All just my personal opinion
In response to reader comments & suggestions: once written, my media reviews and comparisons can usually not be amended / expanded. After all, the blog is a “one man show”. However, comments and suggestions by readers can form a valuable complement to any review or comparison.
Blog post #546 — #rolfsmblog •
Concert review, Claire Huangci, Heiko Mathias Förster / Prague Royal Philharmonic @ Zurich, 2018-10-20 — Works by Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture “Leonore” No.3 in C major, op.72b / Piano Concerto No.5 in E♭ major, op.73, “Emperor” / Symphony No.6 in F major, op.68, “Pastorale”
Concert Review: Khatia Buniatishvili, Paavo Järvi / Orchestre de Paris @ Tonhalle Zurich, 2016-05-28 — Richard Dubugnon: Caprice for Orchestra, op.72/2; Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, op.54; Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.6 in B minor, op.54
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!
Lieder recordings (Beethoven & Schumann) with Fischer-Dieskau/Moore, Wunderlich/Giesen, Goerne/Schneider, Terfel/Martineau, Bostridge/Drake; Schumann: Piano Quintet op.44, Piano Quartet op.47 — Melnikov/Jerusalem Quartet, Levine/LaSalle Quartet; Webern: 6 Bagatellen, 5 Movements for string quartet, op.5 — Hagen Quartett
Back in the “vinyl days”, comparing various interpretations was cumbersome, even if one had access to multiple turntables (…): if you didn’t want to listen to entire interpretations, one after each other (making it hard to remember all details from interpretations just heard), you were bound to have multiple LPs ready in their sleeves, place them on a turntable, position the needle…