Dan Zhu triumphs, Christoph Eschenbach conducts the BSO at Tanglewood in Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade after Plato’s Symposium and Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” by Michael Miller

Christoph Eschenbach leads the BSO with Dan Zhu at Tanglewood. Photo Hilary Scott.

Tanglewood Festival
Friday, July 20, 8:30 pm, Shed

Boston Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach, conductor
Dan Zhu, violin

Bernstein – Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium) for violin and orchestra
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”

I was looking forward to this concert to renew my acquaintance with this less familiar, but interesting work of Leonard Bernstein’s and in the expectation that Christoph Eschenbach and the BSO would give us an interesting “Pathétique” after Myung-Whun Chung’s fascinating, rather eccentric reading of last November.

However…

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