Haitink, BSO more stolid than stirring in Brahms and Schumann

Bernard Haitink conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall

The Boston Symphony Orchestra will have to wait another year before appearing in New York with their new, young music director Andris Nelsons.  In the meantime, they opened their 2014 Carnegie Hall stand on Tuesday under the baton of their old friend Bernard Haitink, and while they have rarely sounded more polished, youthful vigor seemed to be exactly what was missing.

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