All just my personal opinion
Concert review, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet & Gianandrea Noseda / Philharmonia Zurich, Opera Zurich, 2016-02-21 — Respighi, Antiche danze ed arie, Suite #3; Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No.3; Rachmaninoff, Symphony No.3
Concert review: Anna Vinnitskaya, Rafael Payare / Philharmonia Zurich — Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, op.15; Shostakovich: Symphony No.10 in E minor, op.93
The first part of this evening was devoted to Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, op.30 — a well-respected benchmark among pianists of the top league. Lise de la Salle played this concerto eloquently, with compassion — she visibly lived with the music, also in the orchestral parts: her playing is fluent, competent, aimed at a full, rounded sound…
This was the third Philharmonic Concert of the season given by Philharmonia Zürich, the orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, conducted by the young Cornelius Meister (*1980), who studied and graduated in Hannover and Salzburg, and since has held positions in Erfurt, Hannover, Heidelberg, and finally with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is also pursuing a career as guest conductor, which in 2012 also took him to the Zurich Opera, where he conducted Richard Strauss’ Salome…