tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34795705512653688312024-03-16T19:16:04.740-04:00Naturgesetz: Music LoverClassical music — orchestral and opera — has been one of my major interests for most of my life. I'll use this blog to tell about some of the concerts I'm attending and the opportunities to listen to some of them and other good programs on the web.naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.comBlogger758125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-78040539672693007032024-03-16T19:15:00.000-04:002024-03-16T19:15:20.141-04:00BSO — 2024/03/16<p>This week the BSO gives us three pieces for or about children and rounds the evening off with a lively and pleasantpice that's about 100 years old. Here's <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2023-09-25/fairy-tales-both-magical-and-fearsome-with-the-boston-symphony-and-mark-elder">their description:</a></p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, March 16, 2024<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00pm</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Encore broadcast on Monday, March 25</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Eminent English conductor Sir Mark Elder returns to Symphony Hall for the first time since 2011 to lead a program exploring whimsy, fantasy, and folklore. He leads the American premiere of Elena Langer’s <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">The Dong with the Luminous Nose</i>, a setting of Edward Lear’s delightful “nonsense poem,” written for the BSO and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The performance features BSO Principal Cellist Blaise Déjardin as soloist along with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Maurice Ravel’s <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Mother Goose </i>began as a suite of children’s piano pieces, each illustrating an iconic fairytale, while Antonín Dvořák’s <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">The Noonday Witch </i>is based on a much darker Czech folktale. Czech composer Leoš Janáček’s energetically masterful Sinfonietta closes the program.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Sir Mark Elder, conductor </span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Blaise Déjardin, cello </span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Tanglewood Festival Chorus</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Maurice RAVEL <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Mother Goose </i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Elena LANGER <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">The Dong with a Luminous Nose, </i>for cello, chorus, and orchestra (American premiere; BSO co-commission)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Antonín DVOŘÁK <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">The Noonday Witch</i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Leoš JANÁČEK Sinfonietta</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">Read Edward Lear's "The Dong with a Luminous Nose" at <a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44603/the-dong-with-a-luminous-nose" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">Poetry Foundation</a>. [</u>Emphasis added.]</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">For a preview of the program with Sir Mark Elder, use the player above, and read the transcript below:</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">TRANSCRIPT:</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Brian McCreath </span>I'm Brian McCreath at Symphony Hall with Sir Mark Elder, and you are back with the Boston Symphony </p></blockquote><p>I recommend going to the BSO <a href="https://www.bso.org/events/ravel-langer-dvorak-janacek">performance detail page</a> and finding the link to the program notes, especially for the Langer and Dvořák pieces. Here's their overview of the show:</p><blockquote><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sir Mark Elder, conductor <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Blaise Déjardin, cello <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tanglewood Festival Chorus <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> James Burton, conductor </strong></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">RAVEL <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mother Goose</span> (complete) <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Elena LANGER <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Dong with a Luminous Nose</span>, for cello, chorus, and orchestra (American premiere; BSO co-commission) Commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, Music Director, through the generous support of the Arthur P. Contas Commissioning Fund.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Intermission</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />DVOŘÁK <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Noonday Witch</span> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />JANÁČEK Sinfonietta</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>[…]</i></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Eminent English conductor Sir Mark Elder returns to Symphony Hall for the first time since 2011 to lead a program full of whimsy, fantasy, and folklore. Opening the program, Maurice Ravel’s <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mother Goose </span>ballet score began as a suite of children’s piano pieces, each movement illustrating an iconic tale. Next is the American premiere of Elena Langer’s <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Dong with a Luminous Nose</span>, a setting of Edward Lear’s delightful “nonsense poem” written for the BSO and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, which gave the first performance in March 2023 featuring BSO principal cello Blaise Déjardin as soloist with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Antonín Dvořák’s <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The</span> <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Noonday Witch</span> is based on a much darker Czech folktale. Czech composer Leoš Janáček’s energetic, masterful Sinfonietta closes the concert.</p></blockquote><p>The brief<a href="https://www.classical-scene.com/2024/03/16/colorful-varied/"> review in the Intelligencer</a> is more descriptive than evaluative and contains a good description of the Langer piece. The Globe doesn't seem to have reviewed it yet.</p><p>I was there on Friday afternoon. I found the Ravel dull for the most part, but most people seem to like it. The Langer was amusing in the way the music, raucous at times and more gentle at times supported the taxt. The cellist did very well with his solos. After intermission, the Dvořák was interesting. Again, I recommend using the BSO's prograsm notes to get an idea of the action which the music represents. The Janáček is lively and fun, IMO.</p><p>All in all, it isn't must listen music, but I don't regret spending the time listening to it, and I'm looking forward to hearing it again this evening and on the 25th. Enjoy.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-62588548046357020242024-03-09T19:36:00.003-05:002024-03-09T19:36:46.279-05:00BSO — 2024/03/09<p> This evening the BSO presents Grieg's music for Peer Gynt with actors performing scenes of the play, as <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2023-09-25/peer-gynt-with-the-bso-at-symphony-hall">WCRB informs us:</a></p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, March 9, 2024<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00pm</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Encore broadcast on Monday, March 18</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">In the second BSO concert of the <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Music of the Midnight Sun </i>Festival, Dima Slobodeniouk leads a performance of <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Peer Gynt </i>by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and composer Edvard Grieg, reimagined by playwright and director Bill Barclay. This fantastical epic tale follows Peer from his home village through the Hall of the Mountain King to Northern Africa and back. </p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor </span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Georgia Jarman, soprano</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Actors from Concert Theatre Works </span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Tanglewood Festival Chorus</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Edvard GRIEG <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Peer Gynt</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">For notes and a synopsis, visit <a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://www.bso.org/works/grieg-peer-gynt-bill-barclay-adaptation" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">the BSO</a>.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Hear producer, writer, and director Bill Barclay describe the unique challenges of adapting <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Peer Gynt</i> in an interview with Jared Bowen on <a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://www.wgbh.org/culture/2024-03-05/the-unique-challenge-of-adapting-an-ibsen-epic" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">GBH's The Culture Show</a><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">.</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">To hear a preview of Peer Gynt with conductor Dima Slobodeniouk, use the player above, and read the transcript below.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Brian McCreath </span>I'm Brian McCreath at Symphony Hall with Dima Slobodeniouk, who's back in Boston for a presentation really, of <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Peer Gynt</i>. I don't want to say performance. It's really a presentation, this theatrical adaptation</p></blockquote><p>You can also read about it at the BSO's <a href="https://www.bso.org/events/grieg-peer-gynt?performance=2024-03-09-20:00">performance detail page:</a></p><blockquote><div class="event__info" style="align-items: center; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top: 1px solid var(--c-theme-950); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; display: flex; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 40px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="event__info-text" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="event__info-brand" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-brand,var(--font-sans)); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: var(--line-height-text); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Boston Symphony Orchestra</p><p class="event__venue" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.bso.org/venues/symphony-hall" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--c-text); cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-underline-offset: 0.1em; transition: background-color 0.2s ease 0s, text-decoration 0.1s ease 0s, color 0.2s ease 0s, -webkit-text-decoration 0.1s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Symphony Hall</a>, Boston, MA </p></div></div><div class="event__desc" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-text); margin: 40px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Georgia Jarman, soprano <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Actors from Concert Theatre Works<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Caleb Mayo (Peer Gynt) <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bobbie Steinbach (Åse) <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert Walsh (Button Moulder / Father of the Groom) <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Will Lyman (Voice of The Boyg) <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Risher Reddick (The Mountain King / Mads Moen / Herr Trumpetterstrale / Hussein) <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Caroline Lawton (Woman in Green / Aslak’s Wife / Herr von Eberkopf) <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Daniel Berger-Jones (Aslak / Mr. Cotton / Begriffenfeldt) <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Kortney Adams (Ingrid / Monsieur Ballon / Anitra) <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Vidar Skrede (Hardanger fiddler)</strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tanglewood Festival Chorus <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> James Burton, conductor </strong></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">GRIEG <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Peer Gynt </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />written and directed by Bill Barclay adapted from the play by Henrik Ibsen</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Please note that there is no intermission in these concerts.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This week's performances by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus are supported by the Alan J. and Suzanne W. Dworsky Fund for Voice and Chorus.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">In the second of the <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Music of the Midnight Sun </span>concerts, Finland-based Russian conductor Dima Slobodeniouk leads a staged performance of <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Peer </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gynt</span>, by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and composer Edvard Grieg. This fantastical, epic tale, theatrically reimagined by director-playwright Bill Barclay, follows Peer on his adventures from his home village through the Hall of the Mountain King, to Northern Africa, and back. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Music of the Midnight Sun</span> is supported, in part by the American Scandinavian Foundation.</p></div></blockquote><p>Fun fact: Caleb Mayo, who plays Peer Gynt is from my home town.