BSO — 2018/04/28

This week the BSO gives us two works both of which received their American premieres from this orchestra: the Brahms Violin Concerto and Symphony No. 5 by Prokofiev. The orchestra's performance detail page has the usual links to background information and the following synopsis:

For his second week of concerts this season, Tugan Sokhiev leads the BSO in Brahms's towering Violin Concerto, with the outstanding, Ukrainian-born, Israeli violin soloist Vadim Gluzman in his BSO winter season debut. Brahms wrote his concerto in 1878 for his lifelong friend Joseph Joachim. Closing the program is Prokofiev's wartime Symphony No. 5, a powerful, searching, and expansive work premiered in January 1945 with the composer conducting.

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You can hear it this evening at 8:00 p.m., Boston Time (EDST) over WCRB, broadcast or streaming on line, with a second transmission at 8:00 p.m. on Monday, May 7. Note the other programming information on their website. I especially recommend the Monteverdi Vespers, which will be part of the 9:00–12:00 "Voices" program on Sunday evening, April 29. If you're unfamiliar with Renaissance music, this will be amazing.

No review of the concert has appeared yet in the Musical Intelligencer. The Globe's review is favorable, but not a rave. I wasn't there on Thursday, so I can't give you my own impressions, but I guess it should be worth hearing.