BSO/Classical New England — 2021/01/16

 This evening's concert over WCRB continues the series from 2016. WCRB says:

Saturday at 8pm, in a 2016 Boston Symphony Orchestra concert, violinist Alina Ibragimova is the soloist in Haydn's Violin Concerto No. 1 and Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Concerto funèbre, and Vladimir Jurowski conducts symphonies by Haydn and Beethoven.

Saturday, January 23, 2021
8:00 PM

Vladimir Jurowski, conductor
Alina Ibragimova, violin

HAYDN Symphony No. 26, Lamentatione
HARTMANN Concerto funebre, for violin and strings
HAYDN Violin Concerto No. 1
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2

Recorded on Feb. 20, 2016, at Symphony Hall in Boston

This concert is no longer available on-demand.

Vladimir Jurowski previews the concert and reveals hidden musical links among the pieces on the program

As suggested, the page has a link to an interview with the conductor. There is also one with the violin soloist. I wrote about it at the time as follows:

The BSO's program detail page for this week's concerts has the following description:

In a concert of distinctly opposed moods, Russian conductor Vladimir Jurowski leads two rarely heard works of Haydn's. His three-movement Symphony No. 26, Lamentatione, takes its nickname from its use of a Gregorian chant melody linked to the Lamentations of Jeremiah. Poised between the Baroque and Classical eras, Haydn's Violin Concerto No. 1was written early in Haydn's service to the Esterházys. Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova, in her BSO debut, plays this and the important German composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Concerto funebre, the composer's 1939 meditation on the approach of war [extensively revised in 1959, per the program notes]. Concluding the concert is Beethoven's high-spirited Symphony No. 2.

(Some emphasis added.)

The actual order of performance is [Haydn Symphony, Hartmann; Haydn Concerto, Beethoven].

The Globe's brief review is favorable — somewhat more so of the conductor than of the soloist. The more extensive and insightful Boston Musical Intelligencer review (of the Friday matinee) is also very favorable, but not without minor criticisms. On Thursday, I enjoyed the concert. I thought the violinist played very well, as did the orchestra. I'm not a musicologist, but as an amateur listener, I found no fault. The Haydn was genial; the Hartmann was serious, but not unpleasant to hear; and the Beethoven was full of good cheer. My only complaint is that the audience should have given longer ovations. I was happy to see a couple of younger players getting first chair duties. Wesley Collins, visible behind the conductor in the Globe photo, was first chair viola in all four pieces; and Clint Foreman was first chair flute in the Beethoven, which was the only piece with flutes in it, and handled his solos flawlessly to my ears.

So by all means, listen in on Saturday over WCRB radio or webstream at 8:00 p.m. […]

And, as you know, the performance detail page is no longer available on the BSO website. Nevertheless, the concert is well worth hearing.