Beautiful sounds and feelings. Shostakovitch's Ninth Symphony, which came at the end of this concert, is a kind of send up. The world is a mock up, part military band, part fair ground. The huge orchestra slithers high up into stratospheric fun images, then plumps to dinosaur-footed rude brass noises. The flutes and woodwinds carry much of the music, which is never solid or heavy-handed.
Tunes shoot up and out to no avail.
You've had your fun, now pay for it. But the pay-off never comes. The symphony sort of dries up suddenly. This Ninth Symphony is disturbing.