Vanska makes muted NSO return with Brahms, but shines in Beethoven

Osmo Vanska is a very fine conductor. In recent years he's been at the center of one of the most upsetting and then most uplifting stories in the orchestra world: the Minnesota Orchestra's long lockout at the hands of its management (during which he resigned as music director in protest), followed by the Minnesota Orchestra's rebirth, in the course of which he returned as music director and, most recently, led them triumphantly at Carnegie Hall.