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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
“There, in the Night”
October 27, 2023
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.
Bernstein, Serebrier, and Boulez Conduct Works by Spanish and Mexican Composers
October 20, 2023
Music by Carlos Chávez, Manuel Ponce, and Manuel de Falla.
Alan Gilbert conducts works by two giants of the symphonic literature, Beethoven and Bruckner
October 13, 2023
Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica, is paired with the Symphony No. 2 by Anton Bruckner.
Alan Gilbert conducts Lindberg and Grisey, plus Beethoven and Mozart
October 6, 2023
Featuring Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan as soloist in Four Songs for Crossing the Threshold by Gerard Grisey.
Jaap van Zweden Conducts Beethoven and Rachmaninoff
September 29, 2023
Music Director Jaap van Zweden is joined by Yefim Bronfman in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2. This will be followed by the Symphony No. 2 by Rachmaninoff.
Jaap van Zweden Conducts The Rite of Spring, La Mer, and Beethoven’s 7th
September 22, 2023
Music director Jaap van Zweden conducts Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Debussy’s La Mer, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major.
Bell and van Zweden
September 15, 2023
Joshua Bell joins the New York Philharmonic and Jaap van Zweden in a performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto.
Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Simone Young
September 8, 2023
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the first Black musician to win the BBC Young Musician Award, is the soloist in Dvořák’s Cello Concerto.
NY Phil Through the Ages
August 25, 2023
We explore two symphonies prominent in the Orchestra’s history — Beethoven’s Fifth and Dvořák’s Ninth — through the interpretive lenses of six former Music Directors
Alan Gilbert Conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 6
August 11, 2023
“Throughout the work you can feel the desperate search for relief and happiness ... but, for me, there’s always the sense that it is on the verge of collapse."
Alan Gilbert Conducts Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis
August 4, 2023
Gilbert is joined by an all-star quartet of soloists and the New York Choral Artists in a 2010 performance.
Ballet Music by Ravel and Tchaikovsky, with Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto
July 28, 2023
Alan Gilbert conducts works by Ravel, Nielsen, and Tchaikovsky.
The Beethoven Piano Concertos: Part III
July 21, 2023
Between the Third and Fifth Concertos, Bronfman will be joined by then-concertmaster Glenn Dicterow and Principal Cello Carter Brey for Beethoven’s Triple Concerto.
The Beethoven Piano Concertos: Part II
July 14, 2023
Yefim Bronfman is the soloist in the second of three broadcasts from the NY Phil’s 2014 cycle of the Beethoven piano concertos. Note: This broadcast takes place at 10:00 pm because of a live performance from Ravinia Festival.
The Beethoven Piano Concertos: Part I
July 7, 2023
Between the First and Fourth Concertos, you’ll hear Anthony Cheung’s Lyra, a work the composer said was inspired by the noted relationship between Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto and the Orpheus myth.
Bronfman and van Zweden Perform Mozart & Bruckner
June 23, 2023
The very first work that was performed in the new Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall to help fine-tune the acoustics.
Jaap van Zweden Conducts Messiaen’s Turangalîla-symphonie
June 16, 2023
“Song of love, hymn to joy, time, movement, rhythm, life and death.” So Messiaen described his Turangalîla-symphonie.
