Forming a pair with the May 9th performance, this one again featured Vladimir Feltsman in a Mozart piano concerto, and a Tchaikovsky symphony in the second half. Gerard Schwarz conducted.
The program opened with Mozart's Symphony No. 35. I have to admit I was rather bored, but not more so than I would have been listening to a great recording of the piece. It's just not a very great piece to my ears. I've never been very convinced of Mozart's later symphonies outside of the final three from the summer of 1788, No. 39, 40 and 41.
Once that was over the piano was moved on stage and Vladimir Feltsman returned for Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17. He displayed the same mastery of the music as he had the previous night in the 23rd. I'm not as familiar with this concerto as I am with the 23rd, but both Feltsman and the orchestra seemed to display a similar kind of skill and subtlety in the performance.
Towards the very end of the third movement of the concerto, the piano plays the main theme one last time almost as an afterthought, in a humorous, careless manner, and Feltsman drew that out by actually doing a very animated shrug right after the phrase ended. It was absolutely wonderful.
After intermission Schwarz conducted Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5. It was a performance on par with that of the Symphony No. 4 the night before. Brilliant, bold, fiery. It was such a privilege to hear these two symphonies back to back played at such a high level.
Next up is an all Shostakovich concert on May 17th!
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