Birtwistle premiere - review

Symphony Hall, BostonRight at the end of Harrison Birtwistle's new Violin Concerto, which Christian Tetzlaff premiered with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, there was a weird, shimmering combination of sounds: a rattle of castanets, a static chord in the violas, and the melancholy song of Tetzlaff's solo line. It was a moment that was surreal, strange and moving.Birtwistle describes the concerto as a "dialogue" between the protagonists, with the orchestra as a Greek chorus made up of individual vo...

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