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...upon high woodwind accompaniment, providing colorful interludes between the serene string passages. In a slight lull, the ensemble reached a plateau halfway through and wandered a little too much under Luisi’s distinctly European conducting, with more reserved gestures as its stylistic marker. The absence of the BSO??s regular concertmaster may also have contributed to a rather half-hearted string ensemble...
...while the clarinet soloist’s plaintive phrasing complemented the ebb and flow of Bartok’s meticulously constructed tempo lines. The suite ended in a roar of climactic dissonance that even Sung, whose conservative conducting had constricted the other pieces, could not help but encourage. The BSO??s take on Bartok was proof of the artistic talent of each BSO member and their collective caliber as an ensemble. One just wonders why it took three pieces for this top-notch orchestra to warm up and start playing...
...Last-minute replacement Julian Kuerti—now in his second season as the BSO??s assistant conductor—led the orchestra in a clean performance of Brahms’s “Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel.” The brass section’s muddled sounds in the opening harmonies set the BSO off to a shaky start. Following the two introductory phrases, Kuerti eased into the set of 25 variations and a fugue, orchestrated by British composer Edmund Rubbra...
This year marks the 128th season of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), making it one of the oldest and most celebrated symphonies in the United States. In celebration of the anniversary, James Levine, the BSO??s Music Director since 2003, has commissioned several works to world premiere with the BSO. On Friday afternoon, he led the orchestra through Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 6,” a world premiere of Leon Kirchner’s “The Forbidden,” and Robert Schumann?...
...Loeb Professor of the Humanities Joshua N. Fineberg says that the BSO??s success in recruiting youth will rely largely on the number of unconventional pieces they play, not necessarily the events they hold in the community. He says the orchestra has shown noticeable improvement in this area since Levine gained the conductor’s podium...