Mendelssohn & Enescu: String Octets (Diary 2023-07-24)

Media Review (Listening Diary) — Gringolts Quartet and Meta4 performing Mendelssohn Octet op.20 & Enescu String Octet op.7; comparisons with Emerson String Quartet (Mendelssohn), Merel Quartet & Castalian String Quartet (Mendelssohn), and Vilde Frang & Friends (Enescu)
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Sebastian Bohren, Cristian Măcelaru, Romanian Chamber Orchestra — Brugg, 2022-06-05

Concert review, ★★★★½, Sebastian Bohren, Cristian Măcelaru, Romanian Chamber Orchestra @ Stadtkirche, Brugg, 2022-06-05 — Georges Enescu: Two Intermezzi, op.12; Frank Martin: Polyptyque, for violin and two small string orchestras (1973); Dmitri Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony in C minor, op.110a (arr. Rudolf Barshai)
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Festival Academy Budapest 2018, Day 3 — 2018-07-25

Concert review, Festival Academy Budapest, Concert “The Taste of the Spring is Always New” @ Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Solti Hall, Budapest, 2018-07-25 — Romanian folk music; Enescu: Violin Sonata No.3 in A minor, op.25; Dragony: Lángrózsa Song Cycle (Poems by Melinda Fellegi); Schumann: Piano Quintet in E♭ major, op.44

Vilde Frang & Friends — Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, 2018-03-12

Concert review: Vilde Frang, Tai Murray, Gregory Ahss, Rosanne Philippens, Lawrence Power, Lily Francis, Nicolas Altstaedt, Jan-Erik Gustafsson @ Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, 2018-03-12 — Veress: Trio per archi (1954); Arensky: String Quartet No.2 in A minor, op.35; Enescu: String Octet in C major, op.7

Festival Academy Budapest 2017, Day 4 — 2017-06-13

Review, Day 4 of the Festival Academy Budapest, Pesti Vigadó, Grand Hall, Budapest, 2017-06-13 — Kodály: Sonata for Cello and Piano, op.4 (Andreas Brantelid, Shai Wosner); Kodály: Duo for Violin and Cello, op.7 (Barnabás Kelemen, László Fenyő); Enescu: Octet, op.7 (Vilde Frang, Gábor Homoki, Aleksey Semenenko, Alexandre Dimcevski, Gareth Lubbe, Maxim Rysanov, Andreas Brantelid, Dóra Kokas)