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Prix Serdang 2024 for Alexandra Dovgan: Award Ceremony & Prize Winner Recital @ Villa Serdang, Feldbrunnen SO, 2024-06-23 — Rachmaninoff: 3 Movements from Bach’s Partita No.3 for Violin solo in E major, BWV 1006; Schumann: Piano Sonata No.2 in G minor, op.22; Scriabin: Piano Sonata No.2 in G♯ minor, op.19, “Sonate-Fantaisie”
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Concert review, ★★★★, Piano Recital Ivan Bašić @ Aula, Alte Kantonsschule, Zurich, 2024-05-11 (Musik an ETHZ und UZH) — Bach: Toccata No.5 BWV 914; Haydn: Piano Sonata No.49 in C♯ minor, Hob.XVI/36; Ravel: Menuet sur le nom de Haydn, M.58 — Jeux d’eau, M.30; Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage, 3me Année: No.4, Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este, S.163/4 — Bagatelle sans tonalité, S.216a — Transcription of Wagner’s Overture to “Tannhäuser”, S.442
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Concert review, ★★★★½, Piano Recital Jaeden Izik-Dzurko @ Zurich University, Zurich, 2024-04-11 (Musik an ETHZ und UZH) — Liszt / Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 / S.462/1; Liszt: Sonata in B minor, S.178; Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No.1 in D minor, op.28
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Concert review, ★★★★, Mikhail Pochekin @ Zurich University, Zurich, 2024-03-22 (Musik an ETHZ und UZH) — Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750): “Sei Solo” — The Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo, BWV 1001 – 1006
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Media review — Bach: Suite No.2 for Cello Solo in D minor, BWV 1008. 24 artists / 26 complete recordings, from historic to modern to HIP: Casals (1936), Fournier (1961), Bylsma (1979), Rostropovich (1991), Bylsma (1992), ter Linden (1996), Paternoster (1998), Wispelwey (1998), Pandolfo (2000, viola da gamba), Isserlis (2005), Queyras (2007), Gaillard (2010), Wispelwey (2012), Enders (2012), Watkin (2013), Demenga (2014), Dumas (2016), Kashkashian (2017, viola), Malov (2018, violoncello da spalla), Bertrand (2019), Teichmanis (2019), Kloeckner (2020), Rignol (2020, viola da gamba), Philippe (2021), de Naverán (2021), Skalka (2020)
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Review (Listening Diary) — Lucile Boulanger performing Solo works for Viola da gamba: 11 Solos by Carl Friedrich Abel (1723 – 1787), as well as the artist’s own transcriptions of solo works by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
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