All just my personal opinion
Concert review, ★★★★½, Alexander Ullman @ Lukaskirche, Lucerne, 2019-11-22 (Lucerne Piano Festival, Debut Series) — Franz Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S.173: Nos. 3 (Bénédiction), 7 (Funérailles), 10 (Cantique d’amour); Tchaikovsky: Suite “The Nutcracker”, op.71a (arr. Pletnev); Stravinsky: 3 Movements from “L’oiseau de feu” (arr. Agosti)
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Concert review, ★★★, Danae Dörken @ Lukaskirche, Lucerne, 2019-11-21 (Lucerne Piano Festival, Debut Series) — Debussy: “Images”, Book I; Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances, Sz 56 / BB 68; Poulenc: 8 Nocturnes, FP 56; de Falla: Fire Dance from “El amor brujo”; Chopin: Piano Sonata No.3 in B minor, op.58
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Blog post #461 — Concert review, ★★★, Piano Recital Joseph-Maurice Weder @ ETHZ, Zurich, 2019-01-15 — Jannik Giger (*1985): Accelerated for Piano (2017); Janáček: Piano Sonata “1 X 1905”; Richard Dubugnon (*1968): Sonata V for solo piano, op.82 (2018); Liszt: Sonata in B minor, S.178
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Concert review, Piano Recital, Federico Colli @ Lukaskirche, Lucerne, 2018-11-23 (Lucerne Piano Festival 2018, Debut Recital) — Scarlatti: Sonatas K.1, 9, 19, 32, 39, 69, 450, 492; Bach-Busoni: Chaconne; Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.26 in E♭ major, op.81a, “Les Adieux” — comparing recordings with the following artists: Wilhelm Backhaus (1961), Paul Badura-Skoda (1969), Daniel Barenboim (1984), Ronald Brautigam (2007), Emil Gilels (1984), Friedrich Gulda (1967), Arthur Rubinstein (1940 and 1962), Artur Schnabel (1935)
… while for the past two decades the artist is mostly pictured with an earnest, maybe “Beehovenian” / titanic, somewhat closed facial expression, in the concert (which he presented with a mostly relaxed, yet controlled body language) his face hinted at a wealth of emotions — and his playing struck me as a prime example of the “big Russian Piano School” …