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      New York Philharmonic This Week with Host Alec Baldwin

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      New York Philharmonic This Week
      with Host Alec Baldwin

      Thursdays at 8:00 pm

      An avid music-lover, Alec Baldwin lends his Emmy Award and Tony Award-winning style to one of music's great institutions. Since its founding in 1842, the New York Philharmonic has been the apex for composers, soloists and conductors alike. Bringing to bear that 170-year history, The New York Philharmonic This Week offers the highest musicianship, insight and vision in every program.

      About the Music Director

      New York Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert

      When he succeeded Lorin Maazel as music director in 2009, Alan Gilbert became the first native New Yorker to head the Philharmonic, and is among the youngest music directors in the orchestra's 170-year history. He serves as Director of Conducting and Orchestral Studies at the Juilliard School and as Conductor Laureate to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

      This exciting broadcast venture is underwritten with support from Credit Suisse, global sponsor of the New York Philharmonic, and with generous support from the Kaplen Foundation and the Audrey Love Charitable Foundation; the Philharmonic's corporate partner, MetLife Foundation; and the National Endowment for the Arts.

      Program Schedule

      March 28, 2013

      CONDUCTOR: Alan Gilbert

      SOLOIST: Lang Lang, piano

      LINDBERG: Feria
      BARTOK: Piano Concerto No 2
      PROKOFIEV: Symphony No 5

      April 4, 2013

      CONDUCTOR: Alan Gilbert

      MAHLER: Symphony No 6 in A Minor, Tragic

      April 11, 2013

      A retrospective of Philharmonic recordings of Spanish and Latin-American music.

      CONDUCTORS: Leonard Bernstein; José Serebrier; Pierre Boulez

      SOLOISTS: Sharon Isbin, guitar; Jan Deaetani, mezzo-soprano; Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano

      CHAVEZ: Sinfonia India (recorded 1961)
      PONCE: Concierto de sur (recorded 2004)
      FALLA: The Three-Cornered Hat (recorded 1975)
      FALLA: El Amor Brujo (recorded 1976)

      April 18, 2013

      CONDUCTOR: Alan Gilbert

      SOLOIST: Yefim Bronfman, piano

      PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No 2
      RACHMANINOFF: Symphony No 2

      April 25, 2013

      CONDUCTOR: David Robertson

      SOLOIST: Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

      MESSIAEN: Les Offrandes Oubliées: Méditation symphonique pour orchestra (The Forgotten Offerings: Symphonic Meditation for Orchestra)
      MOZART: Piano Concerto No 23 in A Major, K 488
      Tristan MURAIL: Piano Concerto (US premiere; New York Philharmonic co-commission with Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Seoul Philharmonic)
      BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 2

      May 2, 2013

      CONDUCTOR: Alan Gilbert

      SOLOIST: Joshua Bell, violin

      ROUSE: Prospero’s Rooms (World premiere, New York Philharmonic commission)
      BERNSTEIN: Serenade after Plato’s Symposium
      IVES: Symphony No 4

      May 9, 2013

      CONDUCTOR: Alan Gilbert

      SOLOIST: Emanuel Ax, piano

      MOZART: Piano Concerto No 25 in C Major, K 503
      BRUCKNER: Symphony No 3

      May 16, 2013

      CONDUCTOR: Masaaki Suzuki

      SOLOISTS: Sherezade Panthaki, Soprano; Joélle Harvey, Soprano; Iestyn Davies, Countertenor; Nicholas Phan, Tenor; Tyler Duncan, Baritone; Bach Collegium Japan, chorus; Yale Schola Cantorum, chorus

      BACH: Motet, Singet dem Hern
      MENDELSSOHN: Magnificat in D major
      MENDELSSOHN: Christus
      BACH: Magnificat

      May 23, 2013

      CONDUCTOR: Alan Gilbert

      SOLOISTS: Dorothea Röschmann, soprano
      Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano
      Steve Davislim, tenor
      Eric Owens, bass-baritone
      New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director

      BACH: Mass in B Minor

      May 30, 2013

      CONDUCTOR: Bernard Labadie

      SOLOIST: Isabelle Faust, violin

      BACH: Orchestra Suite No 4
      BACH: Violin Concerto in E major
      BACH: Sinfonia from Cantata No 42
      BACH: Violin Concerto in A minor
      BACH: Orchestra Suite No 3

      June 6, 2013

      CONDUCTOR: Andras Schiff

      SOLOIST: Andras Schiff, piano

      BACH: Keyboard Concerto in F Minor
      MENDELSSOHN: String Symphony No 9 in C Major
      BACH: Keyboard Concerto in D Major
      SCHUMANN: Symphony No 4

      June 13, 2013

      CONDUCTORS: Alan Gilbert, Case Scaglione

      SOLOISTS: Wynton Marsalis, trumpet; Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra; Marc Nuccio, clarinet

      STRAVINSKY: Ragtime for 11 Instruments
      SHOSTAKOVICH: Tahiti Trot
      COPLAND: Clarinet Concerto
      MARSALIS: Swing Symphony (Symphony No 3)

      June 20, 2013

      CONDUCTOR: Alan Gilbert

      SOLOISTS: Lisa Batiashvili, violin; Patricia Racette, soprano; Gerard Finley, bass-baritone; Peter Hoare, tenor; William Ferguson, tenor; Sidney Outlaw, baritone; Collegiate Chorale, James Bagwell, director

      PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No 1
      DALLAPICCOLA: Il Prigioniero

      June 27, 2013

      CONDUCTOR: Lionel Bringuier

      SOLOIST: Leonidas Kavakos, violin

      DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
      PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No 2
      KODALY: Dances of Galanta
      STRAVINSKY: The Firebird Suite (1919)