PORTLAND — The well-attended concert of the Portland Symphony Orchestra Tuesday night at Merrill Auditorium was an object lesson in the superiority of live versus recorded music.
Beginning with the Brahms “Schicksalsleid” (Opus 54), with orchestra and chorus conducted by Robert Russell, through the strange and wonderful “Gloria” of Francis Poulenc, to the final masterpiece of orchestration, Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade,” (Opus 35), the audience experienced tonal effects, dynamics and orchestral colors that cannot be heard outside the concert hall.
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