All just my personal opinion
Concert review, Baiba Skride, Andris Nelsons / Boston Symphony Orchestra @ Lucerne Festival, KKL, Lucerne, 2018-09-12 — Bernstein: Serenade after Plato’s “Symposion”, for solo violin, strings, harp, and percussion; Shostakovich: Symphony No.4 in C minor, op.43
Lucerne Festival Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990): Serenade after Plato’s “Symposion”, for solo violin, strings, harp, and percussion Dmitri Shostakovich …
Franz Schubert: Vocal Duets, Trios and Quartets — Ameling/Baker/Schreier/Laubenthal/Fischer-Dieskau/Gerald Moore; Hector Berlioz: Requiem (Grande messe des morts), op.5 — Ozawa/Boston Symphony Orchestra/Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Concert review, ★★★½, Nicolas Hodges, Ilan Volkov / Basel Sinfonietta @ Paul Sacher Saal, Don Bosco, Basel, 2021-01-24 (ghost concert) — Tania Léon (*1943): “Ácana” for Chamber Orchestra (2008); Linda Catlin Smith (*1957): “Memory Forms” for Orchestra (1995); Christian G. Wolff (*1934): “Mountain Messengers” for Piano and Orchestra (2021)
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Concert review, final concert of this year’s Lucerne Festival, at the KKL, 2016-09-11: Gustavo Dudamel, Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), Cynthia Millar (Ondes Martenot), Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar de Venezuela — Olivier Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony
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)