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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Michaela Unsinn, Garden Recital — Uster, 2020-04-13

“soul food delivery” / pandemic relief by guerillaclassics / Michaela Unsinn in Uster/ZH, 2020-04-13: voice recital in a residential quarter, featuring works by Giacomo Meyerbeer, Robert Schumann, Gabriel Fauré, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Leonard Bernstein, Gaetano Donizetti, and Franz Lehár
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Sol Gabetta, Sylvain Cambreling / Kammerorchester Basel — Bern, 2020-01-22

Concert review, ★★★½, Sol Gabetta, Sylvain Cambreling, Kammerorchester Basel @ Casino, Bern, 2020-01-22 — Stravinsky: Concerto in D for string orchestra (“Basle Concerto”); Rihm: Concerto in G (World Premiere); Mendelssohn: Symphony No.3 in A minor, op.56, “Scottish”
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Merel Quartet & Castalian String Quartet — Wetzikon ZH, 2019-09-28

Concert review, ★★★½, Merel Quartet & Castalian String Quartet @ Wetzikon ZH, 2019-09-28 — Mendelssohn: String Quartet No.1 in E♭ major, op.12; Schumann: String Quartet No.2 in F major, op.41/2; Mendelssohn: String Octet in E♭ major, op.20
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Merel Quartet — Zurich, 2019-09-22

Concert review, ★★★★, Merel Quartet @ Kirche St.Peter, Zurich, 2019-09-22 — Mendelssohn: String Quartet No.1 in E♭ major, op.12; Beethoven: String Quartet No.9 in C major, op.59/3, “Razumovsky III”
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