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Because so few conductors look beyond the tried-and-true favorites among Mozart’s symphonies, it’s rare to encounter in the concert hall any of the composer’s symphonies that we haven’t already heard. For his final concerts of the BSO’s 2008-09 subscription season, Music Director James Levine—who recorded all of Mozart’s symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic in the 1980s—leads three programs that offer a mix of early and middle Mozart symphonies—some of them never previously played by the BSO—followed by the great final trilogy of the symphonies 39, 40, and the Jupiter. This week’s two programs—the first on February 12 and 13, the second on February 14 and 17—offer a mix of works that show Mozart using and expanding upon the musical and stylistic trends of predecessors and contemporaries as he made the symphony his own. These concerts will be followed on February 19, 20, and 21 with Mozart’s last three symphonies, performed in a single program.

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I did not get tickets, well, leaving a few blocks from symphony Hall I can always get them. I think it will be sold out but I in many instance enjoy the drama of getting the tickets at “the door”. However, when the season was announced I had a hesitation to go for Levine’s Mozart program.

Do not take me wrong. I do appreciate the Levine’s Mozart and some of the things that Levine did in MET it was the best operatic Mozart I ever heard. Still, I have a very straggle supposition, perhaps the stupid one, which many great musicians have re-discovered on ability to play Mozart with a “different level” of understanding right before the end of their career.  So, considering the Mr. Levine health I kind of cautious with my desire for the February Mozart program to turn out to be a “revelation”… So, I will be listening and record it but I do not know how to leverage my expectation to it.

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