All just my personal opinion
Concert review, ★★★★, Nicolas Hodges, Baldur Brönnimann, Basel Sinfonietta @ Burghof, Lörrach DE, 2022-11-06 — Ligeti: “San Francisco Polyphony” (1973/74); Mauro Hertig (*1989): “Losing the Red Queen’s Race” for Orchestra (2022); Julian Anderson (*1967): “The Stations of the Sun” (1998); Simon Steen-Andersen (*1976): Concerto for Piano, Sampler, Orchestra, and Video (2014)
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Concert review, Simone Zgraggen, Baldur Brönnimann, Basel Sinfonietta @ Stadtcasino Basel, 2022-05-26 —Aregnaz Martirosyan (*1993): “Kraft” (2022); Alsu Nigmatullina (*1989): “Alexithymie” (2022); Dieter Ammann (*1962): “Unbalanced instability” for violin and chamber orchestra (2013); “Core” (2002); “Turn” (2010); “Boost” (2002)
Pre-concert: Moser String Quartet performing Ammann’s String Quartet No.2, “Distanzenquartett” (2009); —lvaro Rodríguez Cabezas and Miguel Fernández de la Fuente performing Ammann’s “d’accord(s)” for two alto saxophones (2004)
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Concert review, ★★★★, Festival “frauenkomponiert”: Jessica Horsley / Basel Sinfonietta @ Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, 2021-06-07 — Grażyna Bacewicz (1909 – 1969): Uwertura na Orkiestrę (1943); Ruth Gipps (1921 – 1999): Symphony No.2 in B major (1945); Cécile Marti (*1973): Wave Trip (2011); Dorothy Gertrude Howell (1898 – 1982): Koong Shee (1921); Florence Beatrice Price (1887 – 1953): Ethiopia’s Shadow in America (1932)
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Concert review, ★★★½, Nicolas Hodges, Ilan Volkov / Basel Sinfonietta @ Paul Sacher Saal, Don Bosco, Basel, 2021-01-24 (ghost concert) — Tania Léon (*1943): “Ácana” for Chamber Orchestra (2008); Linda Catlin Smith (*1957): “Memory Forms” for Orchestra (1995); Christian G. Wolff (*1934): “Mountain Messengers” for Piano and Orchestra (2021)
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