This week our music director is in Boston filling in for an ailing James Levine, and he’s conducting Mahler’s mighty Seventh Symphony. (Which will be streamed live on the internet at 7:00 p.m. EDT on April 10, 2010 – look for the “Listen Live” box on the left side of the site).
I’m very jealous. I’m also anxiously awaiting the OSO’s symphony of the season, this year it being the Symphony No. 1 “Titan”. I can’t wait!
Meanwhile, here’s a tasty bit of virtuoso playing from the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Abbado.
and here is the La Scala Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel doing the finale from Mahler’s First Symphony: