CD — Anastasia Kobekina Performing Works by Vladimir Kobekin
CD review, Cellist Anastasia Kobekina performing works by and with her father, Vladimir Kobekin (cello solo, cello & piano)
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CD review, Cellist Anastasia Kobekina performing works by and with her father, Vladimir Kobekin (cello solo, cello & piano)
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Concert review, ★★★★, Gavriel Lipkind, Adrija Čepaitė / YES Orchestra @ Musical Theater Basel, 2019-09-26 — Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, op.129; Beethoven: Symphony No.4 in B♭ major, op.60
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Concert review, ★★★★, Stephen Waarts, Juan Pérez Floristán, Howard Griffiths / Orpheum Supporters Orchestra @ Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, 2019-09-15 — Ravel: Pavane; Chausson: Poème; Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Shostakovich: Gadfly Suite
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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.
Listening diary post, covering recordings of recorder concerti by Antonio Vivaldi (including some related concerti for violin), played by Maurice Steger / Diego Fasolis / I Barocchisti (2 CDs, 2000 & 2014), Conrad Steinmann / Helmut Müller-Brühl / Cappella Clementina (1978), and by Giuliano Carmignola (violin) / Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca (1999) — 18 different concerti total, including 2 versions of “La Notte”, and 2 versions of “Il gardellino”.
(…) The last position in the program (after the intermission) was Mozart’s Symphony No.40 in G minor, K.550, in its first version (without clarinets), preceded by some explanations (in English) by the conductor. Sir Roger Norrington first alluded to numeric relations between the two symphonies (No.4 vs. No.40 — second vs. second-to-last symphony), then referred to the fact that K.550 is overused, known too well even, and played in warehouses and escalators…