Highlights in the Stern Auditorium
OCTOBER
Carnegie Hall’s Opening Night Gala
Berliner Philharmoniker
Thursday, October 8, 2026 7 PM
Feel the passion and excitement as Carnegie Hall launches its 2026–2027 season with this Opening Night Gala featuring the legendary Berliner Philharmoniker and opera superstar Jonas Kaufmann. Kirill Petrenko conducts an all-Italian program that showcases Kaufmann’s vibrant voice in some of his most renowned repertoire—including “Amor ti vieta” from Giordano’s Fedora, and emotional powerhouses from Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci and Cilea’s L’arlesiana. The concert begins in dramatic fashion with Verdi’s Overture to La forza del destino, and the orchestra also treats audiences to two of Respighi’s tone poems of Rome, transporting listeners to the picturesque fountains and pines of the city.
Complete this glamorous evening with gala tickets that include prime concert seating and access to a pre-concert cocktail reception at Carnegie Hall; a post-concert, black-tie gala dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street; or both! Individual tickets start at $1,250; make your reservation today to experience this celebratory and iconic New York City event.
Performers
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko, Chief Conductor
Jonas Kaufmann, Tenor
Program
VERDI Overture to La forza del destino
CILEA “È la solita storia del pastore … Anch’io vorrei” from L’arlesiana
GIORDANO “Amor ti vieta” from Fedora
RESPIGHI Fountains of Rome
LEONCAVALLO “Si può? Si può?” from Pagliacci
LEONCAVALLO Intermezzo from Pagliacci
LEONCAVALLO “Recitar! … Vesti la giubba” from Pagliacci
RESPIGHI Pines of Rome
Berliner Philharmoniker
Friday, October 9, 2026 8 PM
Experience the extraordinary partnership between Daniil Trifonov, one of the world’s most remarkable pianists, and the Berliner Philharmoniker, which The New York Times declared “the best in the business” when it last performed at Carnegie Hall. Together, they perform Brahms’s passionate Piano Concerto No. 1, an exquisite showpiece for both soloist and ensemble, followed by an orchestral performance of Richard Strauss’s soaring tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra, most popularly associated with Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Performers
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko, Chief Conductor
Daniil Trifonov, Piano
Program
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1
R. STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra
Berliner Philharmoniker
Saturday, October 10, 2026 8 PM
After the latest “amazing” performances by the Berliner Philharmoniker at Carnegie Hall, The New York Times asserted that “no orchestra is greater than this one, which plays with force and finesse under its chief conductor, Kirill Petrenko … the world [looks] to this orchestra as a beacon of everything that classical music can mean.” Returning to great demand, they perform Elgar’s endlessly fascinating Enigma Variations, the first masterwork to bring Elgar lasting international popularity; followed by Tchaikovsky’s formidable and thrillingly climactic Symphony No. 4.
Performers
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko, Chief Conductor
Program
ELGAR Enigma Variations
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sunday, October 11, 2026 2 PM
In this Sunday matinee, experience the extraordinary partnership between Daniil Trifonov, one of the world’s most remarkable pianists, and the Berliner Philharmoniker, which The New York Times declared “the best in the business” when it last performed at Carnegie Hall. Together, they perform Brahms’s passionate Piano Concerto No. 1, an exquisite showpiece for both soloist and ensemble, followed by an orchestral performance of Richard Strauss’s soaring tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra, most popularly associated with Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Performers
Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko, Chief Conductor
Daniil Trifonov, Piano
Program
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1
R. STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Tuesday, October 13, 2026 7:30 PM
With this performance, Yannick Nézet-Séguin launches his complete cycle of Gustav Mahler’s symphonies during the 2026–2027 Carnegie Hall season. Leading the world-class Philadelphia Orchestra, he begins the cycle with Mahler’s Fifth, the composer’s first symphony to exist as absolute music, with no overt programmatic storytelling. “What is orchestral music? Here’s the example … it’s a symphony that has everything,” said Nézet-Séguin in an interview with WRTI. The program also features Webern’s first complete orchestral work, the evocative Im Sommerwind; and the New York premiere of Julia Wolfe’s raucous and resonant Liberty Bell, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall.
Performers
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music and Artistic Director
Program
WEBERN Im Sommerwind
JULIA WOLFE Liberty Bell (NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
G. MAHLER Symphony No. 5
Yunchan Lim, Piano
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 8 PM
Following three consecutive sold-out recitals, superstar pianist Yunchan Lim returns to Carnegie Hall for another career milestone: a complete cycle of Mozart’s piano sonatas, performed across four highly anticipated concerts. The cycle begins tonight with Mozart’s rarely performed first sonata, K. 279, followed by K. 284, another early entry from the composer’s time in Munich. Then, hear one of the cycle’s most popular and brilliant works: the Piano Sonata in F Major, K. 332, followed by a rare minor-key entry: the emotionally turbulent Piano Sonata in A Minor, K. 310.
