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Prix Serdang 2024 for Alexandra Dovgan: Award Ceremony & Prize Winner Recital @ Villa Serdang, Feldbrunnen SO, 2024-06-23 — Rachmaninoff: 3 Movements from Bach’s Partita No.3 for Violin solo in E major, BWV 1006; Schumann: Piano Sonata No.2 in G minor, op.22; Scriabin: Piano Sonata No.2 in G♯ minor, op.19, “Sonate-Fantaisie”
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Concert review, ★★★★★, Piano Recital Konstantin Scherbakov @ Zurich University, Zurich, 2024-05-17 (Musik an ETHZ und UZH) — Mozart: Piano Sonata No.14 in C minor, K.457 — Fantasia in C minor for Piano, K.475 — Piano Sonata No.11 in A major, K.331, “Alla turca”; Liszt: Fantasy on Themes from Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” and “Don Giovanni”, S.697 — Grande fantaisie “Réminiscences de Don Juan”, S.418
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Concert review, ★★★★, Piano Recital Ivan Bašić @ Aula, Alte Kantonsschule, Zurich, 2024-05-11 (Musik an ETHZ und UZH) — Bach: Toccata No.5 BWV 914; Haydn: Piano Sonata No.49 in C♯ minor, Hob.XVI/36; Ravel: Menuet sur le nom de Haydn, M.58 — Jeux d’eau, M.30; Liszt: Années de Pèlerinage, 3me Année: No.4, Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este, S.163/4 — Bagatelle sans tonalité, S.216a — Transcription of Wagner’s Overture to “Tannhäuser”, S.442
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Concert review, ★★★★½, Piano Recital Jaeden Izik-Dzurko @ Zurich University, Zurich, 2024-04-11 (Musik an ETHZ und UZH) — Liszt / Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 / S.462/1; Liszt: Sonata in B minor, S.178; Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No.1 in D minor, op.28
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CD Review — Lina Tur Bonet / Musica Alchemica performing violin sonatas by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644 – 1704): sonatas I, III, V, VI from Sonatae Violino solo 1681, Sonata V, VII from Harmonia artificio-ariosa (1696). In comparison, a (partly) complementary recording by John Holloway (sonatas III, IV, VI, VII from Sonatae Violino solo 1681, unpublished sonatas Nos.81 & 84
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Concert review, ★★★★★, Aleksandr Kliuchko @ Aula der Universität, Zurich, 2023-10-11 (Musik an der ETH und UZH) — Liszt: Études d’exécution transcendante, S.139 (1 – 5, 8, 11, 12); Rachmaninoff: Morceaux de fantaisie, op.3; Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No.2 in B♭ minor, op.36; encores by Tchaikovsky (Nocturne) and Feinberg/Tchaikovsky
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