BSO/Classical New England — 2020/04/11

I'm pleased that WCRB is recognizing Good Friday and Easter in their Boston Symphony programming. Last evening, Good Friday, they gave the concert of March 2, 2019. It was a performance of the massive "Stabat Mater" by Antonin Dvořák (preceded by "Nimrod" from Elgar's Enigma Variations, in memory of André Previn, who had died on Thursday). This evening they will give us"Lux æterna" by Maija Einfelde and Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony (Symphony No. 2) originally performed on October 27, 2018.

The BSO performance detail page gives the following detail about the performance, along with the usual links:

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.

(Some emphasis added.)

I posted about it at the time and noted that the Intelligencer liked the performance on Thursday but the Globe didn't. I hadn't heard it, so I'm expressing no opinion. This time around, I may be watching the Easter Vigil from the cathedral in Boston.* If so, I won't hear the concert, but if you're free at 8:00 EDST, you might find it worthwhile. As always, it's on WCRB.

*Then again, I may watch the Vatican at 3:00 and be free for the concert until my brother calls from Japan at 9:00.