"Glistening and nimble, the Scala orchestra is conducted by Markus Stenz, who leads an exceptionally delicate score — its balances and pauses fragile and exposed — with naturalness and a sense of spontaneity."
— New York Times

“Markus Stenz’s conducting realises every detail of the score with the absolute precision Kurtág’s music always demands."
— The Guardian 

“Conductor Markus Stenz draws razor-sharp playing from small clusters of instruments; the moment collective forces let rip, as Clov hovers at the door, is like dazzling light breaking through a dark veil.”
— Financial Times  

“The music, expertly and diligently conducted by Markus Stenz, traces the text in conversational sympathy, with stop-start blurts and urgent, delicate fluencies.”
— The Guardian

  “Markus Stenz’s artful realisation is engaging. The closing orchestral passage, which resembles bright light bursting out of darkness, is dazzlingly hard won.”
— Opera Now

"The cast—Frode Olsen as Hamm, Leigh Melrose as Clov, Leonardo Cortellazzi as Nagg, and Hilary Summers as Nell—sang magnificently, under the exacting guidance of the conductor Markus Stenz."
— New Yorker