All just my personal opinion
Concert review, ★★★★★, Mizmorim Chamber Music Festival / “Musica notturna”: Gringolts Quartet, Christophe Coin, Alice Burla @ Gare du Nord, Basel, 2022-01-22 — Boccherini: String Quintet in C major, op.30/6, G.324, “La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid”; Milhaud: 4 Visages for viola and piano, op.238; Ravel: String Quartet in F major, M.35
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Mizmorim Chamber Music Festival — “Musica notturna” Luigi Boccherini (1743 – 1805): String Quintet in C major, op.30/6, G.324, “La …
Review (Listening Diary) — Lucile Boulanger performing Solo works for Viola da gamba: 11 Solos by Carl Friedrich Abel (1723 – 1787), as well as the artist’s own transcriptions of solo works by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
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Media review — Bach: The 6 Suites for Cello Solo, BWV 1007 – 1012 — Comparison Summary, Artist and Media Information. 24 artists / 26 complete recordings, from historic to HIP: Casals (1936–1939), Fournier (1961), Bylsma (1979), Rostropovich (1991), Bylsma (1992), ter Linden (1996), Paternoster (1998), Wispelwey (1998), Pandolfo (2000, viola da gamba), Isserlis (2005), Queyras (2007), Gaillard (2010), Wispelwey (2012), Enders (2012/2013), Watkin (2013), Demenga (2014), Dumas (2016), Kashkashian (2017, viola), Malov (2018, violoncello da spalla), Bertrand (2019), Teichmanis (2019), Kloeckner (2020), Rignol (2020), Skalka (2020), Philippe (2021), de Naverán (2021)
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Media Review — J.S. Bach: The Sonatas for Viola da gamba, BWV 1027 – 1029: Jordi Savall / Ton Koopman (1977), Anner Bylsma / Bob van Asperen (1990); Lucile Boulanger / Arnaud De Pasquale (2011); includes “collateral” reviews of works included with the aforementioned CDs, such as J.C.F. Bach’s Sonata in A major, J.S. Bach’s violin sonata BWV 1023, and the Toccata No.2 in C minor, BWV 911
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Concert review, Pablo Ferrández, Dmitry Masleev, Christoph Eschenbach / Bamberger Symphoniker @ Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, 2017-12-18 — Haydn: Cello Concerto Nr.1 in C major, Hob.VIIb:1; Rachmaninoff: “Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini” for piano and orchestra, op.43; Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphony No.5 in D major / D minor, op.107, “Reformation”