Here's the scoop on this evening's concert, as given by WCRB:
Tonight at 8pm, in an encore broadcast, Juanjo Mena conducts Mendelssohn's gracefully lyrical Violin Concerto with soloist Julian Rachlin and the hyper-charged brass fanfares of Janáček's Sinfonietta.
Juanjo Mena, conductor
Julian Rachlin, violinHAYDN Symphony No. 44, Trauer
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
JANÁČEK Suite from The Cunning Little Vixen
JANÁČEK SinfoniettaEncore broadcast from February 2, 2019
Hear a preview of the concert with Juanjo Mena in the audio player above.
TRANSCRIPT:
As indicated, if you go to their page, you can hear or read the interview, or do both.
Here's a somewhat fuller description from the orchestra's performance detail page:
The popular Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena collaborates with Lithuanian violinist Julian Rachlin in Mendelssohn's evergreen Violin Concerto, among the most charming works in the standard repertoire. Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 44, Trauer ("Mourning"), is one of the composer's most serious and closely worked symphonies, written during a period of experimentation that saw the composer rapidly expanding the potential of the genre. Closing the program are two works from the 1920s by the great Czech composer Leoš Janáček: a suite of music from his folk-tale opera The Cunning Little Vixen and his brass-dominated Sinfonietta, both of which feature the pungent influence of the Czech musical tradition.
The usual links are available there, for additional background if you want it.I didn't post anything about it at the time. Of course the Haydn and Mendelssohn are okay for most ears. Janáček is more advanced, but I find it tolerable — the music seems to be approaching standard repertoire status, but I won't promise you'll like it.
Apart from some unhappiness with parts of the Mendelssohn, the Globe review was favorable. The one in the Boston Musical Intelligencer was highly favorable about everything, including the Mendelssohn.
So it's probably worth listening to.
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