WCRB gives us something different this evening: a retrospective on the Ozawa years through recordings and interviews. Here's the program:
Saturday, July 1, 2023
8:00 PMSeiji Ozawa's 29 years as Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is the longest tenure for any conductor in that position in BSO history. He also led more BSO recordings of individual works than any other conductor. In this program, four members of the orchestra - Principal Horn Richard Sebring, violinists Tatiana Dimitriades and Bonnie Bewick, and Associate Principal Double Bass Lawrence Wolfe - along with BSO Vice President for Artistic Planning Tony Fogg, tell the stories of the most memorable recordings they made with Ozawa.
On the program:
MAHLER - Symphony No. 3, movements IV and V
with soprano Jessye Norman, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and the American BoychoirMAHLER - Symphony No. 4, movements III and IV
with soprano Kiri Te KanawaRAVEL - Alborada del Gracioso
BARTÓK - Violin Concerto No. 2, movement III
with violinist Anne-Sophie MutterDUTILLEUX - The Shadows of Time
BERLIOZ - The Damnation of Faust, Part 1
with tenor Stuart Burrows and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Since this is not a (re)broadcast of a live concert, there is no performancse detail page nor review to link. These are not pieces of music that are on my personal favorites list, although Mahler is pretty good and Berlioz usually gives us something worth hearing. I just don't remember anything specific from these pieces. The reminiscences could be very interesting, so on balance, I think this should be a good show.
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