BSO/Classical New England — 2018/10/06

This evening's concert is unusual in that it was originally performed on the afternoon of May 4, 2018, which was a Friday, but not at any other time that week. There was an all-Brahms program on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. So this concert wasn't broadcast when it was given, and I haven't heard it in person either., meaning that I haven't previously posted about it. Here's the description from the BSO's performance detail page:

BSO Assistant Conductor Moritz Gnann leads this single Friday-afternoon program, which features principal oboe John Ferrillo in the Oboe Concerto of Alessandro Marcello, a slightly older contemporary of his fellow Venetian Antonio Vivaldi. Opening the program is a group of canzonas by the earlier Venetian composer Giovanni Gabrieli, who was active in the late 1500s and early 1600s. Completing the first half of this program is a wind-ensemble arrangement of numbers from Rossini's delightful and familiar 19th-century comic opera The Barber of Seville. Mozart's G minor symphony, No. 40, is among the most enduringly popular of all thecomposer's works.

(Some emphasis added.)

The Globe seems not to have reviewed it, but the Boston Musical Intelligencer has this review by its publisher. Basically, he enjoyed the first half, but was disappointed in the second. (So I won't mind too much when my brother's weekly call from Japan interrupts my listening.)

Hear it all over WCRB at 8:00 p.m., Boston Time (i.e., EDST).