BSO — 2025/02/08

 This week the BSO is presenting a couple of very familiar works (to me at ;east) and another somewhat less familiar but not unknown. Another way of puttin it is that they're all standard repertory. Hooray! WCRB tells us:

Saturday, February 8, 2025
8:00 PM

French conductor Nathalie Stutzmann makes her Boston Symphony Orchestra debut in a program that begins with Beethoven’s towering Violin Concerto, with soloist Veronika Eberle in her Symphony Hall debut. The concert continues with Ravel's Alborada del gracioso and the suite from Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird, a Russian folk tale of heroism, magic, and renewal that vaulted the composer to the forefront of modern music.

Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor
Veronika Eberle, violin

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto, with cadenzas by Jörg Widmann
Maurice RAVEL Alborada del gracioso
Igor STRAVINSKY The Firebird (1919 suite)

To hear a preview of the program with conductor Nathalie Stutzmann, use the player above.

INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT: 

Brian McCreath I'm Brian McCreath 

We can also see how the orchestra's performance detail page describes it and follow the links there to performer bios and program notes for each piece.

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Symphony Hall, Boston, MA 

Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor
Veronika Eberle, violin

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto (with cadenzas by Jörg WIDMANN)
-Intermission-
RAVEL Alborada del gracioso
STRAVINSKY The Firebird (1919 suite)

French conductor Nathalie Stutzmann makes her BSO conducting debut with German violinist Veronika Eberle in her Symphony Hall debut in Beethoven’s towering Violin Concerto. Ravel's Alborada del gracioso and Stravinsky’s ballet score The Firebird are both marvels of orchestral brilliance from the 1910s: Ravel’s one of his many Spanish-influenced confections and Stravinsky’s a journey through a Russian folk tale of heroism, magic, and renewal that vaulted the composer to the forefront of modern music.

What the dickens!? I can't find the link to the program notes. If you can, congratulations. But what's going on with the BSO? The synopses are identical, so I guess WCRB borrowed the BSO's.

The Globe review is quite favorable and informative. The Intelligencer's reviewer also very much liked what he heard (although maybe a bit disappointed in the encore?)

This should be enjoyable.