BSO/Classical New England — 2021/09/18

 This evening's repeat is Brahms and Prokofiev from 2018. WCRB tells the essentials:

Saturday, September 18, 2021
8:00 PM

In a 2018 concert at Symphony Hall, Vadim Gluzman is the soloist in the Violin Concerto by Brahms, and Tugan Sokhiev conducts Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony, Saturday night at 8pm.

Tugan Sokhiev, conductor
Vadim Gluzman, violin

BRAHMS Violin Concerto
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5

Encore broadcast from Saturday, April 28, 2018

Hear Vadim Gluzman previewing Brahms's Violin Concerto in the audio player above.

Tugan Sokhiev previews Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5:

bso180428_sokhiev_edit.mp3

Transcript of Gluzman interview:

You can go to their web page for the links.

Here, lightly edited, is what I wrote back then:

This week the BSO gives us two works both of which received their American premieres from this orchestra: the Brahms Violin Concerto and Symphony No. 5 by Prokofiev. The orchestra's performance detail page  has the usual links to background information and the following synopsis:

For his second week of concerts this season, Tugan Sokhiev leads the BSO in Brahms's towering Violin Concerto, with the outstanding, Ukrainian-born, Israeli violin soloist Vadim Gluzman in his BSO winter season debut. Brahms wrote his concerto in 1878 for his lifelong friend Joseph Joachim. Closing the program is Prokofiev's wartime Symphony No. 5, a powerful, searching, and expansive work premiered in January 1945 with the composer conducting.

(Emphasis added.)

You can hear it this evening at 8:00 p.m., Boston Time (EDST) over WCRB, broadcast or streaming on line….

No review of the concert has appeared yet in the Musical Intelligencer. The Globe's review is favorable, but not a rave. I wasn't there on Thursday, so I can't give you my own impressions, but I guess it should be worth hearing.

After I wrote my preview a review did appear in the Intelligencer, mixed about the Brahms, raving about the Prokofiev.

This music isn't my favorite, so I'll probably keep my Sox on as they play the Orioles, but you definitely could do worse than listen to this concert: Brahms is a staple and the Intelligencer review says the Prokofiev gets a superlative performance.