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A perennially unsettling pair of complementary post-war masterpieces, conducted by Andrey Boreyko, and a moving return to London for Gidon Kremer. 

Violinist Gidon Kremer has championed the music of 20th-century Polish composer, Mieczysław Weinberg, whose music, influenced by Shostakovich, has so far been rarely heard. Here, Kremer performed the Violin Concerto.

A first performance of Weinberg for the NSO and a thoroughly fearsome Shostakovich Eighth.

Balance and transparency may have been in short supply elsewhere Friday afternoon, but not in Symphony Hall where Juanjo Mena led the Boston Symphony in a bracing program of works by Prokofiev, Weinberg and Tchaikovsky.The 26 year-old Prokofiev wrote the Symphony no.

Sergei Prokofiev’s Ouverture on Hebrew Themes is a 1919 work originally written for clarinet, string quartet and piano, although the composer himself orchestrated it in 1934.