All just my personal opinion
Concert review, ★★★★, Can Çakmur @ Druckerei Baden (Piano District), Baden AG, 2022-11-19 — Mozart: Sonata No.13 in B♭ major, K.333; Schubert: Sonata in A minor, D.845; Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue on the Theme B-A-C-H, S.529/2; Mitropoulos: Passacaglia, Preludio e Fuga; Busoni: Transcription of Bach’s Chorale Prelude for Organ “Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ”, BWV 639 / BV B 27/5
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Concert review: private piano recital by Hando Nahkur, 2016-11-13 — John Adams (*1949): China Gates (1977); Ferruccio Busoni: 2 Transcriptions of Chorale-Preludes by Bach (BWV 639, BWV 659); Franz Liszt: Transcription of Schumann’s “Widmung”, S.566; Erkki-Sven Tüür (*1959): Piano Sonata (1985); Franz Liszt: “Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude”, S.173; Franz Liszt: Concert Paraphrase on “Rigoletto”, S.434
The first part of this evening was devoted to Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, op.30 — a well-respected benchmark among pianists of the top league. Lise de la Salle played this concerto eloquently, with compassion — she visibly lived with the music, also in the orchestral parts: her playing is fluent, competent, aimed at a full, rounded sound…
Personal report on the Philharmonic Concert at Zurich Opera, 2013-12-22: Lise de la Salle and Fabio Luisi / Philharmonia Zurich — Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, op.18; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 in B minor, op.74, “Pathétique”