Perlman enthralls Tanglewood audience with Beethoven concerto
The penultimate concert of the BSO's 2004 Tanglewood season, featuring guest violinist Itzhak Perlman and conductor Charles Dutoit, was a spectacular one and could stand as a model against which to measure such events.
The orchestra was superb throughout the long evening and accross the broad musical geography mapped out by, first, Beethoven, then Stravinsky, and finally Ravel, musical explorers who charted courses according to their own celestial reckonings, on a night one could've navigated Stockbridge Bowl under the nigh-full barley moon. Read full review ...>