All just my personal opinion
Blog post #486 — Concert review, ★★★★, Florian Helgath, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Orchestra La Scintilla, Eugénie Warnier, Marie Henriette Reinhold, Florian Feth (evangelist), Angelo Pollak (arias), Ludwig Mittelhammer (Jesus), Aleksander Nohr (arias) @ Kirche St.Jakob, Zurich, 2019-04-17 — Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750): St.John Passion, BWV 245
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Blog post #480 — Concert review, ★★★★, Joachim Krause, Basel Sinfonietta, Basler Bach-Chor, Gudrun Sidonie Otto, Sofia Pavone, Dino Lüthy, Örs Kisfaludy @ Martinskirche, Basel, 2019-03-24 — Arthur Honegger (1892 – 1955): Symphonic Psalm “Le Roi David”, H.37 (1921/1923)
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Concert review, Florian Helgath, Orchestra La Scintilla, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Malin Hartelius, Christina Daletska, Benjamin Bruns, Ludwig Mittelhammer @ Kirche St.Jakob, Zurich, 2018-12-07 — Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, Cantatas 1 – 3; Arvo Pärt: Magnificat (1989); Praetorius / Jan Sandström: “Es ist ein Ros entsprungen” (1990)
Concert review, Louis Schwizgebel, Zsolt Hamar, Hungarian National Philharmonic @ KKL, Lucerne, 2018-11-28 — Veress: Threnos in memoriam Béla Bartók (1945); Liszt: Piano Concerto No.1 in E♭ major, S.124; Liszt: A Faust Symphony in three character pictures, S.108; pre-concert / Lied recital with Alexandre Beuchat / Marija Bokor (Liszt, Schubert, Wagner)
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (?): Septem verba a Christo in cruce moriente prolata — René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Sophie Karthäuser, Christophe Dumaux, Julien Behr, Konstantin Wolff
So much depends on having a good music teacher! I’m not competent to argue whether all of us are born with the talent to become musicians, or at least to love music and to play an instrument well, or whether some or even most of it is a matter of one’s genes, or maybe the consequence of influences / experiences at a very early (maybe even pre-natal) stage — however, for sure, a bad teacher can ruin a lot in one’s musical life! …