All just my personal opinion
Concert review, ★★★★½, Marc Minkowski / Les Musiciens du Louvre, Ana Maria Labin, Ambroisine Bré, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Norman D. Patzke @ Victoria Hall, Geneva, 2018-12-13 — Mozart: Arrangement of Handel’s Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, K.592; Mozart: Great Mass in C minor, K.427
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Concert review, ★★★★, Mikhail Pochekin @ Zurich University, Zurich, 2024-03-22 (Musik an ETHZ und UZH) — Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750): “Sei Solo” — The Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo, BWV 1001 – 1006
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Concert review, ★★★★, Orpheum Foundation — Young Soloists on Stage: Tassilo Probst, Jean Sautereau, Yilan Zhao, Oliver Schnyder, Daniel Hope / ZKO @ Tonhalle am See, Zurich, 2024-03-19 — Mozart: String Quartet (Divertimento) in D major, K.136 (125a), “Salzburg Symphony No.1”; Bach: Concerto in D minor for 2 violins, BWV 1043; Bruch: Double Concerto for violin, viola and orchestra in E minor, op.88; Mozart: Concerto for 2 pianos and orchestra in E♭ major, K.365
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CD Review — Lina Tur Bonet / Musica Alchemica performing violin sonatas by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644 – 1704): sonatas I, III, V, VI from Sonatae Violino solo 1681, Sonata V, VII from Harmonia artificio-ariosa (1696). In comparison, a (partly) complementary recording by John Holloway (sonatas III, IV, VI, VII from Sonatae Violino solo 1681, unpublished sonatas Nos.81 & 84
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Media review — Bach: Suite No.2 for Cello Solo in D minor, BWV 1008. 24 artists / 26 complete recordings, from historic to modern to HIP: Casals (1936), Fournier (1961), Bylsma (1979), Rostropovich (1991), Bylsma (1992), ter Linden (1996), Paternoster (1998), Wispelwey (1998), Pandolfo (2000, viola da gamba), Isserlis (2005), Queyras (2007), Gaillard (2010), Wispelwey (2012), Enders (2012), Watkin (2013), Demenga (2014), Dumas (2016), Kashkashian (2017, viola), Malov (2018, violoncello da spalla), Bertrand (2019), Teichmanis (2019), Kloeckner (2020), Rignol (2020, viola da gamba), Philippe (2021), de Naverán (2021), Skalka (2020)
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Review (Listening Diary) — Lucile Boulanger performing Solo works for Viola da gamba: 11 Solos by Carl Friedrich Abel (1723 – 1787), as well as the artist’s own transcriptions of solo works by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
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