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...summer concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) at Tanglewood have made a practice of bringing together exceptional performers. Last Saturday's program was no exception, as André Previn and Emanuel Ax joined the orchestra...
Ravel's "Tombeau de Couperin" suite opened the program by exhibiting the best qualities of today's BSO. Under Music Director Seiji Ozawa's baton, the orchestra always excels in the playing of modern French masterworks. Add to that experience the wit and insight of Previn, and the result cannot help but please...
...opening of the Forlane was not as jarring in its jubilation as one might have hoped. In fact, it almost forecast the easy-going promenade that composed the middle of the movement. That section best demonstrated the BSO's ability to sound civilized and serene, hovering lightly in a soft dynamic register...
...BSO delivered the third movement's fluid onset, a walking clarinet line with string accompaniment much like the third movement of his Clarinet Quintet, with serenity and warmth. The brass sounded a bit jumbled in the tutti, but Haitink brought the movement to a clean closure...
...BSO could certainly gain immense quality and repertoire from a music director of Haitink's skills. It's true that Seiji Ozawa hasn't been talking about retirement, but Haitink gave the orchestra glimpses of Herbert von Karaian's Berlin Philharmonic, Carlos Kleiber's Vienna Philharmonic and George Szell's Cleveland Orchestra. If they could also strengthen their sound with a few more powerful players, the BSO would catapult itself back to the stature it knew under Charles Munch--that of the foremost symphony in the nation...