All just my personal opinion
Media Review (Listening Diary) — Gringolts Quartet and Meta4 performing Mendelssohn Octet op.20 & Enescu String Octet op.7; comparisons with Emerson String Quartet (Mendelssohn), Merel Quartet & Castalian String Quartet (Mendelssohn), and Vilde Frang & Friends (Enescu)
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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, 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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Concert review, ★★★★, Aris Quartett (Anna Katharina Wildermuth, Noémi Zipperling, Caspar Vinzens, Lukas Sieber) @ Kirche St.Peter, Zurich, 2022-05-15 (Neue Konzertreihe Zürich / Hochuli Konzert AG) — Haydn: String Quartet in B♭ major, op.76/4, “Sunrise”; Schubert: String Quartet No.15 in G major, D.887 (op.161). Encore by Dvořák: No.11 from “Cypresses” (Cypřiše) for String Quartet, B.152
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Concert review, ★★★½, Belenus Quartet @ Kirche St.Peter, Zurich, 2021-09-05 — Haydn: String Quartet in E♭ major, op.33/2, “The Joke”; Beethoven: String Quartet No.11 in F minor, op.95, “Serioso”
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Concert review, ★★★★★, Kitgut Quartet @ St.Peter, Zurich, 2020-10-04 — The evolution of the string quartet from consort music by Blow, Purcell, Locke, up to Haydn’s Quartet in D major, op.71/2 — in a fascinating, truly historically informed performance
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