Jessica Horsley / Basel Sinfonietta — Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, 2021-06-07

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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Lin Liao, Basel Sinfonietta — Stadtcasino Basel, 2021-03-14

Concert review, ★★★★½, Lin Liao, Basel Sinfonietta @ Stadtcasino, Basel, 2021-03-14 — Xenakis: ST/48-1,240162 (1962); Rebecca Saunders (*1967): “Traces” for orchestra (2006/2009); Jesper Nordin (*1971): “Wave” for conductor and orchestra (2021, world premiere); Magnus Lindberg (*1958): “Marea” for orchestra (1989) — a live streaming performance without physical audience.
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Hodges, Volkov / Basel Sinfonietta — Don Bosco, Basel, 2021-01-24

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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Baldur Brönnimann / Basel Sinfonietta — Münchenstein, 2020-11-22

Concert review, ★★★★½, Baldur Brönnimann / Basel Sinfonietta @ Kuspo Münchenstein BL, 2020-11-22 (ghost concert) — Georg Friedrich Haas (*1953): Joshua Tree (2020); Gérard Grisey (1946 – 1998): IV. Modulations from “Les espaces acoustiques” (1974 – 1985); Elliott Carter (1908 – 2012): Variations for Orchestra (1954/55)
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Peter Rundel / Basel Sinfonietta — Musical Theater Basel, 2020-02-02

Concert review, ★★★★½, Peter Rundel / Basel Sinfonietta @ Musical Theater Basel, 2020-02-02 — Heinz Holliger: Two Liszt Transcriptions (1986), (S)irató (1992); Klaus Huber: Tenebrae (1966/1967); Steffen Wick: Autobiography (2017, Swiss premiere);
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