</p><p>I saw a performance when the show was first given, and he did very well. The show was enjoyable to watch. I'm not sure how well it will translate to radio, but having the dialogue to flesh out the music should add something to our understanding of what the music's all about.</p><p><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/03/08/arts/boston-symphony-orchestra-bso-concert-bill-barclay-peer-gynt/">The review in the Globe</a> is long on description, but favorable to the performance and performers. The Intelligencer doesn't have a review of this perfomance, but <a href="https://www.classical-scene.com/2017/10/24/bso-peer-gynt/">the review from 2017</a> gives a very good description on the action that takes place (as well as "Egmont" which is not being given this time).</p><p>All in all, I recommend giving it a hearing this evening and/or on March 18.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-91927399009764744692024-03-02T18:30:00.009-05:002024-03-02T18:30:41.570-05:00BSO — 2024/03/02<p> The BSO is beginning a two-week "Music of the Midnight Sun" Festival this week. WCRB has <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2023-09-25/kuusisto-plays-nielsen-with-storgards-and-the-bso">the basic information:</a></p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, March 2, 2024<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00pm</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Encore broadcast on Monday, March 11</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Finnish conductor John Storgårds leads the first of two BSO programs in the <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Music of the Midnight Sun </i>festival, an exploration of Nordic music and storytelling. Outi Tarkiainen’s <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Midnight Sun Variations </i>transports you to her homeland of Finland. Evoking similarly vivid soundscapes, the BSO performs three tone poems by Jean Sibelius based on Finnish legends. And Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto makes his BSO debut in the orchestra’s first-ever performances of the great Danish composer Carl Nielsen’s Violin Concerto.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">John Storgårds, conductor</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Pekka Kuusisto, violin</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Outi TARKIAINEN <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Midnight Sun Variations </i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Carl NIELSEN Violin Concerto<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Jean SIBELIUS <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">The Oceanides </i>and <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">The Bard</i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />SIBELIUS <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Tapiola</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">To hear a preview of Nielsen's Violin Concerto with Pekka Kuusisto, use the player above, and read the transcript below.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">TRANSCRIPT</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Brian McCreath </span>I'm Brian McCreath. I'm at Symphony Hall with Pekka Kuusisto, who is here with the Boston Symphony for the very first time. Pekka, thank you for a little bit of your time today. I apprecia</p></blockquote><p>I have a ticket waiting for me at the box office, but I haven't had a nap today, and I'm feeling a bit drowsy. Unfortunately, public transportation is very spotty in the late evenings, so I think I'll just stay home and listen to WCRB along with you.</p><p>For additional information, you can go to the BSO's own <a href="https://www.bso.org/events/tarkiainen-nielsen-sibelius-2?performance=2024-03-02-20:00">performance detail page,</a> with its links to performer bios and program notes. Their introduction is as follows:</p><blockquote><div class="event__info" style="align-items: center; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top: 1px solid var(--c-theme-950); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; display: flex; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 40px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="event__info-text" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="event__info-brand" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-brand,var(--font-sans)); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: var(--line-height-text); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Boston Symphony Orchestra</p><p class="event__venue" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.bso.org/venues/symphony-hall" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--c-text); cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-underline-offset: 0.1em; transition: background-color 0.2s ease 0s, text-decoration 0.1s ease 0s, color 0.2s ease 0s, -webkit-text-decoration 0.1s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Symphony Hall</a>, Boston, MA </p></div></div><div class="event__desc" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-text); margin: 40px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">John Storgårds, conductor <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Pekka Kuusisto, violin</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Outi TARKIAINEN <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Midnight Sun Variations </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />NIELSEN Violin Concerto<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Intermission</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />SIBELIUS <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Oceanides</span> and <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Bard</span> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />SIBELIUS <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tapiola</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">The music and culture of Finland permeate Symphony Hall in this concert. Finnish conductor John Storgårds leads the first program in our <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Music of the Midnight Sun </span>series, an exploration of Nordic storytelling and music. Finnish composer Outi Tarkiainen’s nuanced and colorful <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Midnight Sun Variations</span> transport you to her homeland. Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto debuts with the BSO as the orchestra performs the great Danish composer Carl Nielsen’s 1911 Violin Concerto for the first time. The program closes with three of Jean Sibelius’s tone poems based on Finnish legends, their moods ranging from sweeping power to contemplative mystery.</p></div></blockquote><p>Somebody in my grandmother's generation was quoted by my mother as saying, "A little Sibelius goes a long way." Listening to his music has led me to disagree. Sibelius was a very good composer, IMO, and I'm looking forward to hearing the music on the second half of the program. As for the first half, the composer's description of "Midnight Sun Variations" in the program notes has me interested to hear it, and I have no doubt the Nielsen violin concerto will be good. I can't find any reviews in the Globe or the Intelligencer.</p><p>With what I've seen about the program, I think it should be worth listening to. Don't forget the chance to listen again with the rebroadcast on March 11.</p><p>Enjoy.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-38727011647056317832024-02-24T19:32:00.004-05:002024-02-24T19:32:39.038-05:00BSO/Classical New England — 2024/02/24<p> This eveningwe reeturn with WCRB to that thrilling evening of yesteryear — February 4, 2023, to be exact — for an enocre broadcast of the BSO in excerpts from "Tannhäuser." <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2022-11-10/the-temptations-and-majesty-of-wagners-tannhauser-from-nelsons-and-the-bso">Further detail is here</a> from WCRB:</p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, February 24th, 2024<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00 PM</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">In this encore broadcast, Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and a stellar lineup of soloists in highlights from Richard Wagner’s <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Tannhäuser.</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Andris Nelsons, conductor</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Amber Wagner, soprano (Elisabeth)</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Marina Prudenskaya, mezzo-soprano (Venus)</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Klaus Florian Vogt, tenor (Tannhäuser)</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Christian Gerhaher, baritone (Wolfram)</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Tanglewood Festival Chorus</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">ALL-WAGNER<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Overture and “Venusberg Music” from <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Tannhäuser</i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Tannhäuser, </i>Act III</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Hear a preview with Andris Nelsons in the audio player above, and read the transcript below:</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">This concert was originally broadcasted on Feb 4th, 2023 and is no longer available on demand.</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">TRANSCRIPT:</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Brian McCreath </span>I'm Brian McCreath at Symphony Hall with Andris Nelsons, who's back in Boston to lead a concert of excerpts from <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Tannhäuser</i>, Wagner's opera. Andris, thanks for your time today. I appreciate it.</p></blockquote><p>I posted about it at the time, and I assume the links there are still working.</p><p>It's good music, I think, and worth listening to. As I commented then about the story: "<i>The thing is, the opera is fiction using the historical characters of the great medieval poet Wolfram von Eschenbach, Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia (also known as Elizabeth of Hungary), and the poet/minstrel Tannhäuser. There was also a jubilee year in which pilgrims flocked to Rome. But basically, the opera is a pretty good story of sin, love, and redemption.</i>" There probably won't be a further rebroadcast on Monday, March 4, since they don't customarily do that with the "encore broadcasts." So listen this evening if you can.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-44839356107279641982024-02-17T18:57:00.007-05:002024-02-17T18:57:40.719-05:00BSO — 2024/02/17<p> As usual, we can get the basics about this evening's Boston Symphony concert from <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2023-09-25/rachmaninoffs-dazzling-third-piano-concerto-with-yunchan-lim-and-the-bso">WCRB's webpage:</a></p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, February 17, 2024<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00pm</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Encore broadcast on Monday, February 26</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">South Korean pianist Yunchan Lim won the gold medal in the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, becoming the youngest person ever to do so. His final round performance featured Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, a piece he performs with the BSO at Symphony Hall with returning guest conductor Tugan Sokhiev. Sokhiev also leads a rarity: French composer Ernest Chausson’s only symphony and the composer’s masterpiece, the passionate Symphony in B-flat. </p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Tugan Sokhiev, conductor</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Yunchan Lim, piano</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Sergei RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Ernest CHAUSSON Symphony in B-flat</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">To hear a preview of the program with Tugan Sokhiev, use the player above, and read the transcript below.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">See Chausson's brother-in-law Henry Lerolle's painting "The Organ Rehearsal," depicting Chausson at the organ console, a the <a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436880" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">TRANSCRIPT (lightly edited for clarity):</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Brian McCreath </span>I'm Brian McCreath at Symphony Hall with Tugan Sokhiev, who has returned to the Boston Symphony for the first time in a few years, I think Tugan</p></blockquote><p>Further information is available at the BSO <a href="https://www.bso.org/events/rachmaninoff-chausson?performance=2024-02-17-20:00">performance detail page,</a> which tells us:</p><blockquote><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tugan Sokhiev, conductor <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Yunchan Lim, piano</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Intermission</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />CHAUSSON Symphony in B-flat</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Friday afternoon’s concert is in memory of Jerome H. Grossman, MD, supported by the Grossman Family<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Saturday evening's performance by Yunchan Lim is supported by Elizabeth W. and John M. Loder.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Saturday evening’s concert is in memory of Dr. Lawrence H. Cohn.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">South Korean pianist Yunchan Lim — the youngest person ever to win the gold medal in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition — joins returning guest conductor Tugan Sokhiev to perform one of the greatest, most popular, and most virtuosic works in the repertoire: Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 3, which the composer himself played with the BSO in 1919 and 1935. Sokhiev also leads a rare gem of a piece: French composer Ernest Chausson’s passionate one and only symphony. The Symphony in B-flat (1890) was a favorite of former BSO Music Director Charles Munch, and the BSO last performed it in 1993.