of Heinrich Gottlieb Noren’s monumental ‘Kaleidoskop’, which established Noren internationally after a premiere performance in Dresden in 1907.