Performers
Yunchan Lim, Piano
Program
ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Piano Sonata in C Major, K. 279
Piano Sonata in D Major, K. 284
Fantasy in D Minor, K. 397
Piano Sonata in F Major, K. 332
Piano Sonata in A Minor, K. 310
Columbus Symphony Orchestra 75th Anniversary Concert
Wednesday, October 28, 2026 8 PM
The Columbus Symphony celebrates its 75th anniversary season with the world premiere of The Mysteries, a newly commissioned work by Gregory Spears. Bass-baritone Davóne Tines performs Concerto No. 2: ANTHEM, a piece he created in collaboration with composers Michael Schachter, Caroline Shaw, and Tyshawn Sorey, as well as poet Mahogany L. Browne, that examines and reimagines the national anthem and other American songs. The program concludes with Music Director Rossen Milanov leading Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony.
Performers
Rossen Milanov, Conductor
Davóne Tines, Bass-Baritone
Columbus Symphony
Program
GREGORY SPEARS The Mysteries (World Premiere)
DAVÓNE TINES Concerto No. 2: ANTHEM
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5
NOVEMBER
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique
Thursday, November 5, 2026 8 PM
“With the ferocious intensity of Louis Langrée’s performance … Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique sounds like one of the most modern pieces in the repertoire … thrillingly realized,” says The Guardian. This evening, Langrée conducts the versatile Orchestra of St. Luke’s in Berlioz’s delirious masterpiece and other works. World-renowned lyric tenor Benjamin Bernheim—called “the most beautiful tenor voice since Luciano Pavarotti” by Süddeutsche Zeitung and “simply stunning” by Le Monde—performs as soloist in the song cycle Les nuis d’été (Summer Nights). The concert opens with Berlioz’s popular first orchestral work: the surviving overture from his discarded opera Les francs-juges.
Performers
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Louis Langrée, Conductor
Benjamin Bernheim, Tenor
Program
ALL-BERLIOZ PROGRAM
Overture to Les francs-juges
Les nuits d’été
Symphonie fantastique
New York Philharmonic
Puccini’s Tosca, opera in concert
Friday, November 13, 2026 7:30 PM
Sunday, November 15, 2026 2 PM
Gustavo Dudamel leads the New York Philharmonic and some of the world’s greatest opera singers in Carnegie Hall’s first-ever concert performance of Tosca. Puccini’s intense masterpiece marries timeless opera traditions with daring, turn-of-the-20th-century innovation, and it is as renowned for its rich scoring and quintessential arias as it is for its thrilling, told-in-real-time story. To hear it performed by this dream lineup in the acoustics of Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage will be an unforgettable treat.
Performers
New York Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, Music and Artistic Director
Marina Rebeka, Tosca
Jonas Kaufmann, Cavaradossi
Ludovic Tézier, Scarpia
Andrew Moore, Angelotti
Ben Brady, Sacristan
Ben Reisinger, Spoletta
Benjamin Taylor, Sciarrone
Christopher Humbert Jr., Jailer
New York Philharmonic Chorus
Malcolm J. Merriweather, Director
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Dianne Berkun Menaker, Director
Program
PUCCINI Tosca (opera in concert)
DECEMBER
Hélène Grimaud, Piano
Wednesday, December 2, 2026 8 PM
Hélène Grimaud is “a reinventor of phrasings, a taker of chances,” a tirelessly inquisitive artist whose recitals “shake up conventional pianistic wisdom [and] offer surprises” in even the most beloved works (The New Yorker). In this evening’s recital, she performs the final, transcendent piano sonatas of Beethoven and Schubert, each one a true pinnacle of solo piano composition.
Performers
Hélène Grimaud, Piano
Program
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960
Daniil Trifonov, Piano
Saturday, December 12, 2026 8 PM
A recital by Daniil Trifonov—called “the most astounding pianist of our age” by London’s The Times—is always a highlight at Carnegie Hall. His extraordinary range is showcased in a recital that begins with Handel’s Suite No. 5 in E Major (“The Harmonious Blacksmith”), followed by Stravinsky’s sole piano sonata and Schubert’s beloved “Wanderer Fantasy,” a powerful musical depiction of a stranger’s lonesome search for meaning and happiness in a strange land. Trifonov’s stylistic exploration continues throughout the program’s second half, featuring selections by Brazilian composers Villa-Lobos and Camargo Guarnieri, Argentine composer Ginastera, Dominican composers Juan Francisco García and Landestoy, and Trifonov’s own original Tango.