</p></blockquote><p>See the page for links to performer bios and program notes.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/02/16/arts/yunchan-lim-bso-review-new-england-conservatory/">review in the Globe</a> was enthusiastic, <a href="https://www.classical-scene.com/2024/02/16/room-top/">that in the Intelligencer</a> a bit less so, but together they give me the impression that this is a concert not to be missed. Sotune in or connect on the web if you can (and don't forget the repeat on the 26th) and enjoy. I'm definitely looking forward to it.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-51423519394894806702024-02-10T18:49:00.009-05:002024-02-10T18:49:47.249-05:00BSO — 2024/02/10<p> This evening's BSO program has only two works. I'll let <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2023-09-25/canellakis-conducts-the-bso-in-bluebeards-castle">WCRB tell you</a> about them:</p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, February 10, 2024<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00pm</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Encore broadcast on Monday, February 19</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Karina Canellakis leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Bartók’s chilling and thrilling two-character opera <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Bluebeard’s Castle</i>, based on the fable of the cruel duke whose new wife discovers his terrible past. Scottish mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill returns to Symphony Hall and German bass-baritone Johannes Martin Kränzle makes his BSO debut. Also returning to the BSO stage is cellist Alisa Weilerstein, performing Haydn’s playful Cello Concerto in C.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Karina Canellakis, conductor </span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Alisa Weilerstein, cello </span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Nathan Berg, bass-baritone </span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Joseph HAYDN Cello Concerto in C<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Béla BARTÓK <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Duke Bluebeard’s Castle </i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">For a libretto and translation of Duke Bluebeard's Castle, visit <a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://mahlerfest.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Bluebeard-translation-final.pdf" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">Colorado MahlerFest</a>.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">To hear a preview of <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Bluebeard's Castle </i>and Haydn's Cello Concerto with conductor Karina Canellakis, use the player above, and read the transcript below.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">TRANSCRIPT</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Brian McCreath </span>I'm Brian McCreath at Symphony Hall with Karina Canellakis, so good to have you back</p></blockquote><p>The Haydn piece is very pleasant. I hear it on the radio from time to time. As for the Bartók, I was at a BSO performance a nnumber of years ago and my recollection is that I found it dull. I guess it's supposed to be allegorical.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.bso.org/events/haydn-bartok?performance=2024-02-10-20:00">BSO performance detail pag</a>e puts it this way:</p><blockquote><div class="event__info" style="align-items: center; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top: 1px solid var(--c-theme-950); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: var(--font-brand,var(--font-sans)); font-size: calc(14px + 0.5vw); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 40px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="event__info-text" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 19.53499984741211px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="event__info-brand" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-brand,var(--font-sans)); font-size: calc(14px + 0.5vw); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: var(--line-height-text); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Boston Symphony Orchestra</p><p class="event__venue" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.bso.org/venues/symphony-hall" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--c-text); cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-underline-offset: 0.1em; transition: background-color 0.2s ease 0s, text-decoration 0.1s ease 0s, color 0.2s ease 0s, -webkit-text-decoration 0.1s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Symphony Hall</a>, Boston, MA </p></div></div><div class="event__desc" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-brand,var(--font-sans)); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-text); margin: 40px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Karina Canellakis, conductor <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Alisa Weilerstein, cello <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Karen Cargill, mezzo-soprano <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Nathan Berg, bass-baritone<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Jeremiah Kissel, narrator</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">HAYDN Cello Concerto in C<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Intermission</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />BARTÓK <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bluebeard’s Castle</span>*</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">*Concert performance; sung in Hungarian with English supertitles</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thursday evening's concert is supported by Alex Healy. Friday afternoon's performance by the vocal soloists is supported by a generous gift from the Ethan Ayer Vocal Soloist Fund.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Friday afternoon's performance by Alisa Weilerstein is supported by the May and Dan Pierce Guest Artist Fund.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Saturday evening's concert is supported by Mr. C. Thomas Brown.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Saturday evening's performance by Alisa Weilerstein is supported by Professor Paul L. Joskow and Dr. Barbara Chasen Joskow.</span></p>American conductor Karina Canellakis returns to lead a concert performance of Béla Bartók’s chilling and evocative opera <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bluebeard's Castle</span>. Based on the fable of the cruel duke whose new wife discovers his terrible past, the opera features some of Bartók’s most riveting orchestral writing. Scottish mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill sings the role of Judith, Canadian bass-baritone Nathan Berg is Bluebeard, and speaker Jeremiah Kissel performs the opera’s Prologue in these performances. To begin these concerts, the innovative American cellist Alisa Weilerstein is soloist in Joseph Haydn’s playful Cello Concerto in C.<p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Scholar and writer Lucy Caplan will give the Friday Preview on February 9 at 12:15pm. Admission included with ticket.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Thursday's performance will end around 9:30pm, Friday's performance will end around 3:30pm, and Saturday's performance will end around 10pm.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p></div><div class="event__announcement announcements-list__item messaging--warning" style="--announcement-border-width: 1px; --announcement-icon-margin-inline-end: 1.5rem; --announcement-icon-margin-inline-start: 0; --announcement-icon-padding-outer: calc(var(--announcement-icon-size)/4.5); --announcement-icon-size: 2.375rem; --announcement-icon-svg: calc(var(--announcement-icon-size)/2.25); --announcement-padding-block: 0.5rem; --announcement-padding-inline: 0.5rem; --c-bg: var(--c-neutral-100); --c-brand-rgb: var(--c-theme-400-rgb); --c-brand: var(--c-theme-400); 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border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; column-gap: 0.25rem; display: grid; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; row-gap: 0.25rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="announcements-list__text" style="--line-height-text: 1.4; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--c-theme-950); font-family: var(--font-brand,var(--font-sans)); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-text); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Regretfully, baritone Johannes Martin Kränzle has had to withdraw from his performances this week in the role of Bluebeard in Bartók’s <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bluebeard’s Castle</span> due to illness. We are fortunate that bass-baritone Nathan Berg is able to sing the role in his place at very short notice.</p></div></div></div><div class="event__performances " style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: var(--font-brand,var(--font-sans)); font-size: calc(14px + 0.5vw); font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-text); margin: 40px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="event__performance js-event-performance" data-performance-availability="{"public":{"time":"1690898400","display":"Aug 1, 2023 at 10:00am EDT"},"presale":[{"rankType":"BSO Presale|BSO Presale - Manual","rank":"10","onsale":{"time":"1689566400","display":"Jul 17, 2023 at 12:00am EDT"}},{"rankType":"BSO Presale|BSO Presale - Manual","rank":"20","onsale":{"time":"1689566400","display":"Jul 17, 2023 at 12:00am EDT"}},{"rankType":"BSO Presale|BSO Presale - Manual","rank":"30","onsale":{"time":"1690171200","display":"Jul 24, 2023 at 12:00am EDT"}},{"rankType":"BSO Presale|BSO Presale - Manual","rank":"40","onsale":{"time":"1690344000","display":"Jul 26, 2023 at 12:00am EDT"}},{"rankType":"BSO Presale|BSO Presale - Manual","rank":"50","onsale":{"time":"1690516800","display":"Jul 28, 2023 at 12:00am EDT"}}]}" data-performance-date="Feb 8, 2024, 7:30pm EST" data-performance-id="1087642" data-performance-query-date="2024-02-08-19:30" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--c-theme-950); border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top: 1px solid var(--c-theme-950); box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19.53499984741211px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="event__performance-cols" style="align-items: center; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; justify-content: space-between; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="event__performance-left" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div></blockquote><p>See that page for program notes.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/02/09/arts/bso-bluebeards-castle-karina-canellakis/">Globe liked the performances</a> but felt that there was no connection between the pieces. <a href="https://www.classical-scene.com/2024/02/10/sunlit-moonlit/">The review in the Intelligencer </a>is quite complete and favorable.</p><p>So maybe enjoy the Haydn and give the Bartók a try.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-6491907074035523622024-02-03T18:59:00.010-05:002024-02-03T18:59:53.547-05:00BSO — 2024/02/03<p> This is definitely a "must listen" concert. WCRB tells us the basics <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2023-09-25/randall-goosbys-boston-symphony-debut">on their website:</a></p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, February 3, 2024<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00pm</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Encore broadcast on Monday, February 12</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra welcome American violinist Randall Goosby, the youngest-ever winner of the Sphinx Concerto Competition, to Symphony Hall! Nelsons conducts Max Bruch’s spirited Violin Concerto No. 1 with Goosby as the soloist, as well as Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, the <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Reformation</i>Symphony. The concert opens with the overture to the opera <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">The Wreckers </i>by celebrated early 20th century suffragette and composer Dame Ethel Smyth.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Andris Nelsons, conductor</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Randall Goosby, violin</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Dame Ethel SMYTH Overture to <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">The Wreckers</i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Max BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Felix MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 5, <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Reformation</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">To hear Randall Goosby describe his history with Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1, what he learned while studying with Itzhak Perlman, and why he's passionate about music by Florence Price, use the player above, and read the transcript below.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">To learn more about Ethel Smyth and Isabella Stewart Gardner, visit the <a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/ethel-smyth-composer-and-activist" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">Gardner Museum</a>.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT: </p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Brian McCreath </span>I'm Brian McCreath at Symphony Hall with Randall Goosby, here with the Boston Symphony for the very first time. Randall, is it also your first time playing in Symphony Hall at all?