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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Master & Students #3 — Festival Academy Budapest, 2018-07-27

Review, Festival Academy Budapest, Day 5: Master and Students concert @ Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Solti Hall, Budapest, 2018-07-27, with Jan-Erik Gustafsson, Philippe Tondre, Zsolt Fejérvári, Yuri Zhislin, and Natalia Lomeiko — Kodály: Duo for Violin and Cello, op.7; Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F major, K.370/368b; Dvořák: String Quintet No.2 in G major, op.77, B.49; Mendelssohn: Octet in E♭ major, op.20; Dvořák: Piano Quintet No.2 in A major, op.81, B.155

Festival Academy Budapest 2018, Day 4 — 2018-07-26

Concert review, Festival Academy Budapest, “Music has Soul” @ Budapest, 2018-07-26 — Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G major, BWV 1048; Straight Labyrinth (InFusion Trio & String Quartet); Gipsy Music; Argentine Tangos (Concert on the boat “Európa”)

Festival Academy Budapest 2018, Day 3 — 2018-07-25

Concert review, Festival Academy Budapest, Concert “The Taste of the Spring is Always New” @ Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Solti Hall, Budapest, 2018-07-25 — Romanian folk music; Enescu: Violin Sonata No.3 in A minor, op.25; Dragony: Lángrózsa Song Cycle (Poems by Melinda Fellegi); Schumann: Piano Quintet in E♭ major, op.44

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