Jonathan McPhee and the Longwood Symphony perform Beethoven's Ninth
By JEFFREY GANTZ | October 10, 2007
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- Decent catch
The opening moments of Opera Boston’s new production of Les pêcheurs de perles set me up to expect an extraordinary evening.
- Transfigured nights
James Levine and the BSO resumed their Beethoven/Schoenberg series with superb performances of two pieces at the opposite ends of the Schoenberg spectrum.
- Amazing weekend
James Levine’s opening salvo for his year-long Beethoven/Schoenberg series with the Boston Symphony Orchestra couldn’t have been more ambitious: the work that opened Symphony Hall in 1900.
- Great gifts
Knussen’s interludes, barely seven minutes, are a complex but attractive mix of the seductively creepy and the intricately lively.
- Is there a pianist in the house?
Moved and excited by pianist Leon Fleisher in Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto with the Boston Symphony, I wanted to hear it again.
- Opening nightmare
It wasn’t as bad as what happened at Opening Night at the Pops last May, but it was still awful.
- The roar of the crowd
I wasn’t there, but the opening-night dissatisfaction with the Met’s new Tosca was widely reported.
- Anticipation
James Levine was back in front of the BSO after his Christmas break, and as good as at least one of the guest conductors.
- Classical giants
Audiences love the Beethoven Seventh. And this audience went bananas. But I didn’t.
- Magic bullets
Last week’s Boston Symphony Orchestra program looked odd on paper, but the concert was a knockout.
- Rise and fall
With its production of the Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Opera Boston consolidates its position as this city’s most exciting opera company.
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