Mendelssohn & Enescu: String Octets (Diary 2023-07-24)

Media Review (Listening Diary) — Gringolts Quartet and Meta4 performing Mendelssohn Octet op.20 & Enescu String Octet op.7; comparisons with Emerson String Quartet (Mendelssohn), Merel Quartet & Castalian String Quartet (Mendelssohn), and Vilde Frang & Friends (Enescu)
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Kitgut Quartet — St.Peter, Zurich, 2020-10-04

Concert review, ★★★★★, Kitgut Quartet @ St.Peter, Zurich, 2020-10-04 — The evolution of the string quartet from consort music by Blow, Purcell, Locke, up to Haydn’s Quartet in D major, op.71/2 — in a fascinating, truly historically informed performance
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Gringolts Quartet — ZHdK, Zurich, 2020-02-24

Concert review, ★★★★½, Gringolts Quartet @ ZHdK Toni-Areal, Zurich, 2020-02-24 — Arnold Schönberg: String Quartet No.3, op.30 (1927); Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No.3 in E♭ minor, op.30 (1876)
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Armida Quartet — St.Peter, Zurich, 2018-07-08

Concert review, Armida Quartet @ St.Peter, Zurich, 2018-07-08 — Bach: The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080; Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor, K.546; Beethoven: String Quartet in B♭ major, op.130 / Great Fugue in B♭ major, op.133

Auryn Quartett — Conservatory Bern, 2018-05-14

Concert review, Auryn Quartett @ Konservatorium Bern, 2018-05-14 — Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, op.10, L.85; Mozart: String Quartet No.17 in B♭ major, K.458, “Hunt”; Grieg: String Quartet No.1 in G minor, op.27

Gringolts Quartet — Zimmermannhaus Brugg, 2018-05-05

Concert review, Gringolts Quartet @ Zimmermannhaus, Brugg / AG, 2018-05-05 — Haydn: String Quartet in G major, op.76/1, Hob.III/75; Lotta Wennäkoski (*1970): Culla d’Aria; Beethoven: String Quartet No.12 in E♭ major, op.127; encore: Dvořák: No.9 from “Cypresses” for String Quartet, B.152