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[MUSIC REVIEW] BSO, Levine, Morlot, July 6-7
7.9.07
Tchaikovsky Brings News of Summer
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
Published: July 9, 2007
LENOX, Mass., July 8 — Summer festivals often feel like a blissful retreat from reality, the wonderful music in beautiful surroundings a respite from traffic jams, health care crises and terrorist threat levels.
But in his Fourth Symphony, Tchaikovsky reminds us such respites are temporary, that curmudgeonly Fate will invariably shatter the reverie and dump us unceremoniously back in the real world. On Friday, James Levine led the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a rousing performance of this work on opening night at Tanglewood, the orchestra’s artistically vibrant summer home.
Mr. Levine, who suffered a major shoulder injury last year, seemed in energetic good health and inspired vigorous, taut playing from the orchestra. There were plenty of alluring details, like glisteningly lithe descending woodwind scales in the first movement, an achingly bittersweet oboe melody in the second and elegantly shaped pizzicato lines in the Scherzo.
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