</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Randall Goosby </span>It is. It's actually my first time stepping foot in Symphony Hall.</p></blockquote><p>I was there for the Friday matinee performance, and it was all good listening. The Bruch and Mendelssohn are familiar pieces and pleasant to hear.(Of course the Reformation itself isn't my favorite thing, but Mendelssohn's symphony is good music.) The Smyth. on the other hand is something I've never heard before (and the BSO has never played). It's fascinating and quite musical, although in a style suitable for the story of the opera.</p><p>By all means check out the BSO <a href="https://www.bso.org/events/smyth-bruch-mendelssohn?performance=2024-02-03-20:00">performance detail page</a> for the informative program note about the Overture to <i>The Wreckers</i> (as well as for the other information available). Here's their summary for the concert as a whole:</p><blockquote><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Andris Nelsons, conductor <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Randall Goosby, violin</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">SMYTH Overture to <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Wreckers </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Intermission</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 5, <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Reformation</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Saturday evening’s concert is in memory of Jane O’Keefe, supported by Cecilia O’Keefe.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Music Director Andris Nelsons opens the program with the overture to the 1906 opera <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Wreckers </span>by Dame Ethel Smyth, a composer and suffragist who was one of England’s leading musicians of her time. American violinist Randall Goosby, the youngest-ever winner of the Sphinx Concerto Competition, makes his BSO debut with Max Bruch’s spirited Violin Concerto No. 1. The program closes with Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, composed in 1830 as part of celebrations of the 300th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. The music quotes the familiar hymn “Ein feste Burg,” a link to Reformation leader Martin Luther. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">On February 2 the Friday Preview will be given by Marc Mandel, former BSO Director of Program Publications, at 12:15pm. Admission included with ticket.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 41, 79); color: #14294f; font-family: Aeonik, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Friday's concert will end around 3:15pm, and Saturday's concert will end around 9:45pm.</p></blockquote><p>I can't find a review in the Globe, but there's <a href="https://www.classical-scene.com/2024/02/03/nostalgia-hall/">a favorable one in the Intelligencer,</a> concentrating on the violinist, who was quite good.</p><p>Even the familiar music seemed fresh. I also noticed several fresh faces. The contrabassonist looked to be in his twenties, and his low notes were clearly audible . There looked like a couple of new players in the second row of the double basses, and I don't remember seeing the female trombonist. There were also a couple of unfamiliar horn players. Sometime I should look at the orcheedstra's online personnel page to find out a bit about them, but at any rate there's always some change going on as the older members retire and new ones are brought in.</p><p>This is a concert well worth hearing. Don't forget the rebroadcast on February 12.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-16023868877139818032024-01-27T18:53:00.030-05:002024-01-27T19:31:30.688-05:00BSO — 2024/01/27<p> Oops! Tonight's show begins an hour early at 7:00. Here's what you need to know:</p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, January 27, 2024<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />7:00pm</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Encore broadcast on Monday, February 5</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Andris Nelsons's conducts the BSO in <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, </i>the most ambitious endeavor in their multi-year survey of works by Shostakovich. Based on Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 novella by the same name, the opera weaves the lurid story of Katarina Ismailova, an oppressed, ambitious, and ultimately murderous wife of a provincial merchant.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Andris Nelsons, conductor</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Kristine Opolais, soprano (Katerina Izmailova)</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Brenden Gunnell, tenor (Sergei)</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Peter Hoare, tenor (Zinovy Izmailov)</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Günther Groissböck, bass (Boris Izmailov and Ghost of Boris)</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Michelle Trainor, soprano (Aksinya)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Alexandra LoBianco, soprano (Female Convict)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Maria Barakova, mezzo-soprano (Sonyetka)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Matthew DiBattista, tenor (Teacher)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Neal Ferreira, tenor (Foreman)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Charles Blandy, tenor (Foreman & Drunken Guest)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Yeghishe Manucharyan, tenor (Foreman & Coachman)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Alexander Kravets, tenor (Shabby Peasant)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />David Kravitz, baritone (Millhand)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Brandon Cedel, bass (Porter & Policeman)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Joo Won Kang, baritone (Steward)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Patrick Guetti, bass (Officer and Sentry)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Goran Juric, bass (Priest)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Anatoli Sivko, bass (Chief of Police)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Paata Burchuladze, bass (Old Convict)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Tanglewood Festival Chorus </span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">James Burton, conductor</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">To read artist biographies and program notes, visit the <a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://www.bso.org/events/shostakovich-lady-macbeth-of-mtsensk?performance=2024-01-27-19:00" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">BSO</a>.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">To hear a preview with Music Director Andris Nelsons, BSO Vice President for Artistic Planning Anthony Fogg, and GBH's Jared Bowen on The Culture Show, use the player above, and read the transcript below.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://www.wgbh.org/shows/the-culture-show" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">Learn more about The Culture Show on GBH, Monday-Friday at 2pm.</a></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">TRANSCRIPT:</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Jared Bowen </span>Andris Nelsons, Tony Fogg, thank you so much for sitting down with us.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Andris Nelsons </span>Great pleasure, thank you.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Anthony Fogg </span>Pleasure.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Jared Bowen </span>So, Andris, I am so eager to to talk to you about your connection to this piece. But, Tony, let me start with you for a second. For the Boston Symphony Orchestra to take on this opera, this is a very </p></blockquote><p>I'll add more as we go along.</p><p><a href="https://www.bso.org/events/shostakovich-lady-macbeth-of-mtsensk?performance=2024-01-27-19:00">BSO performance detail page,</a> which includes link to program notes.</p><p><a href="https://www.classical-scene.com/2024/01/26/bso-mtsensk/">Review in the Intelligencer.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/01/26/arts/lady-macbeth-bso-shostakovich-cycle/">Review in the Globe.</a></p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-25689750252521041822024-01-20T18:38:00.000-05:002024-01-20T18:38:09.935-05:00BSO/Classical New England — 2024/01/20<p> The BSO isn't performing this weekend, so WCRB is giving us an encore broadcast of a concert from last April. <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2022-11-11/an-american-premiere-with-gautier-capucon-and-the-bso">Here's the scoop:</a></p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, January 20, 2024<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00pm</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">In an encore broadcast, French cellist Gautier Capuçon takes center stage with the Boston Symphony for the American premiere of Thierry Escaich’s new work for cello and orchestra, and Andris Nelsons conducts Ravel’s <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Alborada del gracioso </i>and Rachmaninoff’s romantic Symphony No. 2.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Andris Nelsons, conductor</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Gautier Capuçon, cello</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Maurice RAVEL <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Alborada del gracioso</i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Thierry ESCAICH <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Les Chants de l’Aube, </i>for cello and orchestra<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Sergei RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">This concert was originally broadcasted on April 15, 2023, and is no longer available on demand.</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Hear a preview of Thierry Escaich's <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Les Chants de l’Aube </i>with cellist Gautier Capuçon using the audio player above, and read the transcript below.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">TRANSCRIPT:</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Brian McCreath </span>I'm Brian McCreath at Symphony Hall with Gautier Capuçon, who is back in Boston after some really memor</p></blockquote><p>I posted about it (with many typos) at the time of the actual performance and said it was all "very okay." If you can find that post, the links to the favorable reviews still work. It looks as if I neglected to give the link for the performance detail page. <a href="https://www.bso.org/events/escaich-ravel-rachmaninoff?performance=2023-04-15-20:00">Here it is.</a></p><p>So, while I thought it wasn't "must listen" music, I still recommend giving it a hearing.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-47074078184039942192024-01-13T19:53:00.000-05:002024-01-13T19:53:03.562-05:00BSO — 2024/01/13<p> The BSO is back live with a concert I don't especially care about. WCRB gives us the essentials: https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2023-09-25/leons-stride-and-ravel-with-seong-jin-cho-and-the-bso</p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, January 13, 2024<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00pm</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Encore broadcast on Monday, January 22</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Recent Pulitzer Prize winner and 2022 Kennedy Center honoree Tania León brings <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Stride</i>to Symphony Hall, a piece inspired by Susan B. Anthony and the steps women continue to take towards equality. Award-winning pianist Seong-Jin Cho returns to perform Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, composed for pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who lost an arm in World War I. The concert closes with one of the most influential pieces in history: Stravinsky’s <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">The Rite of Spring</i>.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Andris Nelsons, conductor</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Seong-Jin Cho, piano</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Tania LEÓN <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Stride </i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Maurice RAVEL Piano Concerto for the left hand<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Igor STRAVINSKY <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">The Rite of Spring</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/2023-07-28/19th-amendment-19-women-ny-philharmonics-2020-program-celebrates-suffragists" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">Watch Tania León describe the creative process behind <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Stride</i>.</a></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">From NPR: <a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2021/06/11/1005649919/tania-leon-wins-music-pulitzer-for-stride-a-celebration-of-womens-suffrage" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">Tania León Wins Music Pulitzer For</a><a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2021/06/11/1005649919/tania-leon-wins-music-pulitzer-for-stride-a-celebration-of-womens-suffrage" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">Stride</a><a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2021/06/11/1005649919/tania-leon-wins-music-pulitzer-for-stride-a-celebration-of-womens-suffrage" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">, Celebrating Women's Resilience.</a></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">To hear Seong-Jin Cho preview Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, use the player above, and read the transcript below.