BSO/Classical New England — 2020/03/14

My apologies for not posting about the past two weekends' concerts. I was away on February 29 and too busy with preparations for the trip (a weekend retreat) to make a post. A week ago, basically I got distracted with other activities (shopping, meal preparation, meetings) that I forgot to post.

Last Saturday's concert was worth hearing, so I recommend catching the rebroadcast on March 16 at 8:00 p.m. Boston Time (EDST). It included a recent piece by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, a Prokofiev piano concerto, and a Sibelius Symphony. See the performance detail page for more information. There was a favorab;e review in the Intelligencer; the Globe review was mixed.

Now on to the business at hand. The BSO had no concert scheduled this weekend, so WCRB is reaching into their archive to bring us the concert of Saturday, August 18, 2019, at Tanglewood. Here's what they say about it:

Saturday night at 8, in an encore broadcast from the 2019 Tanglewood season, Kirill Gerstein is the soloist in the mighty Piano Concerto No. 2 by Brahms, and François-Xavier Roth leads the BSO in Schumann's Symphony No. 2.

Saturday, March 14, 2020
(encore broadcast Monday, March 23)
8:00 PM

Boston Symphony Orchestra
François-Xavier Roth, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, piano

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2

And here's a link to the performance detail page. It was favorably reviewed in the Globe.

So enjoy.

BTW, the orchestra has cancelled its concerts for the rest of March, so we'll be getting rebroadcasts for (at least) the next two weeks.