The 2014 orchestral season opened triumphantly with an ending: the OSM’s last recording of its Beethoven cycle. It will be released on Analekta in Canada and Sony internationally next fall, after some sound engineering — Tuesday’s concert in the Maison symphonique began as an elegant struggle by musicians with the acoustic upper hand against a diseased audience dying to be polite. (
The ample corpse chutes hidden behind drapes on the corbeille are handy in this regard.)