Codalario
February 13, 2018
...Sylvain Fabre was superb in percussion, always providing the necessary color and character, painting with total efficiency the storms, thunder, earthquakes and other descriptive elements fundamental in the writing of Rameau.
The Times
May 22, 2018
...notes never cracking once. Sylvain Fabre’s contributions on drums, whistles, castanets, ratchet and wind machine sprinkled delicious pepper,...
Baroque goes nuts
February 22, 2018
...Everything has been given at an appropriate pace, lively, energetic, where it must be cheerful, in other places dramatic. There is also character thanks to the use of a large number of percussion instruments, on which Sylvain Fabre has spectacularly played. There were sheets, wind turbines, drums and cymbals of all sizes. And tambourines.
BaroqiuadeS
December 22, 2017
...carried away by a tempestuous wind remarkably represented by a talented percussionist, Sylvain Fabre, whose technique we had already appreciated during the royal funeral of Louis XIV reconstituted by the Ensemble Pygmalion at the Royal Chapel of the Palace of Versailles. As a true man-orchestra of the world of percussions, he makes the whistle sound like the thunder, the triangle as well as the castanets.
La Libre Belgique
September 8, 2015
To give this patchwork (or pasticcio or opera-collage ...) its life and its brilliance, Daucé had brought together magnificent performers, each in turn in charge of solo interventions: besides the vocal part, magnificently distributed, we note the virtuosity of percussions (Sylvain Fabre) ...
Télérama
May 18, 2015
Recorded "live" at the last festival of Radio France and Montpellier, this Castor and Pollux, version of 1754, confirms the instrumental supremacy of the Pygmalion ensemble (from Sophie Gent's refined solo violin, to Sylvain Fabre's martial percussions).
Altamusica
March 3, 2017
Emmanuelle Haïm makes a beautiful demonstration of strength at the head of his Concert d'Astrée. The gesture is as often sharp and sometimes angular, to the detriment of a certain opulence. The ear is invariably attracted by the passion of string desks, magnified by the senseless virtuosity of percussionist Sylvain Fabre, able to hold a whole universe at the end of his fingers.
ResMusica
October 9, 2015
Leader of the gesture and the look Concert d'Astrée in great form, Emmanuelle Haïm sacrifices a usual angular scansion to a consummate art of textures and melodic lines. Special mention to the incredible art of percussionist Sylvain Fabre, able in a jiffy to scroll through a fantastic marquetry of varied effects and sound surfaces ...
Classicagenda
March 3, 2017
An evening so halftone, long at times, if not for the splendid music of Claudio Monteverdi qu'Emmanuelle Haïm manages to sublimate by guiding accurately and authentically his concert of Astrée, in which we will notice the percussionist Sylvain Fabre, true Mercury of beauty and musicality.