This evening, WCRB gives an encore broadcast of the concert given on March 7, 2020. It was last concert they gave in Symphony Hall before the pandemic forced a shutdown; and a couple of days ago the orchestra announced that the entire 2020-21 season has been cancelled. (Previously, they had only cancelled through December 31. So this evening you get to hear the last notes they will have played in Symphony Hall at least until September, 2021. (Maybe they'll be able to do something at Tanglewood next summer.)
And what, you may ask, was this concert, historic in its own way? Unfortunately, I only posted about it after the event, and that very briefly. Here, with appropriate edits, is what I said:
Last Saturday's concert was worth hearing … . 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.
This is how that performance detail page described it (note also the usual links):
Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu and the BSO are joined by the young Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho, 2015 winner of the prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition. In his BSO debut, he performs Prokofiev’s difficult but sparkling Piano Concerto No. 2. Hannu Lintu also leads the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2, probably his most widely popular symphony. The composer’s folk-music-influenced but unique and sophisticated voice is clearly heard in this beloved piece. Lintu also introduces to the BSO repertoire music by the contemporary Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir, whose work has a physical, protean power not unrelated to Sibelius’ music. She earned her doctorate at the University of California, San Diego, and her music has been performed by such ensembles as the New York, Los Angeles, and Berlin philharmonic orchestras.
(All emphasis added.)
The title of the Thorvaldsdottir piece, not given in the above excerpt, is "Metacosmos."
The reviews I mentioned are here for the Globe and here for the Intelligencer.
So definitely, give it a listen if you can this evening at 8:00 over WCRB.
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