Concert: Julia Fischer, Oliver Schnyder, Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields — Zurich, 2015-04-21
Migros Kulturprozent Classics Joseph Haydn (1732 — 1809): Violin Concerto in G major Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 — 1847): Double …
All just my personal opinion
Migros Kulturprozent Classics Joseph Haydn (1732 — 1809): Violin Concerto in G major Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 — 1847): Double …
Concert review, Tonhalle Zurich, 2016-10-22: Regula Mühlemann, Joshua Bell and the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra — Mozart: “Exsultate, Jubilate”, K.165; Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, op.64; Beethoven: Symphony No.7 in A major, op.92
Review of a concert at the Zurich Tonhalle, on 2015-04-21, with Julia Fischer, Oliver Schnyder, and the Academy of St.Martin-in-the-Fields, featuring Joseph Haydn’s Violin Concerto in G, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Double Concerto for Violin and Piano in d, and Arnold Schönberg’s “Verklärte Nacht” (Transfigured Night) op.4 — a very enjoyable concert experience, indeed!
Haydn: Cello concertos No.1 C & No.2 D — Maisky (1986), Mørk/Brown (1992), Rostropovich/Brown (1975), Isserlis/Norrington (1996); Haydn: Sinfonia concertante in B♭ major, Hob.I/105 — Antal Doráti (1972), Dennis Russell Davies (2009), Sir Roger Norrington (1996)
(…) stunned by Han-Na Chang’s performance of the Haydn C major concerto (…). That performance dates back some 7 years (2005) — but she had recorded both Haydn concertos already back in 1998, when she was 16; in that YouTube performance, it was amazing to see not only her enormous technical skills, but also her freedom of expression, and how much she has detached herself from technicalities, how much she is totally relaxed and appears to enjoy her own playing while visually communicating with the orchestra…