At yesterday's Victoria Symphony concert their new Principal Guest
Conductoir (a 27-year old called Yannick Nezet-Seguin, a name to watch)
announced that they would be playing the second movement of Brahms 1 in
the recently reconstructed original version and that this as far as he
knew only the 2nd performance in N America.
Does anyone know anything about this? They had not announced it previously
and it wasn't mentioned in the programme notes. A quick web search
revealed nothing.
Although the music had the same themes anbd same overall shape there
were a few spots where, for those of us who know the music very well,
it was very disconcerting: hamornies and orchestration were very different
in place.
I wonder who did the reconstructiuon (and when) and why it was necessary.
Deryk Barker
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