BSO — 2025/10/18

Something new and something old. Herre's what WCRB says: https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2025-09-10/john-adamss-violin-concerto-with-bso-artist-in-residence-augustin-hadelich 

Saturday, October 18, 2025
8:00 PM

In the first of a season of collaborations with the Boston Symphony, Augustin Hadelich is the soloist in one of the most dynamic and fascinating concertos of our time. Afterwards, Andris Nelsons conducts Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, a meditation on fate and a richly melodic cornerstone of the symphonic repertoire.

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violin

John ADAMS Violin Concerto
Pyotr TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5

In a conversation with CRB's Brian McCreath, Augustin Hadelich describes the challenges of music by John Adams, as well as the rewards of the composer's Violin Concerto, and he looks ahead to the other concerto he'll perform with the BSO this season, Thomas Adès's Concentric Paths. To listen, use the player above, and read the transcript below.

I found the interview interesting to read, giving the performer's reaction to the music he'll be playing.

 Now for the BSO's performance detail page: https://www.bso.org/events/oct-16-18-adams-tchaikovsky?performance=2025-10-18-20%3A00

Andris Nelsons, conductor Augustin Hadelich, violin John ADAMS Violin Concerto       intermission TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5  

The BSO’s 2025-26 artist in residence Augustin Hadelich brings his passion and flair to John Adams’ Violin Concerto. Composed in 1993, the piece is a rhythmically vital and harmonically rich concerto that won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 is a meditation on fate; though Tchaikovsky himself wavered in his assessment of the work, its passionate themes, rich orchestral colors, and triumphant finale have cemented it as a cornerstone of the symphonic repertoire.

By clicking on the name of a performer, you can get their bio, and clicking on the name of a piece gets a link to the program note. (Why do they have to make it so complicated?) Or you can go the the full webpage and click away. The note on the Adams might be especially useful as preparation.

I can't find a review in the Globe, but here's an interesting one in the Intelligencer. https://www.classical-scene.com/2025/10/18/horizontally-symphony/ The reviewer liked the show.

It will be interesting to find out what the Adams concerto acrually turns out to be.