BSO/Classical New England — 2018/09/08

There is always a hiatus between the Tanglewood season and the Symphony Hall Season of the Boston Symphony. At this point, the orchestra is on a European tour. Meanwhile, WCRB is resuming their custom of rebroadcasting and streaming recent concerts. This month they are giving us concerts from 2017. This week it is the concert of February 11, 2017. I wrote about it at the time. Here's the synopsis from the program detail page:

Andris Nelsons is joined by countertenor Bejun Mehta and the Boston-based Lorelei Ensemble in the BSO's first performances of esteemed English composer George Benjamin's Dream of the Song, commissioned by the BSO for the 75th anniversary of the Tanglewood Music Center. Opening the program is Ravel's colorful orchestral version of his solo piano suite Le Tombeau de Couperin, inspired in part by the French Baroque composer François Couperin. Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, his first masterpiece, is innovative in form, remarkably forward-thinking in its use of the orchestra, and quintessentially Romantic in its depiction of an artist's unrequited love.

(Some emphasis added.)

The Ravel and Berlioz are standards of the repertoire and should be good. I don't recall the Benjamin piece. The program notes give some idea of what to expect, if you don't want to just experience it as something new.

As usual, the show begins at 8:00 p.m., Boston Time.