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Trio Oreade — Mozart: Divertimento in E♭ major K.563

CD Review (★★★): Trio Oreade (Yukiko Ishibashi, violin; Ursula Sarnthein, viola; Christine Hu, cello)—Mozart, the works for String Trio: Divertimento for String Trio in E♭ major, K.563; and String Trio Movement in G major, K.562e / Anh.66 (Fragment).

Oxana Shevchenko — Stravinsky: Complete Works for Solo Piano

Media Review — Oxana Shevchenko playing Stravinsky: Complete Works for Solo Piano (2 CDs, ★★★★½): Scherzo (1902), Sonata in F♯ minor (1904), 4 Études for piano, op.7 (1908), The Firebird (arr. Agosti), Trois Mouvements de Pétrouchka, Souvenir d’une marche boche, Valse pour les enfants, Ragtime, Piano-Rag-Music, Fragment des Symphonies pour instruments à vent à la mémoire de Claude Achille Debussy, Les cinq doigts, Sonate (1924), Serenade in A, Tango, Circus Polka for a young elephant

Arthur Lourié: Piano Works — Christian Erny

Christian Erny plays piano works by Arthur-Vincent Lourié (1892 – 1966): Cinq Préludes fragiles op.1, Deux Estampes op.2, Valse, Intermezzo, Petite Suite en fa, Gigue, Nocturne, Lullaby. CD, received for reviewing.

Franz Danzi: Concerti — Arghamanyan, Pascal, Griffiths / Munich Chamber Orchestra

Franz Danzi: Overture, P.228; Piano Concerto in E♭ major, op.4, P.229; Cello Concerto in E minor, P.243 — Nareh Arghmanyan, piano; Aurélien Pascal, cello; Howard Griffiths / Münchener Kammerorchester (Munich Chamber Orchestra). CD, received for reviewing.

Verdi: Messa da Requiem — Spuck & Luisi / Philharmonia Zurich

Giuseppe Verdi: Messa da Requiem — A Ballet Production from the Zurich Opera, 2016-12, recorded live for & by the Swiss Television, SRF. Artists: Fabio Luisi, Philharmonia Zürich, Ballett Zürich; choreography: Christian Spuck; Choir of the Zurich Opera; Krassimira Stoyanova, soprano; Veronica Simeoni, mezzo-soprano; Francesco Meli, tenor; Georg Zeppenfeld, bass. DVD, received for reviewing.

Mahler: Symphony No.8 — Riccardo Chailly / LFO

Gustav Mahler, Symphony No.8 in E♭ major (“Symphony of a Thousand”) — Riccardo Chailly, Lucerne Festival Orchestra (Lucerne Festival 2016, Opening Concert in the KKL); with Ricarda Merbeth, Juliane Banse, Anna Lucia Richter, Sara Mingardo, Mihoko Fujimura, Andreas Schager, Peter Mattei, Samuel Youn, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Latvian Radio Choir, Orfeón Donostiarra, Tölzer Knabenchor. Blu-ray disk, received for reviewing.

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