The Vienna Philharmonic with conductor Andris Nelsons plays Kurtág’s Petite musique solennelle, Mozart’s Symphony No. 36, and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 6, 8 p.m. Saturday; and Strauss’s Also sprach ...
Why is this work a masterpiece? That thought must have been on some minds as Ian Niederhoffer led Parlando in Georg Friedrich Haas’ in vain at Merkin Hall on Sunday afternoon.