BSO — 2019/01/05

This week the Boston Symphony resumes its (resume their, if you're British) subscription series at Symphony Hall. There are apparently no program notes available on the program detail page, except for the Dvořák symphony, but it does have some of the usual links as well as the following description of the concert:

Returning to Symphony Hall for the first time since her tenure as BSO assistant conductor, Korean-born Shiyeon Sung leads a program juxtaposing music of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel and her brother Felix, surely one of the most brilliant sibling pairs in music history. Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel's Overture in C, her only extant work for orchestra alone (though she wrote several works for chorus with orchestra), is an elegant, ten-minute piece dating from 1830. Begun in the same year, her brother [Felix Mendelssohn]'s Piano Concerto No. 1 has a turbulent, Romantic energy; Argentinian pianist Ingrid Fliter is soloist, making her subscription series debut. One of the great 19th-century symphonies, Dvořák's by turns bucolic and thrilling Eighth was composed in 1889 and is arguably his most individual symphony, a departure from the Brahms-influenced Germanic style of his Symphony No. 7.

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The Globe reviewer generally liked it apart from some of the playing in the overture. The Musical Intelligencer's reviewer wasn't satisfied with the Hensel and Mendelssohn performances but really liked the Dvořák.

You can see what you think if you listen to WCRB tonight at 8:00, Boston time, or for the rebroadcast/stream on January 13, also at 8:00. And do't foget to check out the website to see what-all else is available there.