Redkin, Temirkanov / Saint Petersburg Philharmonic — Lucerne, 2018-09-04

Concert review, Sergei Redkin, Yuri Temirkanov / Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra @ Lucerne Festival, KKL, Lucerne, 2018-09-04 — Rimsky-Korsakov: “The Three Miracles” from the opera “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”; Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, op.18; Tchaikovsky: Suite from Act II of the ballet “The Nutcracker,” op.71 (arr. Temirkanov)

Kanneh-Mason, Tjeknavorian, Sanderling / TOZ — Zurich, 2018-03-14

Concert review, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Michael Sanderling / Tonhalle Orchestra @ Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, 2018-03-14 — Dvořák: Carnival Overture, op.92; Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No.1 in E♭ major, op.107; Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, op.77; includes a brief review of Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s debut CD

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, op.61

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, op.61 — comparing recordings with the following artists: Batiashvili (2007), Busch/Busch (1942), Faust/Abbado (2010), Francescatti/Walter (1961), Grumiaux/Galliera (1966), Heifetz/Munch (1955), Huberman/Szell (1934), Jansen/Järvi (2009), Kennedy (2007), Kopatchinskaja/Herreweghe (2009), Kreisler/Blech (1926), Kremer/Harnoncourt (1992), Menuhin/Furtwängler (1947), Milstein/Szell (1964), Mullova/Gardiner (2002), Oistrakh/Gauk (1952), Oistrakh/Cluytens (1959), Stern/Bernstein (1959), Szeryng/Schmidt-Isserstedt (1965), Suk/Konwitschny (1962), Tetzlaff/Zinman (2005), Zehetmair/Brüggen (1997)

Early Encounters with Music

… I listened to all the shallow music that was broadcasted on the radio around 1960 (our radio was an old “steam radio” built into a book shelf). I also distinctly remember that on Sundays the radio always played classical music — typically chamber music, such as music for wind instruments by Mozart — and I hated that music — not because I disliked it, but …