Performers
Daniil Trifonov, Piano
Program
HANDEL Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430
STRAVINSKY Piano Sonata (1924)
SCHUBERT Fantasy in C Major, D. 760, “Wanderer Fantasy”
J. F. GARCÍA Sambumbia No. 1, “Rapsodia Dominicana”
VILLA-LOBOS Valsa da dor
LANDESTOY El Vals de Santo Domingo
GINASTERA “Milonga,” Op. 3
DANIIL TRIFONOV Tango
LANDESTOY “Estudio en Samba”
C. GUARNIERI “Dansa Negra”
VILLA-LOBOS Bachianas brasileiras No. 4
Yunchan Lim, Piano
Monday, December 14, 2026 8 PM
Following three consecutive sold-out recitals, superstar pianist Yunchan Lim returns to Carnegie Hall for another career milestone: a complete cycle of Mozart’s 18 piano sonatas, performed across four highly anticipated concerts. Each performance features audience-favorite staples alongside the seldom-heard masterworks that they sometimes overshadow. Tonight, Lim performs the lesser-known K. 282 and K. 309; the elegant “Linz” Sonata, K. 333; the seminal K. 331, which includes the famous “Rondo alla Turca” third movement; and K. 311, which Lim performed en route to becoming the youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
Performers
Yunchan Lim, Piano
Program
ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Piano Sonata in E-flat Major, K. 282
Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 333
Piano Sonata in D Major, K. 311
Piano Sonata in C Major, K. 309
Piano Sonata in A Major, K. 331
Vienna Boys Choir
Sunday, December 20, 2026 2 PM
The Vienna Boys Choir returns to Carnegie Hall for a holiday family tradition that has spanned decades. These child singers have captivated audiences worldwide for over six centuries with their pure tone, distinctive charm, and wide-ranging repertoire. One of five touring choirs whose members hail from dozens of nations, the ensemble performs more than 300 concerts annually. Christmas in Vienna blends classical masterworks, international folk and popular songs, and seasonal favorites.
Oratorio Society of New York
HANDEL Messiah
Monday, December 21, 2026 7 PM
A highlight of the New York holiday season since 1874, the Oratorio Society of New York presents its 152nd consecutive performance of Handel’s Messiah. Nearly 300 years after its creation, Messiah continues to move audiences not just as a seasonal tradition, but as a profound musical testament to hope, faith, and the transformative power of art.
Performers
Oratorio Society of New York
Kent Tritle, Music Director
Jennifer Zetlan, Soprano
Daniel Moody, Countertenor
Brian Giebler, Tenor
Jonathan Woody, Bass-Baritone
Program
HANDEL Messiah
New York String Orchestra
Thursday, December 24, 2026 7 PM
For nearly 60 years, music lovers have flocked to the New York String Orchestra’s annual December 24 performance at Carnegie Hall. Tonight, experience a new chapter of this beloved tradition, as Michael Stern conducts the youthful ensemble in his inaugural season as music director. Violinist extraordinaire Gil Shaham joins as soloist in Barber’s enchanting Violin Concerto, which he has performed brilliantly with orchestras worldwide. The wide-ranging program also includes Beethoven’s charming and lighthearted Symphony No. 8 and his Overture to Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, plus Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, which draws from music of the English Renaissance and a theme by 16th-century composer Thomas Tallis.
Performers
New York String Orchestra
Michael Stern, Conductor
Gil Shaham, Violin
Program
BEETHOVEN Overture to Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
BARBER Violin Concerto
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8
New York String Orchestra
Monday, December 28, 2026 8 PM
Celebrate a New Year and a new generation of musicians in the annual, late-December concert by the exceptional New York String Orchestra. Led by conductor Michael Stern in his inaugural season, the youthful ensemble is joined by Jeremy Denk—“a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs” (The New York Times)—in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, one of Denk’s signature performance pieces. This evening’s program also includes the popular eight-minute overture to J. Strauss Jr.’s Die Fledermaus, Stravinsky’s quintessential The Firebird Suite, and Valerie Coleman’s Umoja, an “Anthem for Unity” that was born as a song for women’s choir and is featured tonight in its lush arrangement for string orchestra.
Performers
New York String Orchestra
Michael Stern, Conductor
Jeremy Denk, Piano
Program
J. STRAUSS JR. Overture to Die Fledermaus
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4
VALERIE COLEMAN Umoja
STRAVINSKY The Firebird Suite (1919 version)
JANUARY
The Cleveland Orchestra
Tuesday, January 19, 2027 8 PM
Experience the grandeur of sound and soaring humanist spirit of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis. With its massive choral forces, virtuosic orchestral demands, and emotional intensity, the colossal work requires an extraordinary group of musicians, singers, and soloists to achieve its universal spiritual potential. This evening’s ideal lineup features Franz Welser-Möst in one of his final performances as music director of The Cleveland Orchestra; soloists Golda Schultz, Taylor Raven, Julian Prégardien, and Anthony Robin Schneider; and The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus.
Performers
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, Music Director and Conductor
Golda Schultz, Soprano
Taylor Raven, Mezzo-Soprano
Julian Prégardien, Tenor
Anthony Robin Schneider, Bass
The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus
Lisa Wong, Director
Program
BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis
The Cleveland Orchestra
Wednesday, January 20, 2027 8 PM
Hear “America’s finest” orchestra (The New York Times) in a full concert of works by Richard Strauss, a composer of enormous importance to conductor Franz Welser-Möst. In the liner notes of Wesler-Möst’s “essential” (Gramophone) all-Strauss recording with The Cleveland Orchestra, he writes, “Strauss’s gift for commenting on human behavior and in touching our hearts through music is peerless … [he is] a master of heartache, of yearnings, drama, comedy, and tragedy.” Experience Strauss’s sweeping emotional range and stunning orchestral colors in the Introduction and Finale from Daphne, Metamorphosen, and the intimate-but-heroic Symphonia domestica, which received its world premiere on this stage under Strauss’s own baton.
