Concert: Chiaroscuro Quartet (04/01/2023)

Catching Chiaroscuro Quartet at SF.

Concert: Voices of Music - Metamorphoses (03/30/2023)

Interesting fusion concert of Western early music and Chinese classical music, with dancers. Unfortunately, the performance was marred by bad acoustics of the venue.

Concert: Philharmonia Baroque + Kristian Bezuidenhout (A Glassful of Mozart) (03/29/2023)

 

Great PBO concert featuring guest conductor and fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout.

Concert: Daniel Hope + Zurich Chamber Orchestra (03/26/2023)

Daniel Hope and Zurich Chamber Orchestra, electrified audiences with not one, not two, but three encores.

Johann Sigismund Kusser: Composition de Musique (Musica Aeterna Bratislava)(Les Enchantants)

 

Composition de Musique, 6 French orchestral overtures by Johann Sigismund Kusser (c1660 - c1727), the earliest known published in Germany (1682).

「男子漢大丈夫，在這兒Kusser(哭啥)?!!」

Herold: Piano Concertos (Pondepeyre/van Alphen)(Neuburger/Niquet)

One of the earliest French piano concertos, by Louis-Ferdinand Herold (1791-1833)

「他哪裡強了，其實是Herold(很弱的)！」

Concert: The English Concert - Handel: Solomon (03/05/2023)

Handel's Solomon. English Concert (Harry Bicket), with the inimitable Ann Hallenberg.

Concert: Archetti & Dance Through Time (03/03/2023)

 

Archetti Baroque Strings & Dance Through Time. Baroque dance music with actual dancers.

Concert: Barthold Kuijken (02/18/2023)

 

Maestro Barthold Kuijken, Baroque flautist and true pioneer of the historically informed movement (HIP).

Concert: Voices of Music - Musica Transalpina. 17th century music for 3 violins (02/17/2023)

Another fantastic concert by Voices of Music!

John Adams: Hallelujah Junction + Collected Works

 

Happy birthday John Adams (b. 1947.02.15).

Concert: Van Kuijk String Quartet + Sean Shibe (02/11/2023)

 

Fantastic concert by Van Kuijk String Quartet and Sean Shibe

Concert: Philharmonia Baroque + Steven Isserlis (Old Friends Made New) (02/10/2023)

PBO and Steven Isserlis perform.... Saint-Saens and Brahms ?

2023年聽的第一場音樂會。

Novel: Liszt's Kiss

"Liszt's Kiss", a novel.

Kaspar Foerster: Sacred works (Musica Fiata/La Capella Ducale/Roland Wilson)(Les Traversées Baroques/Étienne Meyer)

Kaspar Foerster (1616.02.28 – 1673.02.02) 350th death anniversary. Sacred works (Musica Fiata/La Capella Ducale/Roland Wilson)(Les Traversées Baroques/Étienne Meyer)

「Förster(負四的)平方是多?」