Sunday afternoon at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge: the Boston Philharmonic presented a really wonderful all-Russian program. It started with the overture to Ruslan and Ludmila – brisk and invigorating. Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 was spiky, menacing and fun. For an encore pianist Jue Wang played a swirling solo arrangement of Gershwin's "Embraceable You." Simply gorgeous.
The musicians were primed and in their wheelhouse for the second half of the progam. Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 was an intoxicating flood of melody. Conductor Benjamin Zander milked its romanticism and lifted the roof in the finale. I'm exhausted!
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