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">TRANSCRIPT:</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Brian McCreath </span>I'm Brian McCreath at Symphony Hall with Seong-Jin Cho</p></blockquote><p>I'll listen to the first piece out of curiosity. As far as I'm concerned, the Concerto for the Left Hand is innocuous but nothing special, so I'll leave the radio on; but I don't like Rite of Spring, so I may well turn the radio off after intermission.</p><p>The BSO's <a href="https://www.bso.org/events/leon-ravel-stravinsky?performance=2024-01-13-20:00">performance detail page</a> tells us:</p><blockquote><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Andris Nelsons, conductor <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Seong-Jin Cho, piano</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Tania LEÓN <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stride</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />RAVEL Piano Concerto for the left hand<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Intermission</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />STRAVINSKY <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Rite of Spring</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This week’s performances of Tania León Stride are supported in part by income from the Morton Margolis fund in the BSO’s endowment.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Thursday evening's performance by Seong-Jin Cho is supported by the Nathan R. Miller Family Guest Artist Fund.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Tania León’s Pulitzer Prize-winning piece <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stride </span>draws on her Cuban heritage and her long association with dance to create music rich with rhythmic vitality and scintillating instrumental colors. Superstar Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho plays Maurice Ravel’s dramatic Piano Concerto for the left hand, originally composed for pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his arm during World War I. Closing the concert is and one of the most influential pieces in history: Igor Stravinsky’s ballet score <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Rite of Spring</span>, a work of primal power.</p></blockquote><p>Program notes are there for each of the pieces.</p><p>So far, there is no review in the Intelligencer, but <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/01/12/arts/stride-rite-left-hand-concerto-make-hot-blooded-evening-with-bso/">the Globe is very favorable,</a> especially for the Ravel concerto.</p><p>Enjoy, if you listen.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-49286004689856968282023-12-30T17:25:00.000-05:002023-12-30T17:25:05.710-05:00BSO/Classical New England — 2023/12/30<p> For this week's "encore broadcast" WCRB brings us the concert of September 24, 2022, which they <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2022-09-16/opening-night-at-symphony-hall">describe as follows:</a></p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, December 30, 2023<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00 PM</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">In an encore broadcast, Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony and the Lorelei Ensemble in Gustav Holst’s sweeping "The Planets<i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">,"</i> and pianist Awadagin Pratt makes his BSO debut with a concerto by J.S. Bach and Jessie Montgomery’s "Rounds."</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Andris Nelsons, conductor</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Awadagin Pratt, piano</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Lorelei Ensemble</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">John WILLIAMS <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">A Toast</i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Johann Sebastian BACH Keyboard Concerto in A, BWV 1055<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Jessie MONTGOMERY <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Rounds</i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Gustav HOLST <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">The Planets</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">This concert was originally recorded on September 24, 2022.</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">To hear a preview of Jessie Montgomery's <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Rounds </i>with pianist Awadagin Pratt, use the audio player above.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Transcript:</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Brian McCreath </span>I'm Brian McCreath at Symphony Hall, where I talked with pianist Awadagin Pratt today about Jessie Montgomery's <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Rounds</i></p></blockquote><p>I posted about it at the time. Since I had heard the same program on Thursday, I was able to give my impressions as well as link the reviews. Those links still work. Here's a <a href="https://www.bso.org/events/williams-bach-montgomery-holst?performance=2022-09-22-19:30">link to the BSO performance detail page</a>, which gives access to the full program notes.</p><p>Enjoy.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-69202990184905671752023-12-23T19:16:00.006-05:002023-12-23T19:16:30.863-05:00BSO/Classical New England — 2023/12/23<p> They don't tell us in so many words, but it looks as if this evening's BSO offering from WCRB is this collection from the days of Seiji Ozawa: https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2021-11-11/tchaikovskys-the-nutcracker-from-the-bso</p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, December 25, 2021<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00 PM</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">In a timeless holiday season tradition, Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra bring to life Tchaikovsky's magical tale of Christmas, Sugar Plum Fairies, and one very handsome prince!</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Boston Symphony Orchestra<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Seiji Ozawa, conductor</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">BACH/STRAVINSKY Chorale Variations on<i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;"> Vom Himmel hoch</i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />TCHAIKOVSKY <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">The Nutcracker</i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />BERLIOZ Overture and "Shepherd's Farewell" from Part 2 of<i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;"> L'enfance du Christ</i></p></blockquote><p>It's good stuff, worth listening to.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-80587883937545477772023-12-16T17:27:00.003-05:002023-12-16T17:27:26.658-05:00BSO/Classical New England — 2023/12/16<p> As Holiday Pops continues to hold the stage in Symphony Hall, WCRB treats us to another "encore broadcast." This time it's the concert of last April 22, which they describe <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2022-11-11/a-tribute-to-sibelius-with-mutter-schultz-and-the-bso">as follows:</a></p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, December 16, 2023<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00 PM</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">In an encore broadcast, Anne-Sophie Mutter is the soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Thomas Adès’s <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Air</i>, a work inspired by Sibelius. Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Sibelius’s <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Luonnotar</i>, with soprano Golda Schultz, and in his Symphony No. 5.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Andris Nelsons, conductor</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Golda Schultz, soprano</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">SIBELIUS <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Luonnotar </i>(<a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://www.luonnotar.fi/Luonnotar/Home_files/Luonnotar_Runo_Poem.pdf" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">translation</a>)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />MOZART Violin Concerto No. 1<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Thomas ADÈS <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Air</i>, for violin and orchestra<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">This concert was originally recorded on April 22, 2023, and is no longer available on demand.</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Hear a preview of Thomas Adès's <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Air </i>with Anne-Sophie Mutter using the audio player above, and read the transcript below.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT:</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Brian McCreath </span>I'm Brian McCreath at Symphony Hall with Anne-Sophie Mutter, who is back with the Boston Symph</p></blockquote><p>I wrote about it at the time, and I'm connfident all the links in my post will still work, so check them out. It was good last spring, so it should be good now.</p><p>Enjoy.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-69253196636736026022023-12-09T20:05:00.000-05:002023-12-09T20:05:03.753-05:00December WHRB Orgy® Season<p> I'm sorry I didn't get to this sooner. The Warhorse Orgyran on December 1 and 2. Then came Brahms 190, which ended yesterday.Fortunately, there is still good material to come. Beginning at noon on Decfember10, we get 100 Yeqars of Maria Callas. The The Emerson Quartet Orgy begins at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, December 11. It continues off and on until Wednesday evening. One intermission is at 1:00 on Tuesday: Gems of French Opera.</p><p>The full program guide, with specific timings, is available at https://www.whrb.org/programming/program-guide/</p><p>There's also a button on that page for you to listen if you're beyond broadcast range.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-42244275735537798692023-12-09T18:57:00.008-05:002023-12-09T18:57:43.894-05:00BSO/Classical New England — 2023/12/09<p>My cruise prevented me from posting on November 18; my cancelled flight home and the fonsequent delay of one day kept me from saying anything on the 25th. I don't remember why I didn't put anything up last week, but finally I'm back and ready to go. Meanwhile, I hope you found the concerts without a push from me.</p><p>Now the Symphony is on hiatus while "Holiday Pops" graces Symphony Hall. We get an encore broadcast from last winter. Here's <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2022-11-11/the-voyages-of-saint-saens-with-thibaudet-shani-and-the-bso">the blurb from WCRB:</a></p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, December 9th, 2023<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00pm</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">In an encore broadcast, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins the Boston Symphony for Saint-Saëns’s virtuosic <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Egyptian </i>Concerto, and Israeli conductor Lahav Shani leads the BSO in his Symphony Hall debut with Prokofiev’s <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Classical </i>Symphony and Rachmaninoff’s dazzling <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Symphonic Dances.</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Lahav Shani, conductor</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Sergei PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Classical</i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Camille SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 5, <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Egyptian</i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Sergei RACHMANINOFF <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Symphonic Dances</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">This concert was originally broadcasted on February 18th, 2023 and is no longer available on demand.</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Hear a preview of Saint-Saëns's Piano Concerto No. 5 with Jean-Yves Thibaudet with the audio player above, and read the transcript below:</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT:</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Brian McCreath </span>I'm Brian McCreath at Sy</p></blockquote><p>(The past participle of broadcast is broadcast, not "broadcasted." What's the matter with kids these days?)</p><p>I posted about it back then, and I expect the links there to work now. It looks as if I neglected to post a link to the BSO's performance detail page.<a href="https://www.bso.org/events/prokofiev-rachmaninoff?performance=2023-02-18-20:00">Here it is, </a>with the usual links.</p><p>This should be enjoyable.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-23498454029885183512023-11-11T19:22:00.005-05:002023-11-11T19:22:33.179-05:00BSO — 2023/11/11<p> Sorry I missed last week.</p><p>Here's <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2023-09-13/grief-faith-and-transcendence-with-lintu-and-the-boston-symphony">WCRB's synopsis</a> of this week's concert:</p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, November 11, 2023<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00pm</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Encore broadcast on Monday, November 20</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu leads the BSO in Peter Lieberson’s <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Drala</i>, inspired by the Tibetan Buddhist term describing life-source, as well as Schumann’s brooding and majestic Symphony No. 4. Leonidas Kavakos returns to Symphony Hall to perform Alban Berg’s final finished piece, the Violin Concerto, written in response to the death of Alma Mahler's daughter.