Carnegie Hall opened its 2017-2018 season with a Gala honoring the centennial of Leonard Bernstein. Led by conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the program features the Philadelphia Orchestra and special guests Lang Lang, Chick Corea, and Maxim Lando.

Organized by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America brings together some of today’s most promising young musicians. Christoph Eschenbach leads the orchestra in a performance that features pianist Emanuel Ax as guest soloist.

Two of today’s most acclaimed pianists, Marc-André Hamelin and Leif Ove Andsnes, share the stage in a program of Mozart, Stravinsky, and Debussy.

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony in an all-Mahler program.

Hear works by three of contemporary music’s most influential figures, Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, and Steve Reich, performed by Elizabeth Lim-Dutton (violin), Todd Reynolds (violin), Lois Martin (viola), Jeanne Le Blanc (cello), and Michael Brown (piano).

Valery Gergiev conducts the Munich Philharmonic in a program that features pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard.

Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in a program that features pianist Rudolf Buchbinder.

Pianist Jonathan Biss is joined by the Brentano String Quartet (Mark Steinberg, violin; Serena Canin, violin; Misha Amory, viola; Nina Lee, cello) and violist Hsin-Yun Huang in a program that features the late style of some of history’s greatest composers.

Jordi Savall leads Hespèrion XXI joined by the Orthodox-Byzantine Vocal Ensemble, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Arpa Doppia, and Le Concert des Nations in a program that presents several centuries of music.