Klavierissimo 2023: Alexander Lonquich — Piano Recital, Wetzikon ZH, 2023-02-22

Concert review, ★★★★½, Alexander Lonquich @ KZO, Wetzikon ZH, 2023-02-22 (Klavierissimo Festival 2023 / Top Klassik Zürcher Oberland) — CPE Bach: Free Fantasy in F♯ minor, Wq.67, H.300; Schumann: Arabesque in C major, op.18; Liszt: Bagatelle sans tonalité, S.216a; Schönberg: Klavierstück op.11/2; Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage, 1ère Année, S.160 — 6.Vallée d’Obermann; Busoni: Adaptation of Klavierstück op.11/2 by Arnold Schönberg, BV B 97; Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze op.6; Chopin: Impromptu No.2 (encore)
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BlattWerk Quintett: Reed Arrangements — ETHZ, Zurich, 2023-01-31

Concert review, ★★★★, BlattWerk Quintett @ Auditorium Maximum, ETHZ, Zurich, 2023-01-31 (Musik an der ETH und UZH) — Rameau: Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin, Suite in A minor, RCT 5; Ravel: “Ma Mère L’Oye”, M.60a; Albéniz: Suite “Iberia” — 2. El Puerto, 1. Evocación, 7. El Albaicín; Wranitzky: Ballet “Das Waldmädchen” — Parthia in F major, IPW 7; Bartók: Suite, op.14, Sz.62, BB 70 — Allegretto (all works arranged for reed quintet)
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Ilya Gringolts, Nicolas Altstaedt, Alexander Lonquich — Stadtcasino, Basel, 2023-01-21

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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Duo Goldstein-Nemtsov, Gringolts Quartet — Gare du Nord, Basel, 2023-01-20

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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