BSO/Classical New England — 2020/03/21

The BSO has unsurprisingly cancelled the rest of their season, and WCRB has decided to give us BSO concerts six nights a week, beginning on Monday, March 23.. (They have other programming on Sunday evenings, which you might like to check out.) They will be presenting encore broadcasts of concerts conducted by Music Director Andris Nelsons. There's a link on their homepage. While this evening's concert is not listed as part of the series, it is de facto as they present the concert of March 31, 2014.

I posted about it at the time. The performance detail page has this description:

Andris Nelsons leads the American premiere of Partita, a new work co-commissioned by the BSO and the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig from esteemed German composer Jörg Widmann, whose powerful Trauermarschfor piano and orchestra was performed by Maestro Nelsons and the BSO with Yefim Bronfman in the fall of 2016. To conclude this program, cellist Yo-Yo Ma and BSO principal violist Steven Ansell are spotlighted in Richard Strauss's picaresque tour-de-force Don Quixote, a tone poem whose episodes illustrate scenes from Cervantes' famous novel. Opening these concerts is Mozart's brief, rarely performed Symphony No. 23, written in 1773 when he was just seventeen.

(Some emphasis added.)

The links to the reviews in the Boston Globe and the Boston Musical Intelligencer still work. On WCRB's page about the concert there are links to an audio interview of Yo-Yo Ma and Brian McCreath, and a video of Ma and Andris Nelsons talking about "Don Quixote."

You can hear it over WCRB this evening at 8:00, Boston Time. Enjoy!