If I do not hear another performance of Mozart all season, I will be content to have last night’s performance of the Requiem from the Harris Theater singing in my head. Given a piece of such mythic baggage, written by one of the most mythologized composers in Western music, I suppose a performer’s urge to jump in and blow the roof off is tremendous, if only to live up to the hype.
Dvorak Symphony No. 6
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto
Vladimir Ovchinnikov, piano
Larry Rachleff, Conductor