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The New York Philharmonic with music director Jaap van Zweden (Photo: Chris Lee)
From Lincoln Center, hear one of the country's most celebrated orchestras.
The New York Philharmonic This Week, hosted by Alec Baldwin, features recent performances and commercial recordings, complimented by interviews with the artists highlights from the NY Phil’s archives. The nationally syndicated program has garnered numerous awards and reaches millions of listeners every year.
A celebration of the Young People’s Concerts
October 17, 2024, 10:00 pm
A retrospective on Leonard Bernstein’s revolutionary concert series, which introduced countless listeners to classical music. And Jamie Bernstein, daughter of the influential conductor-composer, reflect on her father’s legacy.
Webern, Schoenberg, & Ives
October 10, 2024
Alan Gilbert leads music by three fascinating 20th century composers.
Maazel conducts Messiaen, Mendelssohn, and Beethoven
October 3, 2024
Respected conductor Lorin Maazel welcomes violinist Maxim Vengerov for Mendelssohn’s violin concerto plus music by Messiaen and Beethoven.
Mexican and Spanish Composers
September 26, 2024
Music of Mexican composers Carlos Chávez and Manuel Ponce, plus Spaniard Manuel de Falla conducted by Leonard Bernstein, José Serebrier, and Pierre Boulez. Hear soloists Sharon Isbin (guitar) Jan DeGaetani (mezzo-soprano), and Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano).
Wagner, Tchaikovsky, and Adolphe
September 19, 2024
Jaap van Zweden leads a mixed-repertoire program that spotlights the Philharmonic’s long-serving principal violist Cynthia Phelps.
Alan Gilbert Conducts Beethoven and Mark-Anthony Turnage
September 12, 2024
Former Music Director Alan Gilbert leads the orchestra, chorus, and soloists in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. The program opens with the U.S. premiere of Frieze, a New York Philharmonic Co-Commission composed by Mark-Anthony Turnage.
Nathan Milstein Plays Mendelssohn
September 5, 2024
A 1945 recording of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, featuring conductor Bruno Walter and soloist Nathan Milstein who performed more than 70 concerts with the Orchestra.
French Works with Boulez, and Bernstein at the Keyboard
August 29, 2024
In this broadcast, we hear Pierre Boulez conduct three French works: the score to the ballet La Péri by Paul Dukas, the Symphony No. 3 by Roussel, and the Mother Goose suite by Ravel. We’ll also hear Leonard Bernstein lead a performance of Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto from the keyboard.
Giuseppe Sinopoli Conducts Strauss
August 22, 2024
On this episode of The New York Philharmonic This Week, we hear two of the seventeen recordings made by Giuseppe Sinopoli and the New York Philharmonic in the 1980s: Also sprach Zarathustra and Tod und Verklärung by Richard Strauss. Between those two works, we will hear Haydn’s Harmoniemesse as recorded by Leonard Bernstein in 1973.
Soloists of the New York Philharmonic
August 15, 2024
A special program featuring five of the Orchestra's principal players as concerto soloists in music by Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, William Bolcom, Julia Adolphe, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Bernstein Conducts Bernstein
August 8, 2024
Former Philharmonic Archivist and Historian Barbara Haws, and the composer's daughter, Jamie Bernstein, are featured guests in this episode.
Ballet Music by Ravel and Tchaikovsky, with Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto
August 1, 2024
Alan Gilbert conducts works by Ravel, Nielsen, and Tchaikovsky.
“Phil Firsts” – World Premieres by the New York Philharmonic
July 25, 2024
Including highlights from Dvořák, Copland, and Corigliano.
Stravinsky at the Philharmonic
July 18, 2024
Including performances conducted by the composer himself.
Mussorgsky, Borodin, Kancheli, and Shostakovich
July 11, 2024
Featuring conductors Leonard Bernstein and Kurt Masur.
American Musical Treasures Conducted by Rodgers and Bernstein
July 4, 2024
This week’s commercial record program opens with the medley from Victory at Sea composed by Richard Rodgers and orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennet for a documentary series about World War II. Leonard Bernstein is the conductor of Aaron Copland’s heroic Third Symphony, followed by The Airborne Symphony by Marc Blitzstein.
Kurt Masur Conducts Beethoven and Bruckner
June 13, 2024
On this New York Philharmonic broadcast, Beethoven’s first symphony will be followed by Symphony No. 7 in E major by Anton Bruckner. Kurt Masur is the conductor on this program and Alec Baldwin is your host.
Andrew Davis Conducts Saint-Saëns’s “Organ” Symphony
June 6, 2024
Sir Andrew Davis leads the Philharmonic in a charming pair of French works in this concert from the 2009-10 season.
Aaron Copland Conducts The Tender Land
May 30, 2024
Aaron Copland leads the orchestra in an abridged version of his opera The Tender Land, recorded in 1965.
