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Heady potpourri Lee, Shostakovich, Smetana and Yuja Wang at the Boston Symphony

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“Rolfs... was the irrepressible, disrespectful adolescent to Wang’s often exasperated adult”
Reviewed at Symphony Hall, Boston on 4 October 2019
Lee III, Sukkot Through Orion's Nebula
Shostakovich, Piano Concerto no. 1 in C minor for piano, trumpet and string orchestra, Op.35
Smetana, Má vlast: Vltava (The Moldau) (excerpts)
Smetana, Má vlast: Z českých luhů a hájů (From Bohemia's Woods and Fields)
Smetana, Má vlast: Blaník
Yuja Wang, Piano
Thomas Rolfs, Trumpet
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, Conductor
Herbert Blomstedt conducts Brahms with the Boston Symphony
*****
An earthbound Missa Solemnis from Boston Symphony Orchestra
***11
Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony perform Debussy and Mahler
***11
As usual, Beethoven ushers out the BSO season at Tanglewood
***11
A galactic adventure at Tanglewood: Kazuki Yamada and The Planets
****1
Yo-Yo Ma luxuriates in warm Saint-Saëns at Tanglewood
****1
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