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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Alexandra Dovgan, Leia Zhu, Paavo Järvi, Tonhalle Orchestra @ Zurich, 2023-04-01

Concert review, ★★★★, Leia Zhu, Alexandra Dovgan, Paavo Järvi, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich @ Tonhalle am See, Zurich, 2023-04-01 (Orpheum Foundation) — Chopin: Piano Concerto in F minor, op.21, B.43, CT 48; Scriabin: Étude in D♯ minor, op.8/12 (encore); Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, op.35; Hindemith: Sonata for Solo Violin op.11/6, III. Finale, Lebhaft (encore); Ravel: “La Valse”, poème choréographique pour orchestre, M.72
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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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Joseph-Maurice Weder — Piano Recital, Zurich, 2019-01-15

Blog post #461 — Concert review, ★★★, Piano Recital Joseph-Maurice Weder @ ETHZ, Zurich, 2019-01-15 — Jannik Giger (*1985): Accelerated for Piano (2017); Janáček: Piano Sonata “1 X 1905”; Richard Dubugnon (*1968): Sonata V for solo piano, op.82 (2018); Liszt: Sonata in B minor, S.178
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Schaghajegh Nosrati — Piano Recital, Lucerne, 2018-11-22

Concert review, Piano Recital, Schaghajegh Nosrati @ Lukaskirche, Lucerne, 2018-11-22 (Lucerne Piano Festival 2018, Debut Recital) — Johann Sebastian Bach: Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971; Charles-Valentin Alkan: Concerto pour piano seul, op.39/8 – 10