On Sunday, July 23, BSO Assistant Conductor Ken-David Masur is joined by Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky for Prokofiev's sparkling Piano Concerto No. 3. Mr. Masur opens the afternoon program with Aaron Jay Kernis's airy and moving Musica Celestis ("Heavenly Music"), written by the Grawemeyer Award-winning composer in 2000. Closing the concert is Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2, Little Russian.(Some emphasis added.)
More information about each piece (program notes, brief audio previews) is available at the program detail page.
Of course, when I posted about this concert beforehand, no reviews existed. But afterwards, this very descriptive, and favorable, one appeared in the Boston Musical Intelligencer. There does not seem to have been a Boston Globe review of the concert, but the BMInt one will give a very good preview, pointing out several things to look for. My recollection of the Kernis curtain raiser is that it was not hard to take.
So I recommend tuning in to WCRB at 8:00 p.m., Boston Time, this evening. Also, check out their website for lots of other features about their programming.
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