All just my personal opinion
Zurich, Tonhalle, 2016-06-21: Fazıl Say, Gábor Boldoczki, Willi Zimmermann / Zurich Chamber Orchestra (ZKO) — Handel: Suite in D, HWV 341; Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No.1 C minor, op.35; Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No.11 in F minor, op.95 (arr. Gustav Mahler)
2016-06-16, Concert with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich under Lionel Bringuier — Antonín Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A minor, op.53, with Lisa Batiashvili; Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.1 in D major (a.k.a. “Der Titan”)
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…