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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
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.
Ballet Music by Ravel and Tchaikovsky, with Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto
February 6, 2025
Alan Gilbert conducts works by Ravel, Nielsen, and Tchaikovsky.
Julia Wolfe’s Fire in my mouth
January 30, 2025
Julia Wolfe’s Grammy-nominated composition Fire in my mouth is an account of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 and the fight for workplace rights for immigrant women.
A Sibelius Sojourn
January 23, 2025
This week’s broadcast is dedicated to the music of the great Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.
American Works: Gershwin, Russo, Ellington, and Copland
January 16, 2025
Four 20th-century American masterworks, featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Choral Art Society.
Emanuel Ax Plays Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto
January 9, 2025
Plus music by Charles Ives, Anton Webern, and Robert Schumann.
An All-American New Year’s Eve: Thomas Hampson Sings Copland and Porter
January 2, 2025
Baritone Thomas Hampson joined the Philharmonic in 2009 for an American New Year’s Eve celebration.
