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...oboe duet and the deep rumblings of the timpani near the end of the first movement--think of the T running underneath the building all of you Wigg residents. The same all-encompassing, electrifying force galvanized listeners throughout the furious oscillation of the second movement's sometimes lamenting, sometimes triumphant phrases...
...third movement is probably the best known part of the concerto. Like the first, it begins on a sorrowful note that quickly changes to embrace a triumphant mood. The whimsical theme carried by the violin and the flutes is probably among the concerto's most difficult passages, and both Shaham and the woodwinds carried it off with carefree finesse...
...mood of triumphant brightness in Symphony Hall quickly changed at the start of Anton Bruckner's brooding Ninth Symphony, which comprised the second half of the concert. An ominous and disturbing work, it swings violently from melancholy introspection to frenzied passages which verge on hysteria. Bruckner started writing this Symphony during what was probably the lowest ebb of his confidence in his own work. The publisher who had promoted and loved his tremendously successful Seventh Symphony had recently told Bruckner that his Eighth Symphony was incomprehensible. After this criticism, Bruckner spent most of his time trying to revise his older...
...haunting unison violin theme opens the surprising third movement. It is rare--and disarming--to hear so many violins play without accompaniment; the effect is unforgettable. Triumphant moments are genuine, as if Bruckner had finally broken out of his pervasive bad mood. A soothing calm wells up at the end of the piece, which ends almost imperceptibly. One can only imagine that the fourth movement would have united the disparate themes and expressed his final resolution...
...concert like this one--emotionally exhausting yet triumphant in its utter sincerity--heals a concertgoer's cynicism. It reminds one that going to Symphony is more than pomp and pretension, that performance is an act of liberation and that great music still lies at its center...