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It interesting… the WGBH juts broadcasted "Live" a debut of Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck with Boston's Symphony playing:

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Schnittke: Concerto grosso No. 5 for violin and orchestra with Gidon Kremer
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

I was as not able to listen form my office the whole broadcast but I did managed to ketch the Tchaikovsky Fifth.  I do not know… I think I begging to hate Boston Symphony again. The Firth movement was ruined and instead of juts listening my sick attention was jumping form one mistake to another. The Second Movement Mr. Honeck suddenly converted form radical supremacy into flowery mockery, after wish I jumped form my headphones and in order do not even listened the their movement. The last movement was also off the wall. Instead of the Tchaikovsky Fifth Manfred Honeck played a dialog between a German march for the unturned instruments and each instrumental group own vision of own tempo. I mean the entire movement was a oscillation between boredom of pure sonic irritation as when soon I was falling asleep some kind of idiot-trumpetest jump out of the orchestra and waked me up. In the end when Honeck somehow put them all together and tried to inject into music some American version of epic pathos into the closing coda the musical sounded juts as a putty irony.  I think this conductor and this orchestra should play soundtrack for The “Bravehard” but not the Tchaikovsky’s Fifth.

The polite Boston Symphony Hall visitors still applauded a little but very withdrawn. The quality of broadcast was very good. I am sure if the recording would be released publicly then it will make the HP’s “records to die for”

Rgs,
Romy the caT

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