Gardiner / Monteverdi: Poppea — KKL Lucerne, 2017-08-26

Concert review, Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea @ KKL Lucerne, 2017-08-26 — Sir John Eliot Gardiner / English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir; Hana Blažiková (Poppea, Fortuna), Kangmin Justin Kim (Nerone), Gianluca Buratto (Seneca), Carlo Vistoli (Ottone), Lucile Richardot (Arnalta, Venere), Silvia Frigato (Amore, Valletto), Michał Czerniawski (Nutrice), Anna Dennis (Drusilla, Virtù, Pallade), John Taylor Ward (Mercurio, Littore)

Gardiner / Monteverdi: Orfeo — KKL Lucerne, 2017-08-22

Concert review, Monteverdi: L’Orfeo @ KKL Lucerne, 2017-08-22 — Sir John Eliot Gardiner / English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir; Krystian Adam (Orfeo), Hana Blažiková (La Musica, Euridice), Kangmin Justin Kim (Speranza), Anna Dennis (Ninfa), Lucile Richardot (Messaggiera), Francesca Boncompagni (Proserpina), Gianluca Buratto (Caronte, Plutone), Furio Zanasi (Apollo)

Bezuidenhout, Gardiner, ORR — Zurich, 2016-11-14

Concert review, Tonhalle Zurich, 2016-11-14: Kristian Bezuidenhout, Sir John Eliot Gardiner / Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique — Johannes Brahms: Serenade No.2 in A major for small orchestra, op.16; Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.4 in G major, op.58; Franz Schubert: Symphony No.5 in B♭ major, D.485

Schumann: Symphony No.1 in B♭ major, op.38

Schumann, Symphony No.1 in B♭ major, op.38 — comparing 5 recordings: Bernstein / Vienna Philharmonics (1984); Harnoncourt / Chamber Orchestra of Europe (1996); Gardiner / Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (1997); Zinman / Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (2004); Dausgaard / Swedish Chamber Orchestra Örebro (2007)

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, op.61

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, op.61 — comparing recordings with the following artists: Batiashvili (2007), Busch/Busch (1942), Faust/Abbado (2010), Francescatti/Walter (1961), Grumiaux/Galliera (1966), Heifetz/Munch (1955), Huberman/Szell (1934), Jansen/Järvi (2009), Kennedy (2007), Kopatchinskaja/Herreweghe (2009), Kreisler/Blech (1926), Kremer/Harnoncourt (1992), Menuhin/Furtwängler (1947), Milstein/Szell (1964), Mullova/Gardiner (2002), Oistrakh/Gauk (1952), Oistrakh/Cluytens (1959), Stern/Bernstein (1959), Szeryng/Schmidt-Isserstedt (1965), Suk/Konwitschny (1962), Tetzlaff/Zinman (2005), Zehetmair/Brüggen (1997)