Again this week the encore broadcast is taken from last year's Tanglewood season. Most of it is the concert of July 14, but it is supplemented by one piece from the concert of July 8. Here's WCRB's synopsis:
Saturday, May 17, 2025
8:00 PMAugustin Hadelich is the soloist in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in a Boston Symphony concert led by Andris Nelsons that also features Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 and Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Forward Into Light, a meditation on “perseverance, bravery, and alliance.”
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violinSarah KIRKLAND SNIDER Forward into Light
Sergei PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Ballade in A minor (Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Na'Zir McFadden, conductor, recorded on July 8, 2024)
Antonín DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 7This concert was originally broadcast on July 14, 2024, and is no longer available on demand.
The program notes for the three works on the July 14 concert are available on the performance detail page for that concert. https://www.bso.org/events/snider-prokofiev-dvorak?performance=2024-07-14-14:30 That page also provides the following overall description:
Tanglewood
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violinSarah Kirkland SNIDER Forward into Light
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 7
Written as part of the NY Philharmonic’s “Project 19” — which commissioned 19 female composers to write new works commemorating the ratification of the 19th Amendment — Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Forward Into Light is a meditation on “perseverance, bravery, and alliance.” The title is derived from a suffrage slogan, and the music contains quotes from the woman’s suffrage movement anthem, “March of the Women.”
Grammy-winner Augustin Hadelich rounds out the program with Prokofiev’s intense Violin Concerto No. 2, and Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 – sometimes called the composer's greatest symphony.
I can't find a performance detail page for the Coleridge-Taylor piece, but most of his music is good.
The Globe reviewer was happy with the July 14 concert; the Intelligencer didn't review it.
I wrote about the July 14 concert back then, and I think it should be worth listening to along with the interpolation from the 8th.
P.S. Next weekend, WCRB will give us four evenings of rebroadcasts: the full cycle of Beethoven symphonies from last winter. They'll begin with Nos. 1, 2, and 3 on Friday evening of the long weekend, followed by 4 and 5 on Saturday, 6 and 7 on Sunday, and 8 and 9 on Monday, all at 8"00 p.m. Boston Time.
