NEGLECTED JEWEL AT THE OAKLAND SYMPHONY
Cherubini Requiem, Alongside New Piccolo Concerto OAKLAND—In symphony concerts, give me the thrill of discovery every time. The Oakland Symphony offered not one but two revelations in a single concert, one very old, the other very new. When, if ever, have you heard a piccolo concerto? Or Cherubini’s Requiem of 1816? Never? Me neither. But then, I’ve only reviewed some 6,500 concerts lifetime. The Italian-French composer Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842) was a stodgy symphonist of the early romantic era. In his…