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CD review: Timothy Ridout, Jamie Phillips & Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne (OCL) performing works for viola and orchestra (Claves Records S.A., ℗ / © 2020). Compositions by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958), Bohuslav Martinů (1890 – 1959), Paul Hindemith (1895 – 1959), and Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976).
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CD review: Izabel Markova (*1997) performing British Music for viola and piano (Claves Records S.A., ℗ / © 2023). Compositions by Rebecca Clarke (1886 – 1979), Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976), and York Bowen (1884 – 1961). Piano accompaniment: Irene Puccia and Alla Belova.
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Concert review, ★★★★½, Lev Sivkov — Cello Recital @ Zurich, 2020-01-21 — Works for cello solo; Reger: Suite No.1; Berio: Les mots sont allés… — “recitativo” for Cello (1978); Britten: Suite No.2, op.80; Ibert: “Ghirlarzana” quasi adagio; Bach: Suite No.3 in C major, BWV 1009;
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Concert review, ★★★★, Artemis Quartet (Vineta Sareika, Anthea Kreston, Gregor Sigl, Eckart Runge) @ LAC / Teatrostudio, Lugano, 2019-03-15 — Barber: II. Molto adagio from String Quartet op.11 (a.k.a. Adagio for Strings, op.11a); Britten: String Quartet No.2 in C major, op.36; Schubert: String Quartet No.14 in D minor, D.810, “Death and the Maiden”
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Concert review, Leif Ove Andsnes, Lionel Bringuier / Tonhalle Orchestra @ Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, 2018-05-16 — Honegger: Mouvement symphonique No.2, H.67, “Rugby”; Britten: Piano Concerto in D major, op.13; Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphonic Suite “Schéhérazade”, op.35
Concert review: Steven Isserlis, Thomas Dausgaard / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra @ Royal Festival Hall, London, 2018-04-04 — Benjamin Britten: Four Sea Interludes from “Peter Grimes”, op.33a; Sir Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, op.85; Sergei Rachmaninoff: 3 Symphonic Dances, op.45