Record news: Nelsons and Boston flash selfie
mainpress release:
The Boston Symphony Orchestra will release its first CD and digital download with Music Director Andris Nelsons on BSO Classics in early December, featuring Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture—the first piece Mr. Nelsons conducted as BSO Music Director—and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2, recorded from live performances during Andris Nelsons’ first few programs as the BSO’s new music director. Wagner’sTannhäuser Overture was recorded during Andris Nelsons’ inaugural concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on September 27, 2014, and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2 was recorded November 6-11, 2014.
Great News!!!The excerpts on the trailer are really very promising!!!Need to get that!
First there was Seidl, then the ‘also rans’ in the shape of Muck, Furtwängler and so on, but Andris is already three quarters of the way up the celestial ladder of Wagnerian immortality.
Oy!