All just my personal opinion
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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Concert review, ★★★★★, Ilya Gringolts, Nicolas Altstaedt, Alexander Lonquich — Hans Huber-Saal, Stadtcasino, Basel, 2023-01-21 (Mizmorim Chamber Music Festival) — Debussy: Piano Trio in G major, L.5; Wolpe: From “Three Time Wedding” for Piano; Kodály: Duo for Violin and Cello, op.7; Bloch: “From Jewish Life” for Cello and Piano; Bloch: “Nigun” from “Baal Shem” for Violin and Piano; Korngold: Piano Trio in D major, op.1
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Concert review, ★★★★½, Gringolts Quartet, Jascha Nemtsov, Tehila Nini Goldstein @ Gare du Nord, Basel, 2023-01-20 (Mizmorim Chamber Music Festival) — Victor Alexandru Colțea (*1986): “Rough Surfaces” for String Quartet (2022); Songs from the postcard project “Songs of the Early Pioneers” (1938-1939), by Stefan Wolpe, Paul Dessau, Kurt Weill, Ernst Toch, Darius Milhaud; Alexander von Zemlinsky: String Quartet No.3, op.19
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Concert review, ★★★★½, Moser String Quartet (Kanon Miyashita, Patricia Muro Francia, Ariadna Bataller Calatayud, Lea Galasso) @ Wasserkirche, Zurich, 2022-12-18 — Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, op.76/2, “Fifths”; Dieter Ammann (*1962): String Quartet No.2, “Distanzenquartett” (2009); Bartók: String Quartet No.1 in A minor, op.7, Sz.40 / BB 52
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Concert review, ★★★★, Aris Quartett (Anna Katharina Wildermuth, Noémi Zipperling, Caspar Vinzens, Lukas Sieber) @ Kirche St.Peter, Zurich, 2022-05-15 (Neue Konzertreihe Zürich / Hochuli Konzert AG) — Haydn: String Quartet in B♭ major, op.76/4, “Sunrise”; Schubert: String Quartet No.15 in G major, D.887 (op.161). Encore by Dvořák: No.11 from “Cypresses” (Cypřiše) for String Quartet, B.152
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Concert review, ★★★★★, Mizmorim Chamber Music Festival / “Musica notturna”: Gringolts Quartet, Christophe Coin, Alice Burla @ Gare du Nord, Basel, 2022-01-22 — Boccherini: String Quintet in C major, op.30/6, G.324, “La musica notturna delle strade di Madrid”; Milhaud: 4 Visages for viola and piano, op.238; Ravel: String Quartet in F major, M.35
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