Mendelssohn & Enescu: String Octets (Diary 2023-07-24)

Media Review (Listening Diary) — Gringolts Quartet and Meta4 performing Mendelssohn Octet op.20 & Enescu String Octet op.7; comparisons with Emerson String Quartet (Mendelssohn), Merel Quartet & Castalian String Quartet (Mendelssohn), and Vilde Frang & Friends (Enescu)
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Piemontesi, Mena / Lucerne Symphony Orchestra — Lucerne, 2019-11-13

Concert review, ★★★★, Francesco Piemontesi, Juanjo Mena / Lucerne Symphony Orchestra @ KKL, Lucerne, 2019-11-13 — Haydn: Symphony No.88 in G major; Liszt: Piano Concerto No.2 in A major, S.125; Bartók: Divertimento, Sz.113 / BB 118; Kodály: Variations on a Hungarian folk song
Blog post #520 — #rolfsmblog •

Vilde Frang & Friends — Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, 2018-03-12

Concert review: Vilde Frang, Tai Murray, Gregory Ahss, Rosanne Philippens, Lawrence Power, Lily Francis, Nicolas Altstaedt, Jan-Erik Gustafsson @ Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, 2018-03-12 — Veress: Trio per archi (1954); Arensky: String Quartet No.2 in A minor, op.35; Enescu: String Octet in C major, op.7

DVD — Mahler: Symphony No.8 — Riccardo Chailly / LFO

Gustav Mahler, Symphony No.8 in E♭ major (“Symphony of a Thousand”) — Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra (Lucerne Festival 2016, Opening Concert in the KKL); with Ricarda Merbeth, Juliane Banse, Anna Lucia Richter, Sara Mingardo, Mihoko Fujimura, Andreas Schager, Peter Mattei, Samuel Youn, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Latvian Radio Choir, Orfeón Donostiarra, Tölzer Knabenchor. Blu-ray disk, received for reviewing.