All just my personal opinion
The first part of this evening was devoted to Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, op.30 — a well-respected benchmark among pianists of the top league. Lise de la Salle played this concerto eloquently, with compassion — she visibly lived with the music, also in the orchestral parts: her playing is fluent, competent, aimed at a full, rounded sound…
This was the third Philharmonic Concert of the season given by Philharmonia Zürich, the orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, conducted by the young Cornelius Meister (*1980), who studied and graduated in Hannover and Salzburg, and since has held positions in Erfurt, Hannover, Heidelberg, and finally with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is also pursuing a career as guest conductor, which in 2012 also took him to the Zurich Opera, where he conducted Richard Strauss’ Salome…
Concert review, ★★★★½, Lev Sivkov, Alexander Boldachev @ Alte Kantonsschule, Zurich, 2024-04-13 (Musik an ETHZ und UZH) — Vivaldi: Concerto in F minor, op.8/4, RV 297, “L’inverno” from “Le quattro stagioni” (arr. for harp); Cassadó: Suite for Cello Solo; Schubert: Sonata for arpeggione & piano in A minor, D.821, arranged for cello & harp
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Concert review, ★★★★, Trio Amani (Marina Yakovleva, Lev Sivkov, Kateryna Tereshchenko) @ Zurich, 2020-10-24 — Beethoven Piano Trio No.1 in E♭ major, op.1/1; Rachmaninoff: Trio élégiaque No.1 in G minor; Arensky: Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, op.32
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Concert review, ★★★★½, Lev Sivkov — Cello Recital @ Zurich, 2020-01-21 — Works for cello solo; Reger: Suite No.1; Berio: Les mots sont allés… — “recitativo” for Cello (1978); Britten: Suite No.2, op.80; Ibert: “Ghirlarzana” quasi adagio; Bach: Suite No.3 in C major, BWV 1009;
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Concert review, ★★★★, Francesco Piemontesi, Juanjo Mena / Lucerne Symphony Orchestra @ KKL, Lucerne, 2019-11-13 — Haydn: Symphony No.88 in G major; Liszt: Piano Concerto No.2 in A major, S.125; Bartók: Divertimento, Sz.113 / BB 118; Kodály: Variations on a Hungarian folk song
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