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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Sophie Klussmann, Jürg Dähler, Claire Huangci — Wasserkirche, Zurich, 2020-09-25

Concert review, ★★★★, Sophie Klussmann, Jürg Dähler, Claire Huangci (Swiss Chamber Soloists) @ Wasserkirche, Zurich, 2020-09-25 — ViaBrahms: Brahms: Lieder op.91, op.107 (3&5), 96/2, op.95 (2&6), op.105/2; Brahms: Intermezzi opp.117/2, 118/2, 119/1; Sonata for viola and piano op.120/2; Christian Jost: Lieder “Tagtraum” and “Landschaft”; Nadir Vassena: Song “Cenere, o terra”; Mischa Käser: Lied “Die Revolution”; Xavier Dayer: Song “Il vient me dire l’impossible naufrage”
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CD — Silke Aichhorn: «Miniaturen 4» for Harp

CD Review: “Miniaturen 4” — German harpist Silke Aichhorn performing original compositions and transcriptions by Gillmann, Oberthür / Beethoven, Brahms, Stölzel / Bach, Weiss, Thomas, Pierné, Godefroid, Parish-Alvars, Glinka, Akyol, Williams, and Bach

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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Pierre-Laurent Aimard — Piano Recital, Zurich, 2017-05-23

Concert Review, Pierre-Laurent Aimard @ Tonhalle Zurich, 2017-05-23 — Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828): Piano Sonata No.18 in G major, D.894; György Kurtág (*1926): “Passio sine nomine” and other works; Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827): Piano Sonata No.23 in F minor, op.57, “Appassionata”

Stephen Kovacevich — Piano Recital, Baden/CH, 2015-09-18

Piano recital by Stephen Kovacevich in Baden / Switzerland, 2015-09-18, featuring Alban Berg’s Piano Sonata in B minor, op.1, and Franz Schubert’s last two Piano Sonatas, the Sonata in A major (D.959), and the Sonata in B♭ major (D.960)