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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
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.
Alan Gilbert Conducts Brahms and Schoenberg
May 23, 2024
This concert from Alan Gilbert's inaugural season as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic features his good friend Frank Peter Zimmermann as soloist in the Brahms Violin Concerto.
Christoph von Dohnányi Conducts Dvořák
May 16, 2024
Martin Helmchen is the soloist in Dvořák's piano concerto in G minor and his Symphony No. 9, "From the New World."
Alan Gilbert Conducts Mahler’s 6th Symphony
May 9, 2024
The symphony contains a soaring theme dedicated to Alma Mahler in the first movement and ends with tragic hammer blows.
Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen
May 2, 2024
A 2011 recording in which Alan Gilbert conducts a staged production of Leoš Janáček's seventh opera, The Cunning Little Vixen, a playful, yet poignant, reflection on the cycle of life.
Alan Gilbert Conducts Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis
April 25, 2024
An all-star cast: soprano Christine Brewer, mezzo-soprano Jane Henschel, tenor Anthony Dean Griffey, and bass-baritone Eric Owens, and the New York Choral Artists directed by Joseph Flummerfelt.
Sebastien Currier’s Time Machines and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony
April 18, 2024
Anne-Sophie Mutter is the violin soloist.
Van Zweden Conducts Stravinsky, Debussy, and Beethoven
April 11, 2024
Music director Jaap van Zweden conducts Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Debussy's La Mer, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major.
Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff
April 4, 2024
Yefim Bronfman is the soloist in Prokofiev’s fiendishly difficult Piano Concerto No. 2. We also present Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 from that same concert and the broadcast opens with Tchaikovsky’s Polonaise from the opera Eugene Onegin.
Alan Gilbert conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony
March 28, 2024
Alan Gilbert conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony on our next New York Philharmonic broadcast. Mezzo-soprano Petra Lang joins the orchestra, along with the Women of the Westminster Symphonic Choir and the American Boychoir.
