All just my personal opinion
Received from the composer, for reviewing: M.V. Waller — “The South Shore” (2015): (…) Michael Vincent Waller’s music is typically calm, contemplative, meditative, and it (usually slowly) evolves from small melodic, harmonic, and/or rhythmic cells, avoiding abrupt changes in dynamics and texture. In many ways (and in many pieces) it reminds me of chamber music by Arvo Pärt…
Concert review, ★★★★★, Mizmorim Chamber Music Festival / “Musica notturna”: Gringolts Quartet, Christophe Coin, Alice Burla @ Gare du Nord, Basel, 2022-01-22 — Boccherini: String Quintet in C major, op.30/6, G.324, “La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid”; Milhaud: 4 Visages for viola and piano, op.238; Ravel: String Quartet in F major, M.35
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Concert review, ★★★★½, Valentine Michaud, Baldur Brönnimann / Lucerne Festival Alumni @ Lucerne, 2020-08-23 — Barblina Meierhans (*1981): At a Distance (2020); Nadir Vassena (*1970): “materia oscura” for saxophone and ensemble (2006);
Oscar Bianchi (*1975): “Contingency” for ensemble (2017)
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Blog post #489 — Review, Charity Concert (Orphanhealthcare Foundation), Students of the Engadin International Piano Summer Academy 2017 @ Zurich, 2019-04-30 —
Richard Octaviano Kogima — Bach: English Suite No.3 in G minor, BWV 808;
Meta Fajdiga — Liszt: Consolation #3 S.172/3; Liszt: Après une lecture du Dante, S.161/7;
Jérémie Conus — Martin: 8 Préludes;
Aleksandr Kliuchko — Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M.55
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Concert review, Paul Huang & Orion Weiss @ Lukaskirche, Lucerne, 2018-09-04 — Dvořák: Sonatina in G major, op.100, B.183; Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No.1 in F minor, op.80; Ysaÿe: Rêve d’enfant in A♭ major, op.14; Franck: Violin Sonata in A major
Concert review, Kaleidoscope String Quartet, Baldur Brönnimann, Basel Sinfonietta @ Basel, 2018-06-10 — Mason Bates: Mothership (2011); Simon Heggendorn: Simply that (2018) & Cascades (2018); Missy Mazzoli: River Rouge Transfiguration (2013); Heggendorn: Lava (2018); Philip Glass: Dance from “Akhnaten” (1984); Heggendorn: Choral (2014) & Horizons (2018)