BSO/Classical New England — 2018/06/30

This evening at 8:00, Boston Time, WCRB wont't be giving us a rebroadcast of a concert, but "A Preview of Tanglewood 2018!" Here's how they describe it on their page:

Saturday at 8pm, join WCRB's Brian McCreath for a look at the upcoming 2018 Tanglewood season, celebrating the centennial of Leonard Bernstein, through works by Bernstein himself, Mahler, and many more!

Saturday, June 30, 2018
8:00 PM

BERNSTEIN Dances from On the Town (Boston Pops; John Williams, conductor)
MAHLER Symphony No. 3 in D minor: III. Comodo. Scherzando. Ohne Hast (Boston Symphony Orchestra; Seijii Ozawa, conductor)
BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 16 in F: III. Lento assai e cantante tranquillo, and IV. Grave - Allegro - Grave (Emerson String Quartet)
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2 in D: III. Vivacissimo, and IV. Finale (Boston Symphony Orchestra; Andris Nelsons, conductor)
BERNSTEIN Overture to Candide (Boston Pops; John Williams, conductor)
John WILLIAMS Stargazers, from E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Jessica Zhou, harp; Boston Pops; Keith Lockhart, conductor)
GERSHWIN Piano Concerto in F: III. Allegro agitato (Kirill Gerstein, piano; St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; David Robertson, conductor)
BERNSTEIN from Serenade (after Plato's Symposium): I. Phaedrus: Pausanias (Lento-Allegro marcato), and II. Aristophanes (Allegretto) (Itzhak Perlman, violin; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Seiji Ozawa, conductor)
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 in D minor: IV. Allegro non troppo - Allegro - Piu mosso (Boston Symphony Orchestra; Andris Nelsons, conductor)

Recordings from the Philips, Deutsche Grammophon, BSO Classics, Myrios Classics, and EMI labels

That page also has links to the complete Tanglewood broadcast schedule and additional information about the season at Tanglewood.

I don't know why they think they need to talk up the Tanglewood season, but it could be interesting to hear what they say about it.

BSO/Classical New England — 2018/06/23

This week WCRB is replaying the concert of November 25, 2017. Andris Nelsons conducts Piano Concerto No. 1 by Beethoven and Bruckner's Symphony No. 4. The piano soloist in the Beethoven is Rudolf Buchbinder. My post on that date gives links to the orchestra's performance detail page and reviews of an earlier performance of the program. They should give plenty of background information, if you want it.

I like the Beethoven piano concertos, and Bruckner's symphonies are fairly easy to listen to, even if they tend to be long. So I think you'll like what you hear if you tune your radio or your computer to WCRB this evening at 8:00, EDST.

BSO/Classical New England — 2018/06/16

This week, as we wait for the Tanglewood season to begin, WCRB gives us an encore broadcast from last summer at Tanglewood: the concert of August 12, 2017, consisting of three works, Incantesimi, by Anderson, the Violin Concerto by Brahms with Nikolaj Znaider as soloist, and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, all under the baton of Juanjo Mena. There is a link to the BSO's performance detail page — with its own links to background information — at the post I made at the time. Subsequently, the Boston Musical Intelligencer has given us a review of the concert as part of a review of five concerts over the weekend. Unfortunately, the reviewer was less that thrilled with this concert, but IMO it's worth listening to anyway. The new work by Anderson was okay, as I recall (I was there), and the Brahms is popular and the Beethoven is good music, even if the reviewer wished they had played some of it differently. The Globe doesn't seem to have reviewed it.

You can listen on air or on line at WCRB on Saturday evening at 8:00, Boston Time.

BSO/Classical New England — 2018/06/09

This week, as the hiatus between the Symphony Hall and Tanglewood season continues, WCRB's encore broadcast is of the October 21, 2017, concert. I posted about it at the time. Subsequently a fairly lengthy review appeared in the Boston Musical Intelligencer. The reviewer describes the performance in some detail. So with that and the other material linked in my post, you should have a good idea of what it's all about. It looks like a good chance to have some context for the music. The program begins at the regular time, 8:00 p.m., EDST.

You might also want to check out some of the links on the WCRB website to other programming and features.

BSO/Classical New England — 2018/06/02

This week's encore broadcast is the concert of October 14, 2017. It includes music by Ligeti, Dvořák, and Schumann. Hilary Hahn solos in the Dvořák violin concerto, and Gustavo Gimeno conducts, I posted at the time, and the usual links are there. Suffice it to say that I liked it and the critics raved. So I recommend tuning in to WCRB at 8:00 this evening, EDST. (There are no Monday repeats of these encore broadcasts.)