Piano Recital Gaspard Dehaene — Zurich, 2022-05-12

Concert review, ★★★, Piano Recital Gaspard Dehaene @ Aula, Zurich University, 2022-05-12 (Musik an ETH und UZH / Musical Discovery) — Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, Prelude & Fugue No.22 in B♭ minor, BWV 891; Mozart: Rondo in A minor, K.511; Chopin: Barcarole op.60; 3 Mazurki, op.63; Ballade No.4 in F minor, op.52; Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.29 in B♭ major, op.106 (“Hammerklavier”); Encore by Schubert: Hungarian Melody in B minor, D.817
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Nehring, Ridout, Zinman / Tonhalle Orchestra — Zurich, 2019-05-24

Blog post #498 — Concert review, ★★★★, Szymon Nehring, Timothy Ridout, David Zinman / Tonhalle Orchestra @ Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, 2019-05-24 (Young Soloists On Stage — Orpheum Foundation) — Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 in C major, op.15; Walton: Viola Concerto (1929); Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story”
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Kaleidoscope String Quartet, Brönnimann, Sinfonietta — Basel, 2018-06-10

Concert review, Kaleidoscope String Quartet, Baldur Brönnimann, Basel Sinfonietta @ Basel, 2018-06-10 — Mason Bates: Mothership (2011); Simon Heggendorn: Simply that (2018) & Cascades (2018); Missy Mazzoli: River Rouge Transfiguration (2013); Heggendorn: Lava (2018); Philip Glass: Dance from “Akhnaten” (1984); Heggendorn: Choral (2014) & Horizons (2018)

Organ Fascination

(…) once my record collection started featuring organ recordings — though organ recordings took a rather slow and non-systematic start. At least, the beginning was OK — for that time (1970), at least: a box with all of Handel’s organ concertos, played by the Collegium aureum and Rudolf Ewerhart on magnificent organs such as the famous Gabler organ in Weingarten, or the Riepp organs in Ottobeuren…

Music Dreams

(…) throughout high school I was (day)dreaming about what I wanted / liked / wished to make out of music in my life: I had the idea of becoming a conductor! I mostly kept that for myself, certainly did not mention it to schoolmates — but I have once mentioned it to my violin teacher at high school. He told me to …