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Hannu Lintu, conductor</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Leonidas Kavakos, violin</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Peter LIEBERSON <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Drala</i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Alban BERG Violin Concerto<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Robert SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://leonidaskavakos.lnk.to/Bach" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">Leonidas Kavakos</a><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;"> appears courtesy of Sony Classical, a label of Sony Music Entertainment</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">In a preview conversation, Hannu Lintu describes the connections among the three pieces on this program, the story behind Berg's Violin Concerto, with its dedication to Manon Gropius and the meaning behind the Bach chorale embedded in its last movement, and why his Finnish musical background draws him to Schumann's Fourth Symphony. To listen, use the player above, and read the transcript below.</p></blockquote><p>Meanwhile, the BSO's <a href="https://www.bso.org/events/lieberson-berg-schumann?performance=2023-11-11-20:00">performance detail page</a> gives us this (along with links to the program notes):</p><blockquote><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hannu Lintu, conductor <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Leonidas Kavakos, violin </strong></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">LIEBERSON <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Drala</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />BERG Violin Concerto<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Intermission</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">How do you see the world? <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Drala</span>, a BSO commission by American composer Peter Lieberson, premiered in 1986 and takes its title from a Tibetan Buddhist term. The word “drala” has many meanings, one of which relates to deepening and expanding one’s perception of the world. Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu leads the BSO and frequent guest Leonidas Kavakos in Alban Berg’s final finished piece; quoting poignantly from Bach, this haunting 1935 Violin Concerto was written in response to the death of a friend’s daughter. In closing, Robert Schumann’s majestic Symphony No. 4, which draws inspiration from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in its use of recurring musical themes to tie together the work’s four movements.</p></blockquote><p>The <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/11/10/arts/hannu-lintu-leonidas-kavakos-meditate-impermanence-with-bso/">Globe reviewer</a> didn't like the first piece but seems to have enjoyed the rest.</p><p>The <a href="https://www.classical-scene.com/2023/11/10/bso-modern/">Intelligencer's reviewer</a> loved the first piece, but was unhappy with the Schumann.</p><p>Based on all that, I'm not expecting to enjoy "Drala." In general, I don't care for Berg, but the violin concerto may be less bad than some of his stuff. So for me, the best part will come after intermission, with the Schumann symphony. See what you think, f you listen.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-42613529808970425292023-10-28T18:32:00.010-04:002023-10-28T18:32:49.884-04:00BSO/Classical New England — 2023/10/28<p> The BSO isn't at Symphony Hall this week, so WCRB is giving us an "encore broadcast" of a concert from last April. Herewith <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2022-11-11/schumann-mozart-and-chin-with-lee-and-the-bso">the particulars as they give them:</a></p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, October 28th, 2023<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00pm</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">In an encore broadcast, BSO Assistant Conductor Earl Lee conducts Unsuk Chin’s powerful tribute to Beethoven, <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">subito con forza</i>, and Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 2, as well as Mozart’s brooding Piano Concerto No. 20 featuring soloist Eric Lu in his Boston Symphony debut.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Earl Lee, conductor</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Eric Lu, piano</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Unsuk CHIN <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">subito con forza</i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20, K. 466<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Robert SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">This concert was originally broadcasted on April 8th, 2023 is no longer available on demand.</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Hear a preview with conductor Earl Lee using the audio player above, and read the transcript below.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">TRANSCRIPT:</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Brian McCreath </span>I'm Brian McCreath at Symphony Hall with Earl Lee, Boston Symphony Assistant Conductor. Earl,</p></blockquote><p>For whatever reason, I failed to post about it back in April. Fortunately, the BSO <a href="https://www.bso.org/events/chin-mozart-schumann?performance=2023-04-08-20:00">performance detail page</a> for the concert is still available, with active links to the program notes and the following general blurb:</p><blockquote><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">BSO Assistant Conductor Earl Lee, making his full-program Symphony Hall debut, is joined by acclaimed young Chinese American pianist Eric Lu for Wolfgang Mozart’s passionate, stormy D minor piano concerto. The title of South Korean-born composer Unsuk Chin’s brief, exciting concert opener translates as "suddenly, with power." Composed during one of his periods of chronic depression, Robert Schumann’s Second Symphony is nevertheless wonderfully affirmative and optimistic in character.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eric Lu’s performance Friday afternoon is supported by the May and Dan Pierce Guest Artist Fund.</span></p><hr style="background-color: black; border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 40px; margin-top: 40px; padding: 0px;" /><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Earl Lee, conductor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></strong><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eric Lu, piano</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Unsuk CHIN <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">subito con forza<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span>MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Intermission</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/09/arts/earl-lee-eric-lu-prove-names-watch-with-bso/?p1=BGSearch_Overlay_Results">The review in the Globe</a> is favorable; I can't find one in the Intelligencer.</p><p>It seems that if this isn't quite up to the level of "must listen," you could certainly do worse.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-61529819506470202592023-10-21T18:23:00.001-04:002023-10-21T18:23:11.711-04:00BBSO — 2023/10/21<p> This is one you won't want to miss. <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2023-09-13/paul-lewis-and-beethovens-emperor-with-the-boston-symphony-orchestra">Here's how WCRB describes it:</a></p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, October 21, 2023<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00pm</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Encore broadcast on Monday, October 30</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with soloist Paul Lewis. This heroic piece is paired with Hannah Kendall’s <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">The Spark Catchers</i>, a new work inspired by imagery from Lemn Sissay’s poem by the same name, and James Lee III’s <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Freedom’s Genuine Dawn,</i> a BSO co-commission with texts by the 19th-century African-American orator and activist Frederick Douglass read by narrator Thomas Warfield.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Andris Nelsons, conductor </span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Paul Lewis, piano</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Thomas Warfield, narrator</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Hannah KENDALL <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">The Spark Catchers</i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />James LEE III <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Freedom’s Genuine Dawn, </i>for narrator and orchestra (BSO co-commission)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Emperor</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Read Lemn Sissay's 2017 poem "The Spark Catchers" <a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://proletarianpoetry.com/2017/06/27/spark-catchers-by-lemn-sissay/" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Read the entire text of "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" from <a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927t.html" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">PBS</a> and learn more about the speech from the <a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/nations-story-what-slave-fourth-july" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">National Museum of African American History and Culture</a>.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Using the tabs below, you can hear composer James Lee III describe the genesis of <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Freedom's Genuine Dawn</i> as well as Paul Lewis describe the journey of performing all five of Beethoven's Piano Concertos. Transcripts included below.</p><div class="Enh" data-align-center="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 50px auto; max-width: 700px; width: 700px;"><ps-tabs class="Tabs" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; position: relative;"><div class="Tabs-header" style="align-items: center; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><div class="Tabs-header-title" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primaryTextColor); font-family: var(--secHlFont),Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.18; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize; top: 2px; width: 700px;"><div class="Tabs-tabs" data-active="false" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--secC2); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><a class="Tabs-tabs-tab" data-active="true" data-cms-ai="0" data-tab-id="james-lee-iii-interview" data-tab="" href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/#james-lee-iii-interview" role="tab" style="background: var(--siteBgColor); border-color: var(--secC2); border-left-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secC6); cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--bodyFont),Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 3.44; margin-bottom: -1px; padding: 0px 15px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; white-space: nowrap;">James Lee III Interview</a><a class="Tabs-tabs-tab" data-active="false" data-cms-ai="0" data-tab-id="paul-lewis-interview" data-tab="" href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/#paul-lewis-interview" role="tab" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-left-color: transparent; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: transparent; border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secC6); cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--bodyFont),Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 3.44; margin-bottom: -1px; padding: 0px 15px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; white-space: nowrap;">Paul Lewis Interview</a></div></div></div></ps-tabs></div></blockquote><p>Of course, the major attraction comes after the intermission, Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerty, nicknamed "Emperor." It ranks amount my faavorite pieces ever. But the first part of the concert is also intriguing. I want to hear "Freedom's Genuine Dawn. From the description in the program notes, it should be worth heariing. I heard "The Spark Catchers" on Friday afternoon along with Beethoven's No. 2 and 4 on Friday afternoon. It's ho-hum — definitely tolerable but, on first hearing, not memorable. On balance, I'd say it's worth sitting through to get to the rest of the show.</p><p>The program notes, for more information about the pieces, are linked on the BSO's own <a href="https://www.bso.org/events/kendall-lee-beethoven-oct-21?performance=2023-10-21-20:00">performance detail page,</a> which begins with this description of the concert:</p><blockquote><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19.270000457763672px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Andris Nelsons, conductor<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Paul Lewis, piano <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Thomas Warfield, narrator </strong></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19.270000457763672px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Hannah KENDALL <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Spark Catchers </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />James LEE III <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Freedom’s Genuine Dawn</span>, for narrator and orchestra (Co-commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, Music Director, through the generous support of the New Works Fund established by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Intermission</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Emperor</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 19.270000457763672px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">English pianist Paul Lewis takes us on a musical and stylistic adventure through all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos over three concerts. These performances are paired with two poetic journeys: Hannah Kendall’s <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Spark Catchers</span>, inspired by imagery from Lemn Sissay’s poem by the same name; and James Lee III’s <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Freedom’s Genuine Dawn</span>, a BSO co-commission set with texts by the seminal 19th-century African American orator and activist Frederick Douglass.