“A classical critic’s No.1 choice for the coming summer has to be conductor Andris Nelsons’ two weekends of concerts at Tanglewood,” writes Andrew Pincus in Wednesday’s (6/4) Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) “This will be the Berkshires’ first in-depth look at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s new music director. Appointed last year, he officially takes over in September…. The 35-year-old Latvian’s four programs are highlighted by a gala, half with BSO and half with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. With three Met-level soprano soloists, the student orchestra will perform in excerpts from Strauss’ ‘Rosenkavalier.’ ” The four programs led by Nelsons will include music by Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, and Christopher Rouse. At Tanglewood, Pincus also notes upcoming BSO performances of Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony led by Christoph von Dohnanyi, as well as multiple student performances at Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall, which will also host performances of Jack Beeson’s opera Lizzie Borden by the Boston Lyric Opera and Jeremy Denk’s performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations paired with Ives’s “Concord” Sonata. The article surveys summer classical performances elsewhere in western Massachusetts, including at the early-music festival Aston Magna in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and Tannery Pond Concerts, featuring chamber music, in nearby New Lebanon, New York.
Posted June 6, 2014