Performers
The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, Music Director and Conductor
Program
ALL-R. STRAUSS PROGRAM
Introduction and Finale from Daphne
Metamorphosen: A Study for 23 Strings
Symphonia domestica
American Symphony Orchestra
Friday, January 29, 2027 8 PM
The American Symphony Orchestra presents an all-Beethoven program, showcasing several rarely performed scores from the composer’s oeuvre, 200 years following his death. The program features early works such as the Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II and concert trio Tremate, empi, tremate, that reveal the unmistakable qualities of Beethoven’s genius, through scores of emotional intensity, expressive energy, and dramatic breadth that would come to define his mature voice.
Performers
American Symphony Orchestra
Leon Botstein, Music Director
Bard Festival Chorale
James Bagwell, Music Director
Soloists to be announced
Program
ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Consecration of the House Overture
Tremate, empi, tremate (Tremble, guilty ones, tremble)
Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II
Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage)
Mass in C Major, Op. 86
FEBRUARY
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Tuesday, February 2, 2027 7:30 PM
Sir Simon Rattle conducts The Philadelphia Orchestra in an unforgettable orchestral showpiece by longtime friend and collaborator John Adams. The composer describes his three-movement Harmonielehre as “parody of a different sort … shades of Mahler, Sibelius, Debussy, and the young Schoenberg are everywhere in this strange piece. [It] looks at the past in what I suspect is ‘postmodernist’ spirit, but … it does so entirely without irony.” It’s been a massive hit in performances by many of the world’s leading orchestras, including several with Rattle at the helm. The program also features Debussy’s La mer and Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2, perennial favorites that are beloved for their lush harmonies, vivid colors, and sumptuous orchestration.
Performers
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor
Program
JOHN ADAMS Harmonielehre
DEBUSSY La mer
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2
The Met Orchestra
Thursday, February 4, 2027 8 PM
Sir Simon Rattle conducts the famously versatile orchestra of the Met Opera. The program begins with Janáček’s spirited Sinfonietta, an energetic work with exacting demands of its expanded brass section. With patriotic fanfares and numerous folk references, it salutes the composer’s native Czechoslovakia over the course of five movements in approximately 25 minutes. Then, hear Bruckner’s monumental Symphony No. 7, a piece for which Rattle is widely celebrated and which The Met Orchestra chose for its first-ever Bruckner symphony performance in 2019. It is a work of stunning breadth, drama, and lyricism, with a breathtaking slow movement that pays tribute to the composer’s idol, Wagner.
Performers
The Met Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor
Program
JANÁČEK Sinfonietta
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 7
Mitsuko Uchida, Piano
Saturday, February 6, 2027 8 PM
Mitsuko Uchida is among the most supremely sensitive and respected pianists of our time. Her “probing and magisterial” (The New York Times) Schubert interpretations make for destination-worthy performances, and this program features one of the composer’s late masterworks: Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 959. Dramatic, expansive, and deeply personal, it’s an ideal representation of the beauty and devastating emotional urgency found in his greatest musical achievements. The recital also includes Mozart’s seminal Rondo in A Minor, K. 511; Haydn’s revered Variations in F Minor; and Schoenberg’s idiosyncratic Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19.
Performers
Mitsuko Uchida, Piano
Program
HAYDN Variations in F Minor, Hob. XVII: 6
SCHOENBERG Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19
MOZART Rondo in A Minor, K. 511
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 959
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Mozart’s Requiem
Thursday, February 11, 2027 8 PM
In the splendid acoustics of Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, enjoy a world-class performance of Mozart’s stunning final creation: his Requiem, one of the most iconic works in the choral and orchestral repertoire. Joined by four of today’s leading vocal soloists, Christophe Rousset conducts Orchestra of St. Luke’s with The Clarion Choir. They begin the performance with Schubert’s Mass No. 2 in G Major, a welcoming introduction before Mozart’s fabled work of grandeur and mystery.
Performers
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Christophe Rousset, Conductor
Liv Redpath, Soprano
Jamie Barton, Mezzo-Soprano
Andrew Staples, Tenor
Ryan Speedo Green, Bass-Baritone
The Clarion Choir
Steven Fox, Director
Program
SCHUBERT Mass No. 2 in G Major, D. 167
MOZART Requiem
Munich Philharmonic
Friday, February 19, 2027 8 PM
As part of her 50th anniversary season as a concert violinist, Carnegie Hall audience favorite Anne-Sophie Mutter joins the Munich Philharmonic as soloist in Brahms’s Violin Concerto. One of the most in-demand pieces in the repertoire, Mutter’s performance of the virtuosic staple is called “intense … soaringly beautiful … [and] unfailingly intelligent” (NPR). Led by its newly appointed Chief Conductor Lahav Shani, the orchestra also treats listeners to Bruckner’s transcendent “Romantic” Symphony, one of the pinnacles of 19th-century music.
