Michaela Unsinn, Garden Recital — Uster, 2020-04-13

“soul food delivery” / pandemic relief by guerillaclassics / Michaela Unsinn in Uster/ZH, 2020-04-13: voice recital in a residential quarter, featuring works by Giacomo Meyerbeer, Robert Schumann, Gabriel Fauré, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Leonard Bernstein, Gaetano Donizetti, and Franz Lehár
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Nehring, Ridout, Zinman / Tonhalle Orchestra — Zurich, 2019-05-24

Blog post #498 — Concert review, ★★★★, Szymon Nehring, Timothy Ridout, David Zinman / Tonhalle Orchestra @ Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, 2019-05-24 (Young Soloists On Stage — Orpheum Foundation) — Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 in C major, op.15; Walton: Viola Concerto (1929); Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story”
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Skride, Nelsons / Boston Symphony Orchestra — Lucerne, 2018-09-12

Concert review, Baiba Skride, Andris Nelsons / Boston Symphony Orchestra @ Lucerne Festival, KKL, Lucerne, 2018-09-12 — Bernstein: Serenade after Plato’s “Symposion”, for solo violin, strings, harp, and percussion; Shostakovich: Symphony No.4 in C minor, op.43

Janke, Simakov, Giraud Ensemble — ETH Zurich, 2018-01-30

Concert review, Andreas Janke, Sergey Simakov / Giraud Ensemble @ Auditorium Maximum, ETH Zurich, 2018-01-30 — Tchaikovsky: Serenade for String Orchestra, op.48; Bernstein: Serenade after Plato’s “Symposion” for solo violin, harp, percussion and strings

Schumann: Symphony No.1 in B♭ major, op.38

Schumann, Symphony No.1 in B♭ major, op.38 — comparing 5 recordings: Bernstein / Vienna Philharmonics (1984); Harnoncourt / Chamber Orchestra of Europe (1996); Gardiner / Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (1997); Zinman / Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (2004); Dausgaard / Swedish Chamber Orchestra Örebro (2007)

Beethoven: Symphony No.7 in A major, op.92

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.7 in A major, op.92 — comparing recordings with the following artists: Bernstein/New York Philharmonic (1964), Bernstein/Vienna Philharmonic (1978), Böhm (1972), Dausgaard (2001), Furtwängler/Vienna Philharmonic (1954), Hogwood (1989), Kleiber/Concertgebouw (1950), Klemperer (1955), Norrington/RSO Stuttgart (2002), Toscanini (1951), Walter/New York Philharmonic (1951), Walter/Columbia Symphony Orchestra (1958), Zinman (1997)