BSO/Classical New England — 2025/06/21

 This evening WCRB takes us back to August 11, 2024. Here's their description:

Saturday, June 21. 2025
8:00 PM

In an encore broadcast, conductor James Gaffigan makes his Boston Symphony debut in a program that includes arias from Mozart’s Idomeneo and The Marriage of Figaroand Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with soprano Elena Villalón, as well as Anna Clyne’s Sound and Fury. Listen to this concert using the player above.

Boston Symphony Orchestra
James Gaffigan, conductor
Elena Villalón, soprano

Anna CLYNE Sound and Fury
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART “Padre, germani, addio!” from Idomeneo
MOZART “Deh vieni, non tardar” from The Marriage of Figaro
Gustav MAHLER Symphony No. 4

This concert was originally broadcast on August 11, 2024, and is no longer available on demand.

The orchestra's performance detail page has links to performer bios and program notes.

It should be a pleasant evening.

BSO/Classical New England — 2025/06/14

 WCRB treats us to another concert from last summer at Tanglewood. Herewith their description:

Saturday, June 14, 2025
8:00 PM

In an encore broadcast, BSO Assistant Conductor Samy Rachid leads the orchestra for the first time in an all-Russian program that begins with Svetlanov’s emotional “Dawn in the Field,'' followed by Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto, with soloist Midori, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5, a piece celebrating victory through strife.

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Samy Rachid, conductor
Midori, violin

Evgeny SVETLANOV Dawn in the Field
Sergei PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 1
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5

This concert was originally broadcast on August 16, 2024, and is no longer available on demand.

The BSO's performance detail page has just the facts, but it also gives links to the program notes for each piece, which could prove interesting.

Tanglewood

Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA 

Boston Symphony Orchestra 
Samy Rachid, conductor 
Midori, violin

SVETLANOV Dawn in the Field 
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 1
-Intermission-
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5

It should be good listening.

BSO/Classical New England — 2025/06/07

 From Tanglewood 2023:

https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2023-06-08/carmina-burana-with-nelsons-and-the-bso-at-tanglewood

Saturday, June 7, 2025
8:00 PM

In an encore broadcast from the 2023 Tanglewood season, Erin Morley, Reginald Mobley, Will Liverman, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus bring you Orff’s bawdy and intimate Carmina Burana.

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Erin Morley, soprano
Reginald Mobley, countertenor
Will Liverman, baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus,
James Burton, conductor
Boston Children’s Chorus,
Emily Howe, conductor
Kenneth Griffith, music director

Ludwing Van BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 3
Carl ORFF Carmina burana

This concert was originally broadcast on July 16th, 2023 and is no longer available on demand.

and

https://www.bso.org/events/bso-carmina-burana?performance=2023-07-16-14:30 

Tanglewood

Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA 

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Erin Morley, soprano
Reginald Mobley, countertenor
Will Liverman, baritone
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
 James Burton, conductor
Boston Children’s Chorus
 Emily Howe, conductor
 Kenneth Griffith, music director

BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 3
ORFF Carmina burana

Sung in Latin with English supertitles

The link to the program note for the Beethoven still works, but not the one for the Orff. Unfortuately this means that unless you can find the texts somewhere else, you won't know exactly what they're singing about, although you'll hear the music.

The Beethoven is a staple of the repertoire, and deservedly so. I personally don't care much for the Orff piece, but clearly there are enough who do like it that it still gets played.