Performers
Munich Philharmonic
Lahav Shani, Chief Conductor
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violin
Program
BRAHMS Violin Concerto
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4, “Romantic”
Munich Philharmonic
Saturday, February 20, 2027 8 PM
The storied Munich Philharmonic performs back-to-back concerts under its newly appointed Chief Conductor Lahav Shani. Tonight only, Shani leads from the piano in Shostakovich’s rarely programmed Piano Concerto No. 2, written as a birthday present to the composer’s son. The program also includes Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1, “Classical”; and Schubert’s colossal, aptly named “Great” Symphony.
Performers
Munich Philharmonic
Lahav Shani, Chief Conductor and Piano
Program
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, “Classical”
SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Concerto No. 2
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9, “Great”
Monteverdi Choir and Masaaki Suzuki
St. Matthew Passion
The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists join a leading authority on J.S. Bach, Masaaki Suzuki, for a landmark performance of St. Matthew Passion in the work’s 300th anniversary year. This electrifying combination of ensembles and conductor offers a fresh and compelling interpretation of Bach’s timeless masterpiece. The Choir’s recent engagements include performing at the Coronation of their patron, King Charles III.
Performers
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Masaaki Suzuki, Conductor
Nick Pritchard, Tenor (Evangelist)
Florian Störtz, Bass (Jesus)
Carolyn Sampson, Soprano
Jone Martinez, Soprano
Alexander Chance, Alto
Matthias Daehling, Alto
Hugo Hymas, Tenor
Timothy Edlin, Bass
Program
J. S. BACH St. Matthew Passion
Vienna Philharmonic
Friday, February 26, 2027 8 PM
The Vienna Philharmonic “is a great instrument, and it sounds particularly good in Carnegie Hall,” wrote The New Criterion after the ensemble’s latest performance of Mahler’s Ninth on this stage. One could say the same about how distinctly brilliant Mahler’s transcendent, final completed symphony sounds when performed by the Vienna Philharmonic, an orchestra whose authoritative history with the work dates to its world premiere. Yannick Nézet-Séguin, one of the world’s most sought-after Mahler interpreters, takes the helm this evening, continuing his complete cycle of Mahler’s symphonies during the 2026–2027 Carnegie Hall season.
Performers
Vienna Philharmonic
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor
Program
G. MAHLER Symphony No. 9
Vienna Philharmonic
Saturday, February 27, 2027 8 PM
Yannick Nézet-Séguin continues his complete cycle of Mahler symphonies with the Fourth—a masterpiece that Mahler himself conducted twice at Carnegie Hall. Though lighter in tone and shorter in length than most of his symphonic works, it contains some of the cycle’s most memorable moments—including a heavenly vocal part in the fourth movement, performed this evening by renowned soprano Christiane Karg. The Vienna Philharmonic also welcomes virtuoso Yuja Wang to perform the fiery solo part of Prokofiev’s most popular concerto: the energetic Piano Concerto No. 3.
Performers
Vienna Philharmonic
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor
Yuja Wang, Piano
Christiane Karg, Soprano
Program
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3
G. MAHLER Symphony No. 4
Vienna Philharmonic
Sunday, February 28, 2027 2 PM
The revered Vienna Philharmonic performs its third and final Mahler symphony of the week at Carnegie Hall. This matinee performance of Mahler’s iconic “Resurrection” Symphony is part of a complete Mahler symphony cycle by visionary conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, whose sole prior performance of the work at Carnegie Hall was called “amazement befitting a miracle … as special an event as every ‘Resurrection’ ought to be” (The New York Times). Joined by a choir and soloists Christiane Karg and Elīna Garanča, he brings one of music’s most glorious creations back to the stage where Mahler conducted its US premiere.
Performers
Vienna Philharmonic
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor
Christiane Karg, Soprano
Elīna Garanča, Mezzo-Soprano
Choir to be announced
Program
G. MAHLER Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection”
MARCH
Víkingur Ólafsson, Piano
Tuesday, March 2, 2027 8 PM
Join pianist Víkingur Ólafsson on a reflective journey through the music of Philip Glass, Debussy, and Rameau. Ólafsson “treats Mr. Glass’s music like a sculpture, worth studying from all angles in search of new interpretations and surprises,” The New York Times said after Ólafsson released his Philip Glass: Piano Works album and performed etudes in a shared concert with Glass. Audiences will discover the same openhearted curiosity in his approach to impressionistic masterpieces by Debussy and the seminal Piéces de clavecin by French Baroque composer Rameau.
