Last night was Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations and Beethoven's 4th symphony.

I do not care for the Rococo Variations, so it was mostly fairly boring for me. However the performance of the 4th symphony was superb. It was taken fairly close to Beethoven's metronome marks, but with a full blooded orchestra, with full vibrato, and lots of whacking on the timpani and VERY loud brass. The acoustic at Tanglewood obviously favors the brass big time. I do think that ultimately it will probably sound more boring in the live broadcast because I can imagine the engineers turning down the volume. The conductor was Dima Slobodeniouk, who I had never heard of before, but it really was a very good performance of Beethoven's 4th.