All just my personal opinion
Concert review, ★★★★★, Kitgut Quartet @ St.Peter, Zurich, 2020-10-04 — The evolution of the string quartet from consort music by Blow, Purcell, Locke, up to Haydn’s Quartet in D major, op.71/2 — in a fascinating, truly historically informed performance
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Blog post #465 — Concert review, ★★½, Piano Recital Alice di Piazza @ Wetzikon ZH, 2019-02-02 (Klavierissimo Festival 2019) — Brahms: Chorale Preludes op.122/ 6 & 10; Schumann: Two Romances from op.28; Brahms: 7 Fantasias, op.116
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Concert Review, piano recital Piotr Anderszewski @ Tonhalle Zurich, 2017-05-30 — Schumann: Variations in E♭ major, WoO 24, “Ghost Variations” — Mozart: Fantasia in C minor, K.475/Piano Sonata No.14 in C minor, K.457 — Leoš Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book II — Chopin: Three Mazurki, op.59; Polonaise No.7 in A♭ major “Polonaise-fantaisie”, op.61
Concert review: Christoph Croisé (cello), Oliver Schnyder & Meta Fajdiga (piano) in Arosa/CH, 2016-02-25 — Schubert, Piano Sonata in C minor D.958 & Fantasia in F minor, D.940; Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata in G minor, op.19
Igor Levit was born 1987 in Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky); in 1995 his family moved to Germany; he grew up with the piano (his mother is a pianist whose teacher had once studied with Heinrich Neuhaus), did his musical studies at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover and finished with the best notes ever given by that institution. Aged 17, he was the youngest participant at the International Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv, in 2005; he won the second prize, plus several special awards, such as the special prize for chamber music, and the audience award…