The New York Philharmonic This Week

July 23, 2026

July 9, 2026

Jaap van Zweden served as the 26th Music Director of the New York Philharmonic from 2018 to 2024. Enjoy recordings featuring the New York Philharmonic and the renowned Dutch conductor.

June 25, 2026

While many composers have set the Catholic funeral mass to music, rare are the ones who have dedicated entire requiems to a fellow artist. Verdi was inspired to write his requiem after the death of Italian writer Alessandro Manzoni in 1873. The resulting work is in 7 parts and features multiple soloists throughout. It even includes parts for female singers ...

June 11, 2026

Contrasting two smoldering works that burst with energy and movement. First, it’s Julia Wolfe’s oratorio for girls’ choir, womens’ choir, and orchestra called Fire in my mouth. Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, the piece was inspired by the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911. Then later, the eighth symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich.

May 28, 2026

Scenes of idyllic, English pastures have captured the imaginations of many composers worldwide over the centuries. Tonight, we look at two compositions inspired by such sights, and later, music Bartók had written for a fairytale.

May 14, 2026

The sixth symphony of Gustav Mahler is one of the composer’s darkest works. It is moody, simultaneously combative and fragile, and contains one of orchestral music’s most iconic unorthodox instruments – a giant wooden mallet. The Symphony no. 6 is a fascinating work which has been interepreted by many of the world’s greatest orchestras and conductors. On display tonight is ...

April 30, 2026

When Lorin Maazel retired from his seven year tenure with the New York Philharmonic in 2009, he led the ensemble through one final masterpiece: Gustav Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. The monumental work employed the combined forces of the New York Philharmonic, New York Choral Artists, The Dessoff Choirs, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Guests soloists were seperated by sex and stationed ...

April 16, 2026

One of Felix Mendelssohn’s largest works, Elijah is an oratorio bringing to life the story of the Prophet Elijah from the Old Testament. The work is scored for multiple vocal soloists. In this recording, Joseph Flummerfelt leads the New York Choral Artists, featuring guest vocalists Twyla Robinson, Alice Coote, Allan Clayton, Gerald Finley, Jennifer Johnson, and Benjamin P. Wenzelberg.

April 2, 2026

French classical pianist Philippe Entremont stars in an old recording of Bartók’s 3rd piano concerto, with conductor Leonard Bernstein at the helm. Later, a lesser known work by African-American composer William Grant Still is paired alongside a giant in orchestral music repertoire: Tchaikovsky’s Symphony “Pathétique.”