Another "blast from the past." WCRB has the basics on their page:
Saturday, June 17, 2023
8:00 PMYo-Yo Ma returns to the Boston Symphony’s summer home as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, and Cristian Măcelaru conducts works by Debussy and Ensecu, as well as Anna Clyne’s “Masquerade.”
Cristian Măcelaru, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, celloAnna CLYNE Masquerade
Edward ELGAR Cello Concerto
Claude DEBUSSY La Mer
George ENESCU Romanian Rhapsody No. 1This concert was originally broadcast on August 14, 2022 and is no longer available on demand.
For more details, check the BSO perforrmance detail page:
The Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Concert
Romanian conductor Cristian Măcelaru, a 2010 Tanglewood Music Center Fellow, makes his BSO debut. Masquerade, by the U.S.-based English composer Anna Clyne, evokes the unique milieu of mid-18th-century London promenade concerts; this is the BSO’s first performance of Clyne’s music. Tanglewood favorite Yo-Yo Ma joins for Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto, one of the English composer’s final works, in part a profoundly lyrical meditation on a world in turmoil after the devastation of World War I. Claude Debussy’s La Mer—a work given its American premiere by the BSO in 1907—is virtually a three-movement symphony miraculously depicting in music the changing states of the sea and sun over the course of a day. Closing the concert is Romanian composer Georges Enescu, one of the 20th-century’s greatest musicians. His familiar Romanian Rhapsody No. 1, based on his country’s folk music, is a delightful and finely wrought staple of Pops orchestras.
It's all fairly familiar except for the first piece. You can read about it in the program notes. The Globe review of the weekend has almost nothing to say about the Clyne piece, but is quite favorable to the concert.
It shoud lbe an enjoyable evening.
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