</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.classical-scene.com/2023/10/20/bso-lewis-kendall-concerti-and-sparks/#comment-46728">The review in the Intelligencer</a> gives some idea of what to expect in "The Spark Catchers." Since it is of the Thursday concert, it has nothing about the rest of the program. So far, there is no review in the Globe.</p><p>I'll be going out to my club for dinner. I want to try the veal chop which is a special this week. But I definitely plan to hear the rebroadcast on Monday October 30. I recommend listening this evening if you're free, and again or for the first time on the 30th.</p><blockquote><div class="Enh" data-align-center="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 50px auto; max-width: 700px; width: 700px;"></div></blockquote>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-28467589589450319052023-10-14T19:31:00.000-04:002023-10-14T19:31:03.767-04:00BSO — 2023/10/14<p>It looks like an unusual concert this evening. <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2023-09-13/yo-yo-ma-the-bso-and-shostakovich">WCRB tells us:</a></p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, October 14, 2023<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00pm</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Encore broadcast on Monday, October 23</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Yo-Yo Ma brings his unsurpassed passion to <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">both </i>of Shostakovich’s powerfully emotional cello concertos as part of the BSO’s multi-season survey of Shostakovich’s symphonies and concertos, and Haydn’s Symphony No. 22, nicknamed <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Philosopher</i>, is paired with Iman Habibi’s moving <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Zhiân</i> in a program led by Music Director Andris Nelsons.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Andris Nelsons, conductor </span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Yo-Yo Ma, cello </span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Joseph HAYDN Symphony No. 22, <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Philosopher </i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 2<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Iman HABIBI <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Zhiân </i>(BSO commission)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://theworld.org/media/2023-07-07/world-premiere-classical-work-inspired-protests-iran" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">Listen to The World's interview with Iman Habibi from earlier this year and learn the meaning behind <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Zhiân.</i></a></p></blockquote><p>The BSO performance detail page puts it this way:</p><blockquote><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Andris Nelsons, conductor <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Yo-Yo Ma, cello </strong></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">HAYDN Symphony No. 22, <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Philosopher</span> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 2<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Intermission</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Iman HABIBI <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zhiân</span> (Commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons, Music Director, through the generous support of the New Works Fund established by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Cellist Yo-Yo Ma brings his unsurpassed skill and passion to both of Shostakovich’s powerful cello concertos, originally written for the legendary Mstislav Rostropovich. These performances are part of the BSO’s multi-season survey of Shostakovich’s symphonies and concertos. Haydn’s stately Symphony No. 22, nicknamed <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Philosopher</span>, pairs with Iman Habibi’s <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zhiân</span>, a BSO commission, to round out the evening. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Saturday’s concert is supported by Lloyd Axelrod, M.D.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">The Friday Preview on October 13 at 12:15pm will be hosted by author and Northeastern emeritus professor Harlow Robinson with composer Iman Habibi. Admission included with ticket.</p></blockquote><p>As usual, there are links to the program notes, which could be interesting. You may also get some idea about the music from <a href="https://www.classical-scene.com/2023/10/13/yo-yo-shostakovich/">the review in the Intelligencer.</a> The Globe also has <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/13/arts/yo-yo-ma-makes-shostakovich-concertos-main-event-with-bso/?event=event12">a generally favorable review</a>, but questions the choice of Haydn to open the concert.</p><p>In general, I don't care for Shostakovich, and I don't hope for much from Zhiân. OTOH, the Haydn symphony is very enjoyable. If it were just a little earlier, I might skip it this evening and go to my club for dinner and plan to catch the rebroadcats on the 23rd. Anyway, I recommend the Haydn.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-27098881553598583382023-10-07T19:39:00.002-04:002023-10-07T19:42:36.415-04:00BSO — 2023/10/07<p> The Orchestra begins their subscription season in Symphony Hall this week after five months away. WCRB has chosen to give us a recording of the Friday afternoon concert (which I attended) rather than this evening's Opening Night Gala, which began at 6:00 p.m. It has a different second half: Duke Ellington's <i>New World A-Coming </i>for piano and Orchestra and Carlos Simon's <i>Four Black American Dances</i> instead of the Muskats and Strauss. IIRC, they played the Simon piece last season in Symphony Hall and again this summer at Tanglewood.</p><p>Anyway, here's <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2023-09-13/nelsons-and-buchbinder-open-the-bsos-23-24-season">WCRB's description:</a></p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, October 7, 2023<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00pm</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Andris Nelsons begins his 10th season as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director with works by Beethoven, Richard Strauss, and Arturs Maskats, as well as Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23, with soloist Rudolf Buchbinder.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Andris Nelsons, conductor</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Rudolf Buchbinder, piano</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Ludwig van BEETHOVEN <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Consecration of the House </i>Overture<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Arturs MASKATS Tango<i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Richard STRAUSS Suite from <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Der Rosenkavalier</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">(This concert is performed on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023)</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">To hear Rudolf Buchbinder talk with CRB's Brian McCreath about Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23, his most recent recording,<i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;"> </i><a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/artists/rudolf-buchbinder" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">Soirée de Vienne</a>, and more, use the player above and follow along with the transcript below.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">TRANSCRIPT:</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Brian McCreath </span>I'm Brian McCreath at Symphony Hall with Rudolf Buchbinder, back to begin the Boston Symphony's new season with Mozart's P</p></blockquote><p>The BSO's own <a href="https://www.bso.org/events/beethoven-mozart-maskats-strau?performance=2023-10-06-13:30">performance detail page</a> gives links to the program notes for each piece as well as performer bios and the following blurb:</p><blockquote><div class="event__info" style="align-items: center; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 40px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="event__info-text" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="event__info-brand" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Boston Symphony Orchestra</p><p class="event__venue" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.bso.org/venues/symphony-hall" style="border: 0px; box-shadow: inset 0 -1px 0 var(--c-text); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--c-text); cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color 0.2s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.1s ease 0s, color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Symphony Hall</a>, Boston, MA </p></div></div><div class="event__desc" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Zichtbaar, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 40px 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px !important; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Andris Nelsons, conductor <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Rudolf Buchbinder, piano</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">BEETHOVEN <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Consecration of the House Overture </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K.488<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Intermission</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Arturs MASKATS Tango <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />STRAUSS<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Suite from<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Der Rosenkavalier</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Ludwig van Beethoven’s masterful <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Consecration of the House </span>Overture raises the curtain on our season. Soloist Rudolf Buchbinder joins music director Andris Nelsons for Wolfgang Mozart’s light and lyrical Piano Concerto No. 23; Latvian composer Arturs Maskats’ <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tango</span>, a rich orchestral tribute to the dance, follows. The program closes with the theme from Richard Strauss’s 1911 opera <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Der Rosenkavalier</span>, another lilting waltz that lovingly evokes the grace and elegance of Mozart’s years in Vienna.</p></div></blockquote><p>There is<a href="https://www.classical-scene.com/2023/10/06/nelsons-and-the-bso-inaugurate-season-stunningly/"> a very favorable review</a> in the Intelligencer. I can't find anything about it in the Globe.</p><p>I enjoyed the performance, especially the first half, and while nothing was particularly earth-shattering or "revelatory," there's nothing that was unpleasant either. So I give it a solid thumbs up.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-21558661362843728452023-09-30T18:48:00.010-04:002023-09-30T18:48:44.817-04:00BSO/Classical New England — 2023/09/30<p> While we wait for the BSO to return to Symphony Hall, <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2022-11-11/sheku-kanneh-masons-bso-debut">WCRB gives us</a> another "encore broadcast," this time from last February:</p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, September 30th, 2023<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00pm</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">In an encore broadcast, British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes his Boston Symphony debut with Ernest Bloch’s <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Schelomo,</i> and Andris Nelsons conducts the world premiere of Carlos Simon’s <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Four Black American Dances </i>and Beethoven’s poetic Symphony No. 7.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Andris Nelsons, conductor</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Carlos SIMON <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Four Black American Dances</i> (world premiere)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Ernest BLOCH <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Schelomo: Rhapsodie hébraïque, </i>for cello and orchestra<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">This concert was originally broadcast on February 11th, 2023 and is no longer available on demand.</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">For information about Carlos Simon's <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Requiem for the Enslaved</i>, visit <a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://hubnewmusic.org/albums/requiem-for-the-enslaved" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">Hub New Music</a>.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">For information about Sheku Kanneh-Mason's <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Song</i>, visit <a class="Link" data-cms-ai="0" href="https://www.deccaclassics.com/en/catalogue/products/song-sheku-kanneh-mason-12725" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--linkColor); text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank">Decca</a>.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Listen to a preview of Bloch's <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Schelomo</i> with Sheku Kanneh-Mason with the audio player above, and read the transcript below.