Performers
Víkingur Ólafsson, Piano
Program
PHILIP GLASS Opening from Glassworks
DEBUSSY “Ondine” from Preludes, Book II
PHILIP GLASS Etude No. 15
RAMEAU Selections from Suite in D Major from Pièces de clavecin avec une méthode pour la mécanique des doigts
DEBUSSY “Serenade for the Doll” from Children’s Corner
RAMEAU Selections from Suite in E Minor from Pièces de clavecin avec une méthode pour la mécanique des doigts
DEBUSSY “Jardins sous la pluie” from Estampes
PHILIP GLASS Etude No. 3
DEBUSSY “The Snow Is Dancing” from Children’s Corner
RAMEAU Suite in A Minor from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony
Thursday, March 11, 2027 8 PM
Hear two of Beethoven’s greatest works performed by Orchestra of St. Luke’s, a New York music institution and longtime audience favorite at Carnegie Hall. Beethoven’s symphonic swashbuckler—the mighty, grandly scaled “Eroica” Symphony—forever changed the course of music, heralding a new age of Romanticism in thrilling fashion. Conductor Andrew Manze is particularly renowned for his performance of the symphony. Plus, hear Beethoven’s turbulent Piano Concerto No. 3, a piece with roots in the Classical era and a heart in the Romantic. It is performed with virtuoso soloist Yeol Eum Son, a prizewinner at the International Tchaikovsky Competition, Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, and Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition.
Performers
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Andrew Manze, Conductor
Yeol Eum Son, Piano
Program
ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Piano Concerto No. 3
Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”
Seong-Jin Cho, Piano
Friday, March 12, 2027 8 PM
Between his now-legendary, unplanned Carnegie Hall orchestral debut in 2022 (“miraculous,” per The New York Times), to spectacular recent recitals that included a “daringtour de force” (Bachtrack) performance of Ravel’s complete solo piano works, Seong-Jin Cho has achieved Carnegie Hall icon status at breathtaking speed. In his anticipated return, Cho performs the last of Prokofiev’s mighty “war sonatas” and the solo-piano suite from Prokofiev’s fan favorite Romeo and Juliet. The program also features Mozart’s Fantasia in C Minor, K. 396, completed for solo piano; and Jörg Widmann’s Sonatina facile, a delightful homage to Mozart’s deceptively approachable sonata of the same nickname.
Performers
Seong-Jin Cho, Piano
Program
JÖRG WIDMANN Sonatina facile
PROKOFIEV Ten Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75
MOZART Fantasia in C Minor, K. 396 (completed by Stadler)
PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No. 8 in B-flat Major, Op. 84
London Symphony Orchestra
The Annual Isaac Stern Memorial Concert
Saturday, March 13, 2027 8 PM
Experience Beethoven’s revolutionary, sole violin concerto performed by one of the instrument’s greatest players worldwide. With its groundbreaking sense of scale, thrillingly athletic solo part, and opulent orchestration, Beethoven’s masterwork set a new precedent for the fiery Romantic era concertos that followed. Maxim Vengerov and the London Symphony Orchestra are celebrated for delivering “as fine a performance of this noble work as any available” (The Guardian). Sir Antonio Pappano also leads the orchestra in Shostakovich’s intensely powerful Symphony No. 8.
Performers
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappano, Chief Conductor
Maxim Vengerov, Violin
Program
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 8
London Symphony Orchestra
Sunday, March 14, 2027 2 PM
In this Sunday matinee, Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s rarely heard Triple Concerto, a fascinating work written for an unprecedented combination of solo instruments. Here, it is performed by three of the world’s finest players: violinist Maxim Vengerov, appearing in his third and final season as a Carnegie Hall Perspectives artist; cellist Alisa Weilerstein, a “technically flawless and deeply expressive” (The New York Times) virtuoso; and pianist Kirill Gerstein, a musician with “blazing technique [and] wonderful command of color and nuance” (The Wall Street Journal). The program also features Richard Strauss’s audaciously autobiographical Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life).
Performers
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappano, Chief Conductor
Maxim Vengerov, Violin
Alisa Weilerstein, Cello
Kirill Gerstein, Piano
Program
BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto
R. STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben
Das Rheingold
Wagner’s Ring Cycle in Concert
Thursday, March 18, 2027 6 PM
Witness history-in-the-making—and one of music’s all-time most stunning creations—in Carnegie Hall’s first-ever complete Ring cycle, comprising four opera-in-concert performances. Wagner’s legendary epic begins with Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), an orchestral wonder that introduces many of the cycle’s magnificent performers and mythological dramas—from the creation of the ill-fated ring of gold to its dramatic seizure by Wotan and its terrible curse. Gianandrea Noseda leads an extraordinary cast of Wagnerian singers, each specially selected for these historic performances, and the Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, a world-renowned institution from the Ring’s birthplace and modern epicenter.
