Nelsons’ reading highlighted the music’s play of light and shadow vividly, the quiet spots in the Symphony’s outer movements ...
As far as Beethoven was concerned, his Sixth Symphony is self-explanatory. “Anyone who has the faintest idea of rural life,” the composer offered, “will have no need of descriptive titles”—though, ...
Not every night does the music of Beethoven conjure the words and sentiments of Mahatma Gandhi, E. M. Forster, and Louis Spohr. Then again, not every evening at Symphony Hall proves so stimulating as ...