| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 5-Apr-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Waves of Wagner: Gatti and DeYoung with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall |
 The Wagner bicentennial marches on, bringing grand sounds from practically every corner of the musical earth. What appear most frequently on concert programs are various extracts from the operas, such as the collection of preludes, overture, and vocal and orchestral excerpts offered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Daniele Gatti at Carnegie Hall. This kind of programming runs the risk of coming across as a tasty but haphazard smorgasbord; composer and musicologist Sir Donald Francis Tovey denounced these “bleeding chunks of butcher’s meat chopped from Wagner’s operas”.Read full review... | |
| 3-Apr-2013 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Boston Symphony Orchestra soars through Hindemith, Rachmaninov and Bartók |
 You might not think that a conductor nearing his 80th birthday and leading an orchestra from a swivel chair would be as effective as a conductor in full health, but you would be wrong. On Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall, the Boston Symphony Orchestra careened through a delightfully energetic performance led by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, a frequent guest conductor for this orchestra and several others across North America. Mr Frühbeck de Burgos, even while seated, drew crisp interpretations of three works composed within a thirteen-year span, from 1930 to 1943.Read full review... | |
| 7-Mar-2012 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | Boston Symphony Orchestra Revive the French Masters at Carnegie Hall |
 The first thing that caught my eye Wednesday night was the sheer size of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; they took up every inch of free space atop the Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall. So when the first note from Hector Berlioz’s Overture to Benvenuto Cellini rang out, the sound enveloped the hall, inserting itself into every nook and cranny.
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| 1-Dec-2011 Boston Symphony Hall | Harbison's Symphony no. 5 in Boston: A meditation on loss |
 There is an electric guitar on stage at Boston's Symphony Hall, and it is not a Pops concert.
John Harbison's Symphony no. 5 for baritone, mezzo-soprano and orchestra up-ends what we think of as a symphony, presenting the voice as an instrument and recalibrating the form.Read full review... | |
