BSO — 2019/01/19

This post is being published earlier than usual because I'm trekking to Brooklyn on Saturday to join the celebration of my nephew's wedding. I won't be able to listen to the concert until the rebroadcast on the 28th. But since I don't like Brahms' symphonies, it's no great loss for me.

This week's concert should be very enjoyable for almost everybody. As the program detail page tells us:

Herbert Blomstedt, one of the great conductors of the era, returns to the BSO podium for a work central to the repertoire, Brahms's rich, complex Symphony No. 1. Grappling with the influence of Beethoven, Brahms famously delayed completing his First until well into his forties. Bearing several deliberate touches of homage to Beethoven but fully Brahmsian in its spirit and effect, it stands as one of the great works in the symphonic literature. Opening the program is Haydn's charming, genial Cello Concerto No. 1, featuring the brilliant Norwegian cellist Truls Mørk in his first appearances with the BSO since 2007.

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At "press time" there is no review available in the Boston Musical Intelligencer. The Boston Globe reviewer found both pieces well performed. So it seems there will be a fine evening of good old standard repertoire.

Enjoy it over WCRB at 8:00 p.m. Saturday and/or 8:00 p.m Monday January 28.