Performers
Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House
Gianandrea Noseda, Music Director and Conductor
Michael Volle, Wotan
Daniel Schmutzhard, Donner
Johan Krogius, Froh
Klaus Florian Vogt, Loge
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Fricka
Vida Miknevičiūtė, Freia
Noa Beinart, Erda
Christopher Purves, Alberich
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Mime
Mika Kares, Fasolt
David Leigh, Fafner
Victoria Randem, Woglinde
Marcela Rahal, Wellgunde
Siena Licht Miller, Flosshilde
Program
WAGNER Das Rheingold (opera in concert)
Die Walküre
Friday, March 19, 2027 6 PM
Experience the thrilling “Ride of the Valkyries,” the tragic love of Siegmund and Sieglinde, and much more in this opera-in-concert performance of Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)—part two of Carnegie Hall’s history-making first Ring cycle. Gianandrea Noseda leads a specially selected cast of Wagnerian singers alongside the Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, a world-renowned institution from the Ring’s birthplace and modern epicenter. Hearing the complete, four-part Ring cycle is an incomparable musical experience—but if you can attend only one performance, its most-popular second chapter about Brünnhilde’s rebellion is always an unforgettable choice.
Performers
Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House
Gianandrea Noseda, Music Director and Conductor
Klaus Florian Vogt, Siegmund
Mika Kares, Hunding
Michael Volle, Wotan
Vida Miknevičiūtė, Sieglinde
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Fricka
Camilla Nylund, Brünnhilde
Dorothea Herbert, Helmwige
Iulia Maria Dan, Gerhilde
Natália Tuznik, Ortlinde
Agnieszka Rehlis, Waltraute
Marcela Rahal, Siegrune
Siena Licht Miller, Rossweisse
Dominika Stefańska, Grimgerde
Noa Beinart, Schwertleite
Program
WAGNER Die Walküre (opera in concert)
Emanuel Ax, Piano
Saturday, March 20, 2027 8 PM
Through half a century and more than 100 unforgettable concerts, Emanuel Ax has built one of Carnegie Hall’s most astonishing performance legacies, with each recital revealing new shades and nuances of great composers’ works. In addition to highlights by Schubert, this evening he performs an irresistible selection of works by Chopin. Enjoy the beautiful Barcarolle, one of the mysterious nocturnes, the muscular and virtuosic Scherzo No. 2, and the Polonaise-fantaisie, a stylistically diverse late work whose genre even Chopin labored to determine.
Performers
Emanuel Ax, Piano
Program
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 664
SCHUBERT Four Impromptus, D. 935
CHOPIN Polonaise-fantaisie in A-flat Major
CHOPIN Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op. 60
CHOPIN Nocturne in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 1
CHOPIN Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat Minor
Siegfried
Wagner’s Ring Cycle in Concert
Sunday, March 21, 2027 2 PM
Witness music-history-in-the-making on a Sunday afternoon. This opera-in-concert performance of Siegfried is the third chapter of Carnegie Hall’s first-ever Ring cycle, featuring Gianandrea Noseda and the Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House with a world-class cast of Wagnerian singers. Experience orchestral writing and mythical storytelling on a breathtaking scale in this hero’s tale of destiny and identity, love and sacrifice, dragon-slaying, and a sleeping beauty in a ring of fire.
Performers
Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House
Gianandrea Noseda, Music Director and Conductor
Klaus Florian Vogt, Siegfried
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Mime
Michael Volle, Der Wanderer
Christopher Purves, Alberich
David Leigh, Fafner
Noa Beinart, Erda
Camilla Nylund, Brünnhilde
Victoria Randem, Das Waldvöglein
Program
WAGNER Siegfried (opera in concert)
Götterdämmerung
Wagner’s Ring Cycle in Concert
Tuesday, March 23, 2027 6 PM
Experience the thrilling conclusion to the first Ring cycle in Carnegie Hall’s history. Wagner’s four-part epic is one of the most awe-inspiring, grandly scaled, and sought-after works in all of live music, and these opera-in-concert performances bring each chapter to life in stunning detail. This evening, experience the Ring’s heart-wrenching final opera, Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), that tells of Siegfried’s betrayal, the burning of Valhalla, and the ring’s return to the Rhine. It is performed by a world-class cast of Wagnerian singers and New York’s own Musica Sacra with Gianandrea Noseda and the Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House, a world-renowned institution from the birthplace of the Ring.
Performers
Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House
Gianandrea Noseda, Music Director and Conductor
Klaus Florian Vogt, Siegfried
Daniel Schmutzhard, Gunther
Christopher Purves, Alberich
Mika Kares, Hagen
Camilla Nylund, Brünnhilde
Iulia Maria Dan, Gutrune
Agnieszka Rehlis, Waltraute
Dominika Stefańska, Erste Norn
Siena Licht Miller, Zweite Norn
Dorothea Herbert, Dritte Norn
Victoria Randem, Woglinde
Marcela Rahal, Wellgunde
Siena Licht Miller, Flosshilde
Musica Sacra
Kent Tritle, Director
Program
WAGNER Götterdämmerung (opera in concert)
Yunchan Lim, Piano
Wednesday, March 24, 2027 8 PM
Following three consecutive sold-out recitals, superstar pianist Yunchan Lim returns to Carnegie Hall for another career milestone: Mozart’s 18 piano sonatas, performed as a complete cycle across four highly anticipated concerts. In the first half of tonight’s program, we hear some of Mozart’s earliest forays into the genre, as Lim performs three remarkable works written in 1774 by the 18-year-old composer. Then, discover what the maestro was capable of a decade later, as heard in the mature Piano Sonata in C Major, K. 330; and Piano Sonata in C Minor, K. 457; plus the Fantasia in C Minor, K. 475.
