Gabetta, Alsop / London Philharmonic Orchestra — Lucerne, 2018-09-14

Concert review, Sol Gabetta, Marin Alsop / London Philharmonic Orchestra — Lucerne Festival, KKL, Lucerne, 2018-09-14 — Elgar: “The Wand of Youth”, Suites No.1 & 2 for Orchestra, op.1a/1b (excerpts); Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, op.85; Mahler: Symphony No.1 in D major, “Titan”

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.

Kopatchinskaja & Fischer / COE — Tonhalle Zurich, 2016-05-09

Concert Review: Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Thierry Fischer / Chamber Orchestra of Europe @ Tonhalle Zurich, 2016-05-09 — Mieczysław Weinberg: Symphony No.10 in A minor, op.98; Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor, op.63; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.7 in A major, op.92

Schumann: Cello Concerto (Diary 2016-05-03)

Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto in A minor, op.129, in the new recording with Jean-Guihen Queyras and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, directed by Pablo Heras-Casado, compared to legacy recordings with Gregor Piatigorsky & Sir John Babirolli / London Philharmonic Orchestra (1934) and Mstislav Rostropovich & Gennadi Rozhdestvensky / Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (1961)