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">TRANSCRIPT:</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Brian McCreath </span>I'm Brian McCreath at Symphony Hall with Sheku Kanneh-Mason,</p></blockquote><p>I posted about it at the time, and I'm confident the links to the BSO page and the reviews still work. Since I hadn't heard the conce4rt previously, I couldn't give any impressions of my own, so those links are your best source for background information. My recollection is that I found it pleasant enough to listen to when I got to hear it. So you might as well listen this evening.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-50856748927142626122023-09-23T19:08:00.003-04:002023-09-23T19:08:18.601-04:00BSO/Classical New England — 2023/09/23<p> WCRB https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2022-11-10/the-symphony-hall-debuts-of-canellakis-and-benedetti-with-the-bso gives us another encore concert broadcast while the BSO is away and we wait for the Symphony Hall season to begin:</p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, September 23rd, 2023<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00 PM</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">In an encore broadcast, Karina Canellakis takes up her baton at Symphony Hall for the very first time in a folk-inspired Boston Symphony program that features Dvořák’s <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">The Wood Dove </i>and Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra, and Nicola Benedetti makes her BSO debut with Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 2.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Karina Canellakis, conductor</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Nicola Benedetti, violin</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Anton DVOŘÁK <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">The Wood Dove</i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Karol SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No. 2<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Witold LUTOSŁAWSKI Concerto for Orchestra</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">This concert was originally broadcast on January 21st, 2023 and is no longer available on demand.</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Hear a preview of the program with Karina Canellakis in the audio player above, and read the transcript below:</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT:</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Brian McCreath </span>I'm Brian McCreath at Symphony Hall with Karina Canellakis, who is here to conduct the Boston Symphony for the first time in this space, though, Karina, you have conducted the BSO a couple of times in the past. Thanks for a little bit of your time today.</p></blockquote><p>I posted about back in January, and although I wasn't enthusiastic about it, the good reviews led me to recommend listening. I have no reason to change that. I presume the links in my post still work.</p><p> Enjoy.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-58226857244854502642023-09-16T14:41:00.005-04:002023-09-16T14:41:34.557-04:00BSO/Classical New England — 2023/09/16<p> Return with us now to the thrilling days of earlier this year. Garrick Ohlsson rides again in an encore broadcast of the January 14 concert. <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2022-11-10/a-world-premiere-with-ohlsson-gilbert-and-the-bso#alan-gilbert-interview">WCRB tells us more:</a></p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, September 16th, 2023<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00 PM</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">In an encore broadcast, Alan Gilbert conducts the Boston Symphony in a program that includes Dvořák’s glittering <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Carnival </i>Overture and the world premiere of Justin Dello Joio’s Piano Concerto, <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Oceans Apart</i>, with soloist Garrick Ohlsson.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Alan Gilbert, conductor</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Garrick Ohlsson, piano</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Lili BOULANGER <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">D’un Matin de Printemps</i><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Wilhelm STENHAMMAR Serenade<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Justin DELLO JOIO Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Oceans Apart </i>(world premiere)<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Antonín DVOŘÁK <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Carnival</i> Overture</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">This concert was originally broadcast on January 14th, 2023 and is no longer available on demand.</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">To hear a preview of the program with conductor Alan Gilbert, listen with the audio player above and read the transcript in the tab below. To hear an interview with pianist Garrick Ohlsson, listen with the audio player below and read the transcript in the tab below:</p><div class="Enh" data-align-center="" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 50px auto; max-width: 700px; width: 700px;"><ps-tabs class="Tabs" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; position: relative;"><div class="Tabs-header" style="align-items: center; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><div class="Tabs-header-title" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primaryTextColor); font-family: var(--secHlFont),Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.18; position: relative; text-transform: capitalize; top: 2px; width: 700px;"><div class="Tabs-tabs" data-active="true" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--secC2); box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><a class="Tabs-tabs-tab" data-active="false" data-tab-id="garrick-ohlsson-interview" data-tab="" href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/#garrick-ohlsson-interview" role="tab" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-left-color: transparent; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: transparent; border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secC6); cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--bodyFont),Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 3.44; margin-bottom: -1px; padding: 0px 15px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; white-space: nowrap;">Garrick Ohlsson Interview</a><a class="Tabs-tabs-tab" data-active="true" data-tab-id="alan-gilbert-interview" data-tab="" href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/#alan-gilbert-interview" role="tab" style="background: var(--siteBgColor); border-color: var(--secC2); border-left-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secC6); cursor: pointer; font-family: var(--bodyFont),Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 3.44; margin-bottom: -1px; padding: 0px 15px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; white-space: nowrap;">Alan Gilbert Interview</a></div></div></div></ps-tabs></div></blockquote><p>This interviews with the soloist and conductor are linked on the station's page.</p><p>My post about it last January gives links to reviews and the BSO performance detail page, which could be good reading before or during the show. As I mentioned, I wasn't there for the earlier performance, and frankly I don't remember anything about it from whatever I colud hear broadcast. OTOH the Carnival Overture is pretty good. So you might as well listen in and see how you like it all.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-88279231551909547942023-09-09T18:03:00.005-04:002023-09-09T18:03:38.283-04:00BSO/Classical New England — 2023/09/09<p> This week's "encore concert" is a single work. <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2022-09-23/nelsons-the-boston-symphony-and-the-intensity-of-mahler">WCRB tells us:</a></p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Saturday, September 9th, 2022<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />8:00 PM</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">In an encore broadcast, the Boston Symphony scales the depth and breadth of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 led by Music Director Andris Nelsons.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Andris Nelsons, conductor</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Gustav MAHLER Symphony No. 6</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">This concert was originally broadcast on October 22nd, 2022 and is no longer available on demand.</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Andris Nelsons talks with CRB's Brian McCreath about Mahler's Sixth Symphony, how its emotional power is different from the Fifth Symphony, and how his interpretation of the piece has changed over the years. Also, Nelsons talks about the BSO's upcoming tour to Japan, which include, coincidentally two pieces with major roles for ... cowbells (Mahler's Sixth Symphony and Strauss's <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Alpine Symphony</i>). To listen, use the audio player above, and read the transcript below.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">TRANSCRIPT:</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Brian McCreath </span>I'm Brian McCreath at Symphony Hall with Andris Nelsons. And Andris, it's great to see you again and great to hear Mahler's Sixth Symphony. One of the the pieces that's a remarkable piece of music, but maybe, perhaps, less understood by audiences than other symphonies by Mahler. I'm curious about what draws you to Mahler's Sixth Symphony.</p></blockquote><p>If you go to the WCRB page you have the option of listening to the interview with Maestro Nelsons. If you have the time before the concert, that might be better than reading the transcript because, as I see in the transcript, there are several places where he sings a bit of the music to show what he's talking about.</p><p>I posted quite favorably about my experience hearing it two days earlier. The links in my post to the BSO page and the reviews are probably still working, so you can avail yourself of them to prepare for the show. I hope you'll enjoy it if you listen.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3479570551265368831.post-66750418536948735922023-09-02T18:38:00.000-04:002023-09-02T18:38:53.054-04:00BSO/Classical New England — 2023/09/02<p> The "encore broadcasts" continue. This week we get a chance to hear the concert of November 26, 2022. Here's the description <a href="https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2022-09-23/mussorgskys-pictures-with-rakitina-and-the-bso">from WCRB:</a></p><blockquote><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">In an encore broadcast, BSO Assistant Conductor Anna Rakitina conducts the suite from Elena Langer’s <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Figaro Gets a Divorce </i>and Mussorgsky’s <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Pictures at an Exhibition, </i>and Inon Barnatan is the soloist in the crown-jewel of Rachmaninoff’s works, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Anna Rakitina, conductor</span><br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Inon Barnatan, piano</span></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">Elena LANGER <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Figaro Gets a Divorce </i>Suite<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Sergei RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini<br style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;" />Modest MUSSORGSKY <i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Pictures at an Exhibition</i> (orch. Ravel)</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><i style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">This concert was originally broadcast on November 26th, 2022 and is no longer available on demand.</i></p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">In a conversation with CRB's Brian McCreath, pianist Inon Barnatan describes his love for Rachmaninoff's music, how the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini is unique among the composer's works for piano, and what he's learned as Music Director of the La Jolla SummerFest. To listen, use the player above, and read the transcript below.</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;">TRANSCRIPT:</p><p style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 20px auto; max-width: 700px;"><span style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box;">Brian McCreath </span>I'm Brian McCreath at Symphony Hall with Inon Barnatan, who is back with the BSO for the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, one of my favorite pieces by Rachmaninoff, and so, Inon, thanks a lot for your</p></blockquote><p>I wrote about it at the time, and the links in my post still work, so you can go there to read the review in the Intelligencer — unimpressed by the Langer, enthusiastic for the Rachmaninoff, and finding fault with the Mussorgsky. You can also see the program notes which are available at the BSO's performance detail page. The explanation of the pictures might make the Mussorgsky more understandable. The Globe ended up publishing <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/28/arts/bsos-all-russian-holiday/?p1=BGSearch_Overlay_Results">a favorable review</a> a few days after I posted.</p><p>So there you have it: two familiar pieces, one very well performed, after a newish item that's no great shucks. If my brother weren't going to call at the time, I'd be tempted to listen to the Rachmaninoff "Rhapsody," and follow the Red Sox game before and after that, but I don't think it'd be a big mistake to listen to the wole thing.</p>naturgesetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15268507379933286863noreply@blogger.com0