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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.
Summer Medley
July 16, 2026, 10:00 pm
Strauss’s Don Quixote
July 23, 2026, 10:00 pm
Lenny’s Playlist, Part I
July 30, 2026, 10:00 pm
All-Bach Program with Bernard Labadie and Isabelle Faust
January 20, 2023
As part of a festival celebrating the music of JS Bach in 2013, Isabelle Faust made her debut with the New York Philharmonic.
Leonard Bernstein Conducts Haydn’s The Creation
January 13, 2023
Soprano Judith Raskin, tenor Alexander Young, baritone John Reardon, and the Camerata Singers are featured in this 1966 performance of Haydn’s The Creation.
An All-American New Year’s Eve: Thomas Hampson Sings Copland and Porter
January 6, 2023
As the Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, baritone Thomas Hampson joined the Philharmonic in 2009 for an American New Year’s Eve celebration.
Masaaki Suzuki Conducts Choral Works by Bach and Mendelssohn
December 30, 2022
Masaaki Suzuki made his NY Phil debut leading Magnificats by Bach and Mendelssohn.
Yefim Bronfman Plays Mozart
December 23, 2022
Pianist Yefim Bronfman joins music director Jaap van Zweden and the NY Phil to play Mozart’s 22nd Piano Concerto before we hear Bruckner’s 7th Symphony.
Handel’s Messiah
December 16, 2022
The New York Philharmonic’s annual presentation of Handel’s Messiah is one of its most loved traditions.
Winter Holiday Playlist
December 9, 2022
A selection of winter-themed highlights from the New York Philharmonic’s storied discography.
Jaap van Zweden Conducts Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky
December 2, 2022
Music Director Jaap van Zweden conducts selections from Sergei Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Suites Nos. 1 and 2, followed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s melody-rich Symphony No. 5.
English Folk Tunes & The Wooden Prince
November 25, 2022
'70s recordings of music by Britten, Schuman, and Bartók.
Tao and van Zweden Perform Debussy, Mozart, and Respighi
November 18, 2022
Conrad Tao presents a thrilling performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17, with a special encore rendition of Billy Strayhorn's jazz standard "Lush Life."
Thomson, Milhaud, and Mahler
November 4, 2022
Conductors Leonard Bernstein and Georg Solti; mezzo-soprano Irmgard Seefried.
“There, in the Night”
October 28, 2022
In the spirit of All Hallows’ Eve, we bring you a playlist of favorite works spawned from midsummer nights, an enchanted lake, and a moon described as a floating white tomb.
Leonard Rose Performs Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1
October 21, 2022
Leonard Rose was the Principal Cello of the New York Philharmonic from 1943 to 1951; in the final year of his tenure he recorded Saint-Saëns’ First Cello Concerto, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos.
Julia Wolfe’s Fire in my mouth
October 14, 2022
Jaap van Zweden conducts Julia Wolfe’s Grammy-nominated composition Fire in my mouth, a dramatic account of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 and the fight for workplace rights for immigrant women.
A Sibelius Sojourn
October 7, 2022
This week’s broadcast is dedicated to the music of the great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.
Dohnányi Conducts Brahms and Schumann
September 30, 2022
Pianist Paul Lewis is the soloist in Johannes Brahms’ stormy Piano Concerto No. 1. Christoph von Dohnányi also conducts the Second Symphony by Robert Schumann, Brahms’ protégé.
Bach’s Mass in B minor
September 23, 2022
“There is a sense of monumentality, perfection, and universality of message that puts the B-minor Mass in a category by itself,” wrote Alan Gilbert of J.S. Bach’s masterpiece.
Bell and van Zweden
September 16, 2022
Joshua Bell joins the New York Philharmonic and Jaap van Zweden in a performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. Also on this program is Duo Ye by Chinese-American composer Chen Yi and the Pulcinella Suite by Igor Stravinsky.
Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Simone Young
September 9, 2022
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the first Black musician to win the BBC Young Musician Award, is the soloist in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto on this week’s Simone Young-conducted program.
