Festival Academy Budapest 2017, Day 2 — 2017-06-11

Review, Day 2, Festival Academy Budapest, Franz Liszt Music Academy, Budapest — 2017-06-11: Schubert, Fantasy for Violin and Piano in C major, op.159, D.934; Kodály: Song Cycle “Énekszó”, op.1 (excerpts); Ravel: “Ma mère l’oye” for Four Hands; Beethoven: String Quartet No.7 in F major, op.59/1, “Razumovsky”

Hope / ZKO: Mendelssohn, Bach, Weinberg, Beethoven — Zurich, 2016-09-27

Concert review, Season’s Opening with Daniel Hope & the Zurich Chamber Orchestra (ZKO) — Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Octet in E♭ major, op.20; Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041; Mieczysław Weinberg: Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra, op.42; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.2 in D major, op.36

Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Schnittke (Diary 2015-03-27)

Listening Diary — violin sonatas by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, & Schnittke, played by the late Lydia Mordkovich (1944 – 2014). Cross-checking Shostakovich’s op.134 against Gringolts/Vonsattel, and Faust/Melnikov

Arthur Rubinstein’s Recordings

A “statistical overview” over the recordings on the 142 CDs included with the box set “Arthur Rubinstein, The Complete Album Collection”

Beethoven: Great Fugue in B♭ major, op.133

Beethoven: Great Fugue op.133 — comparing recordings with the following ensembles: Alban Berg Quartett (1983), Amadeus Quartet (1962), Artemis Quartet (2011), Busch Chamber Players (1941), Emerson String Quartet (1997), Endellion String Quartet (2006), Guarneri String Quartet (1969), Hagen Quartett (2001), LaSalle Quartet (1972), Leipziger Streichquartett (2006), Melos Quartett (1984), Otto Klemperer/Philharmonia Orchestra (1956), Quartetto Italiano (1969), Quatuor Mosaïques (2016), Takács Quartet (2004)