BSO/Classical New England — 2021/05/15

 WCRB gives us another rebroadcast of a concert without a soloist:

Saturday at 8pm, in an encore broadcast of opening night 2017, Music Director Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Haydn's "Drumroll" Symphony and the colossal Symphony No. 1 by Mahler.

Saturday, May 15, 2021
8:00 PM

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor

HAYDN Symphony No. 103, Drumroll
MAHLER Symphony No. 1, Titan

Encore broadcast from Saturday, September 23, 2017

Here's what I wrote back then:

We read in the BSO [performance] detail page:

Franz Joseph Haydn and Gustav Mahler defined the genre of the symphony during their respective eras- Haydn as one of its originators in the late 18th-century Classical era, and Mahler as revitalizer and innovator at the end of the Romantic era. Haydn's Drumroll Symphony-not performed by the BSO since 1995-was the next-to-last symphony he wrote, in the first half of the 1790s. Written nearly 100 years later, the first of Mahler's nine symphonies employs folk-music references and a conventional four-movement form that have their foundations in Haydn's time. Its expanded scope and instrumentation are evidence of the genre's 19th-century transformation as well as Mahler's own stretching of the form.

(Some emphasis added.)

As in prior seasons, the [performance] detail page also has links to performer bios (Click on the thumbnail photo.), program notes, audio previews, and a video podcast.

Also as in prior seasons, WCRB will stream and broadcast the concert, beginning at 8:00 p.m., Boston Time (EDT). Their homepage has links to information about many other offerings on the station. […]
Both symphonies are staples of the orchestral repertoire, so the program should be enjoyable listening (withe the Haydn somewhat more to my taste).

Enjoy.

Since the original broadcast was opening night of the season, there were no reviews when I previewed the show. Subsequently, this one was published in the Boston Musical Intelligencer — noting several aspects of the performance which the reviewer found unsatisfying. The Globe reviewer, on the other hand, was pleased.

It should be enjoyable.