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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Merel Quartet & Castalian String Quartet — Wetzikon ZH, 2019-09-28

Concert review, ★★★½, Merel Quartet & Castalian String Quartet @ Wetzikon ZH, 2019-09-28 — Mendelssohn: String Quartet No.1 in E♭ major, op.12; Schumann: String Quartet No.2 in F major, op.41/2; Mendelssohn: String Octet in E♭ major, op.20
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Master & Students #4 — Festival Academy Budapest, 2018-07-28

Review, Festival Academy Budapest, Day 6: Master and Students concert @ Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Solti Hall, Budapest, 2018-07-28, with Natalie Clein, Razvan Popovici, György Lakatos, Natalia Lomeiko, and Yuri Zhislin — Tchaikovsky: String Sextet in D minor, op.70, “Souvenir de Florence”; Mozart: Duo for Violin and Viola in B♭ major, K.424; Haydn: Trio in A major for Flute, Violin, and Bassoon; Mendelssohn: Octet in E♭ major, op.20; Schumann: Piano Quintet in E♭ major, op.44

Master & Students #3 — Festival Academy Budapest, 2018-07-27

Review, Festival Academy Budapest, Day 5: Master and Students concert @ Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Solti Hall, Budapest, 2018-07-27, with Jan-Erik Gustafsson, Philippe Tondre, Zsolt Fejérvári, Yuri Zhislin, and Natalia Lomeiko — Kodály: Duo for Violin and Cello, op.7; Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F major, K.370/368b; Dvořák: String Quintet No.2 in G major, op.77, B.49; Mendelssohn: Octet in E♭ major, op.20; Dvořák: Piano Quintet No.2 in A major, op.81, B.155

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

La Scintilla dei Fiati — Zurich Opera, 2017-10-02

Concert review, Philipp Mahrenholz, La Scintilla dei Fiati @ Zurich Opera, 2017-10-02 — Beethoven: Overture to “Egmont”, op.82 (arr. Starke), Wind Octet, op.103; Jonathan Dove (*1959): “Figures in the Garden” (1991); Mozart: Serenade No.12 in C minor, K.388