All just my personal opinion
Concert review, ★★★★, Esther Hoppe, Chiara Enderle Samatanga, Luisa Seraina Splett @ Kirchgemeindehaus, Winterthur-Veltheim, 2023-03-05 — Mel Bonis (1858 – 1937): Piano Trio “Soir-Matin”, op.76 (1907); Dora Pejačević (1885 – 1923): Piano Trio in C major, op.29 (1910); Lili Boulanger (1893 – 1918): Piano Trio “D’un soir triste” (1917/1918); Rebecca Clarke (1886 – 1979): Piano Trio (1921)
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Concert review, ★★★★, BlattWerk Quintett @ Auditorium Maximum, ETHZ, Zurich, 2023-01-31 (Musik an der ETH und UZH) — Rameau: Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin, Suite in A minor, RCT 5; Ravel: “Ma Mère L’Oye”, M.60a; Albéniz: Suite “Iberia” — 2. El Puerto, 1. Evocación, 7. El Albaicín; Wranitzky: Ballet “Das Waldmädchen” — Parthia in F major, IPW 7; Bartók: Suite, op.14, Sz.62, BB 70 — Allegretto (all works arranged for reed quintet)
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Concert review, ★★★★★, Ilya Gringolts, Nicolas Altstaedt, Alexander Lonquich — Hans Huber-Saal, Stadtcasino, Basel, 2023-01-21 (Mizmorim Chamber Music Festival) — Debussy: Piano Trio in G major, L.5; Wolpe: From “Three Time Wedding” for Piano; Kodály: Duo for Violin and Cello, op.7; Bloch: “From Jewish Life” for Cello and Piano; Bloch: “Nigun” from “Baal Shem” for Violin and Piano; Korngold: Piano Trio in D major, op.1
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Concert review, ★★★★½, Gringolts Quartet, Jascha Nemtsov, Tehila Nini Goldstein @ Gare du Nord, Basel, 2023-01-20 (Mizmorim Chamber Music Festival) — Victor Alexandru Colțea (*1986): “Rough Surfaces” for String Quartet (2022); Songs from the postcard project “Songs of the Early Pioneers” (1938-1939), by Stefan Wolpe, Paul Dessau, Kurt Weill, Ernst Toch, Darius Milhaud; Alexander von Zemlinsky: String Quartet No.3, op.19
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Concert review, ★★★★, René Jacobs, Sunhae Im, Coline Dutilleul, Carlo Vistoli, Fabian Strotmann, Yannick Debus, Kammerorchester Basel, Zürcher Sing-Akademie @ Stadtcasino, Basel, 2022-12-20 — D. Scarlatti (1685 – 1757): “Salve Regina” in A major; J.S. Bach (1685 – 1750): Cantata BWV 147, “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben”; J.S. Bach: “Magnificat” in D major, BWV 243
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Concert review, ★★★★½, Moser String Quartet (Kanon Miyashita, Patricia Muro Francia, Ariadna Bataller Calatayud, Lea Galasso) @ Wasserkirche, Zurich, 2022-12-18 — Haydn: String Quartet in D minor, op.76/2, “Fifths”; Dieter Ammann (*1962): String Quartet No.2, “Distanzenquartett” (2009); Bartók: String Quartet No.1 in A minor, op.7, Sz.40 / BB 52
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