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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.
Maxim Vengerov
August 27, 2026, 10:00 pm
A variety of works conducted by a former Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel, including a recording of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto featuring Maxim Vengerov.
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.
Trifonov and van Zweden
September 2, 2022
In this broadcast of the opening concert of the 2021-22 Season, Daniil Trifonov joins music director Jaap van Zweden as soloist in Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto.
Vivaldi, Hindemith, Mozart, and Paine
August 26, 2022
A mixed-rep program featuring conductors Zubin Mehta, Leonard Bernstein, and Christopher Hogwood and instrumental soloists Mindy Kaufmann (piccolo) and Judith LeClair (bassoon).
Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis
August 19, 2022
A mixed-rep program featuring Leonard Bernstein, Bruno Walter, Christine Brewer, the New York Choral Artists, and more.
Boulez & Bernstein Conduct
August 12, 2022
Music by Paul Dukas, Ludwig van Beethoven, Albert Roussel, and Maurice Ravel.
Alan Gilbert Conducts Barber, Corigliano, and Dvořák
July 29, 2022
Former NY Phil music director Alan Gilbert leads a mixed-rep program.
Lenny’s Playlist, Part II
July 15, 2022
A wide-ranging look at some of the finest NY Phil performances conducted and composed by Leonard Bernstein.
Lenny’s Playlist, Part I
July 8, 2022
A wide-ranging look at some of the finest NY Phil performances conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
Strauss & Bettison
July 1, 2022
Bernard Haitink and Alan Gilbert share conducting duties in this concert of music by Richard Strauss and contemporary composer Oscar Bettison.
Kaplen’s Playlist
June 24, 2022
In this wide-ranging program, we hear selections by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Claude Debussy, Gustav Mahler, Aaron Copland, Hector Berlioz, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Maurice Ravel.
Phil Firsts — World Premieres by the New York Phil
June 17, 2022
Performances of music of Antonín Dvořák, Aaron Copland, John Corigliano, and Elliott Carter that NY Phil premiered.
Leonard Bernstein and the Gustav Mahler Revival
June 10, 2022
Leonard Bernstein conducts three high-flying selections by Gustav Mahler.
NYP Soloists: Works by Mozart, Tan Dun, and Christopher Rouse
June 3, 2022
The Phil’s players are front and center in selections by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Tan Dun, Michael Hersch, and Christopher Rouse.
