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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.
All-Dvořák
June 19, 2025
Antonín Dvořák’s cherished New World Symphony, plus the Piano Concerto in G minor featuring Martin Helmchen.
Rachmaninoff & Respighi
June 12, 2025
Conductors Kurt Masur, Eugene Ormandy, and Artur Rodzinski take turns leading works by Sergei Rachmaninoff, including the composer’s soaring Piano Concerto No. 3, featuring Vladimir Horowitz. Giuseppe Sinopoli then takes over to lead Ottorino Respighi’s Feste Romane (Roman Festivals).
Unearthed Americana
June 7, 2025
Leonard Bernstein conducts music by Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, and Marc Blitztein.
Shostakovich & Beethoven
May 29, 2025
Jaap van Zweden conducts the New York Philharmonic in music by Shostakovich and Beethoven.
Haitink conducts Mahler 9
May 22, 2025
Respected conductor Bernard Haitink leads the New York Philharmonic in Mahler’s epic Ninth Symphony.
Xian Zhang Conducts Haydn, Martinů, and Sibelius
May 15, 2025
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra music director Xian Zhang is joined by pianist Garrick Ohlsson.
Brahms & Schoenberg
May 1, 2025
Music by Johannes Brahms and Arnold Schoenberg conducted by Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez, and Lorin Maazel.
Mehta and Bernstein
April 24, 2025
Zubin Mehta and Leonard Bernstein share conducting duties in music by Paul Hindemith, Ludwig van Beethoven, John Corigliano, and Antonio Vivaldi.
Berg & Janáček
April 17, 2025
Featuring conductors Pierre Boulez, Christoph Eschenbach, Dimitri Mitropoulos, and Leonard Bernstein.
Hahn Plays Korngold
April 10, 2025
Music director Jaap van Zweden welcomes violinist Hilary Hahn for Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Violin Concerto, in a program that also features music by Johan Wagenaar and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Brahms ‘A German Requiem’
March 27, 2025
Jaap van Zweden conducts the New York Philharmonic, soprano Ying Fang, baritone Matthias Goerne, and the Concert Chorale of New York in Brahms’s German Requiem.
Debussy, Copland, Rachmaninoff, and more
March 20, 2025
An assortment of atmospheric and virtuosic works, sampled from different eras of NY Phil history.
Leos Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen
March 13, 2025
A concert performance of Leoš Janáček’s 1923 Czech-language opera.
Carter Brey Plays Dvořák
March 5, 2025
New York Philharmonic Principal Cellist Carter Brey performs Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with Alan Gilbert conducting.
Afromodernism: Music of the African Diaspora
February 27, 2025
Conductor Thomas Wilkins leads music from the African Diaspora by Carlos Simon, Nathalie Joachim, David Baker, and William Grant Still.
An All-Russian Concert
February 20, 2025
Former music director Alan Gilbert leads works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Bernstein Conducts Bernstein
February 13, 2025
Former Philharmonic Archivist and Historian Barbara Haws, and the composer's daughter, Jamie Bernstein, are featured guests in this episode.
