Ceux que l’on surnomme parfois avec dédain “les musiciens du rang du fond” sont aujourd’hui des acteurs majeurs en termes de création contemporaine. Adélaïde Ferrière est de ces percussionnistes qui ont permis à leur famille d’instruments de sortir de l’ornière. Du haut de ses 23 ans, la jeune femme ose pour son premier disque, un programme aussi envoûtant qu’exigeant (…) Saisissant

Le Figaro, Instants classiques n°1, by Thierry Hillériteau, March 2020, Link to full article

Elle se joue des difficultés de ces compositions, et nous force l’admiration. Cette jeune femme nous démontre comment ces musiques d’aujourd’hui sont extrêmement audibles et d’une vivacité réjouissante. Un must cet album.

Vieille Carne, Frédéric Baccala, December 2020

Adélaïde Ferrière displays terrific skill and vibrancy in this impressive disc (…) This is an outstanding debut featuring bravura performances, an imaginative programme and crystal-clear recording quality throughout

BBC Music Magazine, May 2020

The France Musique Choice

France Musique, February 2020

Adélaïde Ferrière shows with this program that she is much more than the young artist to discover(…) a magician

Le Monde, Pierre Gervasoni, February 2020

A programme given with impressive flair

The Times and The Sunday Times, February 2020

The agility of a juggler, the energy of a wild beast (…) percussionist Adélaïde Ferrière has released a wonderful first album where she juggles with dexterity between Xenakis and Mantovani

France Info TV, March 2020

Thought as a plea for contemporary creation and percussion, this disc could only be an invitation to discovery. It is much more thanks to the musicality and immense talent of a complete artist, capable of impressing and captivating

Gang-Flow, March 2020

In this first album, the young percussionist Adélaïde Ferrière gives the measure of her gesture and the finesse of her musician ear

ResMusica, March 2020

Adélaïde Ferrière’s sparkling disc debut (…) Combining agility, dexterity and musicality with an acute mastery of color, she delivers a performance where virtuosity and poetry are one

Crescendo Magazine, March 2020

Virtuoso dexterity, calculated impetuosity and stunning musicality(…) a success !

Ouest France, May 2020

All along, Adélaïde is imperial, subjugating

Froggy’s Delight, February 2020

L’album Contemporary d’Adélaïde Ferrière, nouveau visage de la percussion.

Divertir.Eu, Maxime Lopes

She shows a powerful sense of rhythm and melody, plays like a skilled juggler drums, bongos, marimba, congas, vibraphone and woodblocks where possible elegant and elsewhere with the required ferocity and verve

Musicalifeiten, May 2020

Letter of presentation of the percussionist Adélaïde Ferrière with one foot in contemporary musi (Xenakis, Hurel, Mantovani) and another ina style closer to the relaxed tone of the virtuous Evelyn Glennie (…) the Recital is heard with interest

Scherzo Magazine, May 2020

Adélaïde Ferrière surprises us with this fusion that she has with percussion (…) A real treat for our ears

Classique HD

Who is able to do this ? I suspect nearly noone. What an ambition, energy and precision ! (…) Percussions played with an overwhelming virtuosity . Fascination from the beginning to the end

Opus Klassiek, Aart Van Den Wal, February 2020

All In all, a beautiful album this debut with which this percussionist shows what she is capable of (…) This album is a new Milestone

Nieuwe Noten, June 2020