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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - BOSTON, CHRISTMAS 2018

December 25, 2018 – 3:22 am

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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Andris Nelsons conducting
Boston 2018 [no label, 1CD]
Live at the Symphony Hall, Boston, Massachusetts; November 10, 2018. Very good WCRB HD-FM Boston broadcast).

Clemency Burton-Hill, bbc.com:

It’s as quintessentially Christmassy as mince pies, fir trees and carols. Right now, ballet companies all over the globe are presenting their take on Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet The Nutcracker, and families everywhere are planning their annual pilgrimage to see it. And not just balletomanes: for many people, this is the only time in the year they’d even contemplate spending money on going to the ballet, yet a Christmas without The Nutcracker – as one fan told me – “just wouldn’t be Christmas!”

Click here to find out how Tchaikovsky;s Nutcracker became a Christmas classic.

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The BSO and Andris Nelsons give the American premiere of Latvian composer Andris Dzenîtis’s orchestral work “Mâra”, a BSO co-commission with the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig. This is one of two works being performed by the BSO this season to mark the 100th anniversary of Latvian independence (declared November 18, 1918). Dzenîtis calls his new work, which is dedicated to Andris Nelsons and takes its title from a goddess in Latvian mythology, “the musical encoding of my personal understanding of what it means to be Latvian.”

Opening the program is Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1, to be recorded live as part of Andris Nelsons and the BSO’s multi-season exploration of the composer’s symphonies. Shostakovich wrote this symphony while he was still a student, and it immediately established him as one of Russia’s leading artistic figures. Completing the program is Act II of Tchaikovsky’s vibrant, beloved ballet score “The Nutcracker”, which includes the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” and the famous series of well-known exotic national dances from the popular “Nutcracker Suite.” - BSO

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Track 01. Radio Intro 4:20
Track 02. Radio Intro 0:27
Track 03. Andris Dzenitis - Mara 18:35
American premiere; BSO co-commission
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 - omitted
scheduled for official release
Track 04. Radio Outro 1:11
Track 05. Radio Intro 3:46

Tchaikovsky: “The Nutcracker”, Act II [1892]
Track 06. Radio Intro 0:19
Track 07. Nutcracker-II-01 9:10
Track 08. Nutcracker-II-02 3:46
Track 09. Nutcracker-II-03 1:10
Track 10. Nutcracker-II-04 1:09
Track 11. Nutcracker-II-05 2:40
Track 12. Nutcracker-II-06 2:40
Track 13. Nutcracker-II-07 6:53
Track 14. Nutcracker-II-08 5:21
Track 15. Nutcracker-II-09 0:46
Track 16. Nutcracker-II-10 2:29
Track 17. Nutcracker-II-11 1:21
Track 18. Nutcracker-II-12 5:03
Track 19. Radio Outro 2:08
74 mins

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