All just my personal opinion
Blog post #481 — Concert review, ★★★★, Olga Kern @ Aula, University Zurich, 2019-03-27 — Rachmaninoff: Etudes-Tableaux (sel.); Préludes (sel.); Moment Musical op.16/4, Barcarolle op.10/3, Polichinelle op.3/5; Gershwin: 3 Preludes; Wild/Gershwin: “Fascinating Rhythm”; Scriabin: Études, op.8 (4 & 5); Balakirev: Islamey; Encores by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Lyadov, Rimsky-Korsakov
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Concert review, ★★★★½, Konstantin Scherbakov @ Aula der Universität, Zurich, 2023-04-20 (Musik an der ETH und UZH) — Hommage à Sergei Rachmaninoff, on the Occasion of the Composer’s 150th Anniversary: Morceaux de fantaisie, op.3: Nos.1, 2, 3, 4; Morceaux de Salon op.10: Nos.2, 3, 6, 5; Études-tableaux op.33: Nos.2, 5, 7, 6; Préludes op.32: Nos.10, 11, 12; Préludes op.23: Nos.4, 5, 6, 7; Études-tableaux, op.39: Nos.5, 9; Moment Musical op.16/3; 4 Pieces (1887/1888): 3. Melody in E major
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Concert review, ★★★★½, Veriko Tchumburidze, Can Çakmur @ Aula, Zurich University, 2022-11-11 (Musik an der ETH und UZH) — Mozart: Sonata No.32 for Piano and Violin in B♭ major, K.454 Schumann: 3 Romances, op.94; Saint-Saëns: Violin Sonata No.1 in D minor, op.75; Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H, S.529/2;
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Concert review, ★★★★★, Tetiana Shafran @ Alte Kantonsschule, Zurich, 2022-10-22 — Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.2 in A major, op.2/2; Ravel: Sonatine, M.40; Chopin: Rondo in E♭ major, op.16; Chopin: Nocturne No.17 in B major, op.62/1; Liszt: Ballade No.2 in B minor, S.171; Liszt: Étude No.3 G♯ minor, “La Campanella”, S.141/3, from 6 Grandes Études de Paganini; Lysenko: Elegie
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Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov (1855 – 1914): Complete piano works, including works for piano 4-hands, and for 2 pianos 8-hands, performed by Marco Rapetti, Akanè Makita, Giampaolo Nuti, and Daniela de Santis (5 CDs, 2010); includes a short look at an alternative recording (2012 / 2016) by Olga Solovieva
Dmitri Shostakovich, Preludes & Fugues op.87: comparison, recordings by Tatiana Nikolayeva (1962), Boris Petrushansky (1992/92), Vladimir Ashkenazy (1998), Konstantin Scherbakov (1999), and Alexander Melnikov (2009)