Kopatchinskaja & Fischer / COE — Tonhalle Zurich, 2016-05-09

Concert Review: Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Thierry Fischer / Chamber Orchestra of Europe @ Tonhalle Zurich, 2016-05-09 — Mieczysław Weinberg: Symphony No.10 in A minor, op.98; Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor, op.63; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.7 in A major, op.92

Isserlis, Egarr / ZKO — Zurich, 2016-02-02

Concert review: Steven Isserlis, Richard Egarr / ZKO at Tonhalle Zurich, 2016-02-02 — Haydn: Symphony No.68 in B♭ major, Cello concerto No.1 in C major; Boccherini: Cello concerto No.3 in G major; Mozart: Symphony No.17 in G major K.129

Schumann: Symphony No.1 in B♭ major, op.38

Schumann, Symphony No.1 in B♭ major, op.38 — comparing 5 recordings: Bernstein / Vienna Philharmonics (1984); Harnoncourt / Chamber Orchestra of Europe (1996); Gardiner / Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (1997); Zinman / Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (2004); Dausgaard / Swedish Chamber Orchestra Örebro (2007)

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, op.61

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, op.61 — comparing recordings with the following artists: Batiashvili (2007), Busch/Busch (1942), Faust/Abbado (2010), Francescatti/Walter (1961), Grumiaux/Galliera (1966), Heifetz/Munch (1955), Huberman/Szell (1934), Jansen/Järvi (2009), Kennedy (2007), Kopatchinskaja/Herreweghe (2009), Kreisler/Blech (1926), Kremer/Harnoncourt (1992), Menuhin/Furtwängler (1947), Milstein/Szell (1964), Mullova/Gardiner (2002), Oistrakh/Gauk (1952), Oistrakh/Cluytens (1959), Stern/Bernstein (1959), Szeryng/Schmidt-Isserstedt (1965), Suk/Konwitschny (1962), Tetzlaff/Zinman (2005), Zehetmair/Brüggen (1997)

Haydn: Works for Cello & Orchestra

Haydn: Cello concertos No.1 C & No.2 D — Maisky (1986), Mørk/Brown (1992), Rostropovich/Brown (1975), Isserlis/Norrington (1996); Haydn: Sinfonia concertante in B♭ major, Hob.I/105 — Antal Doráti (1972), Dennis Russell Davies (2009), Sir Roger Norrington (1996)

D. Scarlatti, F. Schubert (Diary 2012-08-31)

Domenico Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas — recordings with Pieter-Jan Belder and Andreas Staier; Schubert: Masses in A♭ (D.678) and E♭ (D.950) — Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Arnold Schoenberg Choir