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Music of Mexican composers Carlos Chávez and Manuel Ponce, plus Spaniard Manuel de Falla conducted by Leonard Bernstein, José Serebrier, and Pierre Boulez. Hear soloists Sharon Isbin (guitar) Jan DeGaetani (mezzo-soprano), and Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano).
Jaap van Zweden leads a mixed-repertoire program that spotlights the Philharmonic’s long-serving principal violist Cynthia Phelps.
Former Music Director Alan Gilbert leads the orchestra, chorus, and soloists in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. The program opens with the U.S. premiere of Frieze, a New York Philharmonic Co-Commission composed by Mark-Anthony Turnage.
A 1945 recording of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, featuring conductor Bruno Walter and soloist Nathan Milstein who performed more than 70 concerts with the Orchestra.
In this broadcast, we hear Pierre Boulez conduct three French works: the score to the ballet La Péri by Paul Dukas, the Symphony No. 3 by Roussel, and the Mother Goose suite by Ravel. We’ll also hear Leonard Bernstein lead a performance of Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto from the keyboard.
A special program featuring five of the Orchestra’s principal players as concerto soloists in music by Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, William Bolcom, Julia Adolphe, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Alan Gilbert conducts works by Ravel, Nielsen, and Tchaikovsky.
Including highlights from Dvořák, Copland, and Corigliano.
Including performances conducted by the composer himself.
Featuring conductors Leonard Bernstein and Kurt Masur.
Kurt Masur conducts Dvořák and Beethoven.
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.
Sir Andrew Davis leads the Philharmonic in a charming pair of French works in this concert from the 2009-10 season.
Martin Helmchen is the soloist in Dvořák’s piano concerto in G minor and his Symphony No. 9, “From the New World.”
The symphony contains a soaring theme dedicated to Alma Mahler in the first movement and ends with tragic hammer blows.
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.
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.
Anne-Sophie Mutter is the violin soloist.
Music director Jaap van Zweden conducts Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, Debussy’s La Mer, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major.
No one was more pivotal in 20th century classical music than Igor Stravinsky. We rank his definitive top 10 works.
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 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.
Plus music by Charles Ives, Anton Webern, and Robert Schumann.
We explore the “Romantic side” of three 20th century masters in this broadcast: Webern, Schoenberg, and Ives.