Saturday, May 25, 2019

BSO/Classical New England — 2019/05/25

The encore broadcast this week is from the third week of last season at Symphony Hall — October 27, 2018. My post at the time includes the synopsis from the orchestra's performance detail page
BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons conducts Mahler's all-embracing ninety-minute Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, along with Chinese soprano Ying Fang and Argentine-born mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink. The fourth movement is a setting of "Urlicht," a poem from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, a source of texts for many of Mahler's songs, and the vast finale includes a setting for chorus and soprano of verses from Klopstock's poem "Resurrection." James Burton will conduct Maija's Einfelde's Lux aeterna, for mixed chorus, the first of two Latvian works performed this year to mark the centenary of the country's independence. 
Please note there will be no intermission for these performances.
as well as links to the usual reviews.
(Emphasis in original.)

Mahler's symphonies from this time are pretty easy to take, so I recommend listening to this one. I don't have a clear recollection of the Einfelde piece that opened the concert, but I vaguely recall it as not bad. As always, tune in to WCRB at 8:00 p.m. this evening and/or Monday, June 3.

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