Probst, Sautereau, Zhao, Schnyder, Hope / ZKO — Zurich, 2024-03-19

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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Anastasia Kobekina, Daniel Bard / Kammerorchester Basel — Zürich, 2022-08-17

Concert review, ★★★★½, Anastasia Kobekina, Daniel Bard, Kammerorchester Basel @ Kirche St.Peter, Zurich, 2022-08-17 (Charity Concert, Stradivari-Stiftung Habisreutinger / Hochuli Konzert AG) — Haydn: Symphony No.44 in E Minor, “Trauer-Sinfonie”; Haydn: Cello Concerto No.1 in C major; Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, op.85 (Adagio, arranged for strings and cello)
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Hope / ZKO: Mendelssohn, Bach, Weinberg, Beethoven — Zurich, 2016-09-27

Concert review, Season’s Opening with Daniel Hope & the Zurich Chamber Orchestra (ZKO) — Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Octet in E♭ major, op.20; Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041; Mieczysław Weinberg: Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra, op.42; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.2 in D major, op.36

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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René Jacobs, Kammerorchester Basel, ZSA — Stadtcasino Basel, 2022-12-20

Concert review, ★★★★, René Jacobs, Sunhae Im, Coline Dutilleul, Carlo Vistoli, Fabian Strotmann, Yannick Debus, Kammerorchester Basel, Zürcher Sing-Akademie @ Stadtcasino, Basel, 2022-12-20 — D. Scarlatti (1685 – 1757): “Salve Regina” in A major; J.S. Bach (1685 – 1750): Cantata BWV 147, “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben”; J.S. Bach: “Magnificat” in D major, BWV 243
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Moser String Quartet — Wasserkirche, Zurich, 2022-12-18

Concert review, ★★★★½, Moser String Quartet (Kanon Miyashita, Patricia Muro Francia, Ariadna Bataller Calatayud, Lea Galasso) @ Wasserkirche, Zurich, 2022-12-18 — Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, op.76/2, “Fifths”; Dieter Ammann (*1962): String Quartet No.2, “Distanzenquartett” (2009); Bartók: String Quartet No.1 in A minor, op.7, Sz.40 / BB 52
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