Performers
Yunchan Lim, Piano
Program
ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Piano Sonata in F Major, K. 280
Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 281
Piano Sonata in G Major, K. 283
Piano Sonata in C Major, K. 330
Fantasia in C Minor, K. 475
Piano Sonata in C Minor, K. 457
Rostropovich Centenary Gala
Saturday, March 27, 2027 7 PM
Li Lewei
Carnegie Hall presents a star-studded celebration of legendary cellist, conductor, pianist, and humanitarian Mstislav Rostropovich on what would have been his 100th birthday. This lovingly crafted program features masterworks by Britten, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich, each of whom were inspired to write several masterpieces for Rostropovich and were among his closest friends and admirers. Semyon Bychkov, one of today’s leading interpreters of this repertoire, conducts Orchestra of St. Luke’s with pianist Evgeny Kissin—whose storied collaborations with Rostropovich were major early-career highlights—and Rostropovich protégé Maxim Vengerov, who once told TIME magazine that “[Rostropovich is] like my grandfather. He’s my hero. I learned more from him than from any other artist.” Mikhail Baryshnikov—another of Rostropovich’s iconic lifelong friends—narrates Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra for this special occasion.
Performers
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Semyon Bychkov, Conductor
Evgeny Kissin, Piano
Maxim Vengerov, Violin
Mikhail Baryshnikov, Narrator
Program
BRITTEN The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 1
SHOSTAKOVICH Selections from Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues
SHOSTAKOVICH Allegro non troppo from Symphony No. 5
APRIL
American Symphony Orchestra
Strauss’s Intermezzo
Thursday, April 1, 2027 8 PM
Richard Strauss’s rarely performed Intermezzo (1924) is a charming, deeply personal opera inspired by episodes from the composer’s own married life. Blending wit, warmth, and lyrical refinement, this comedic masterpiece offers a rare glimpse into Strauss’s lighter compositional side, portraying candidly the misunderstandings and reconciliations of life with humanity, remarkable technical command, and musical sophistication.
Performers
American Symphony Orchestra
Leon Botstein, Music Director
Cast to be announced
Program
R. STRAUSS Intermezzo
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Friday, April 2, 2027 7:30 PM
Yannick Nézet-Séguin continues his Mahler symphony cycle at Carnegie Hall with this performance of Symphony No. 7 by The Philadelphia Orchestra, one of the all-time great American Mahler ensembles. “It is my best work and predominantly of a cheerful character,” the composer said of his ambitiously orchestrated journey from darkness to daylight and the shadowy spaces between. As was often the case with Mahler’s symphonies, initial audience puzzlement over the work’s stunning variety has turned to fascination, amazement, and a hunger for the next great performance that will reveal new shades of its enigmatic beauty.
Performers
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music and Artistic Director
Program
G. MAHLER Symphony No. 7
Igor Levit, Piano
Thursday, April 8, 2027 8 PM
With this performance, Igor Levit kicks off his complete Beethoven piano sonata cycle, spanning two seasons at Carnegie Hall. His recording of the cycle has earned extraordinary acclaim, including an OPUS KLASSIK, The Sunday Times’ Record of the Year, and Gramophone’s Artist of the Year, with the latter praising Levit’s “sense of being completely at one with Beethoven himself … From the very opening of the first sonata … he draws you into Beethoven’s world of fierce unpredictability.” Tonight’s program features Piano Sonata No. 1, the legendary “Waldstein” Sonata, the boldly innovative Piano Sonata No. 12, and Piano Sonata No. 25, which Levit calls a “tricky little sonatina … full of crazy surprises” (The Guardian).
Performers
Igor Levit, Piano
Program
ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2, No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-flat Major, Op. 26
Piano Sonata No. 25 in G Major, Op. 79
Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53, “Waldstein”
Igor Levit, Piano
Friday, April 9, 2027 8 PM
Igor Levit’s cycle of the Beethoven piano sonatas has been called “utterly absorbing … a magnificent achievement” (Gramophone) and “a fresh and invigorating survey for our times” (London’s The Times). Tonight’s program—part two of Levit’s complete sonata cycle at Carnegie Hall—features the intimate Op. 14 sonatas; the melodically rich, tonally unique Op. 78; the extremely popular and unusually programmatic “Les adieux” Sonata; and the Op. 7 Sonata, an often-overshadowed piece in this oeuvre, in which “Levit finds an energy and sparkle that lights it up … [he] reveals Beethoven the visionary” (Gramophone).
Performers
Igor Levit, Piano
Program
ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp Major, Op. 78
Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat Major, Op. 7
Piano Sonata No. 9 in E Major, Op. 14, No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 14, No. 2
Piano Sonata No. 26 in E-flat Major, Op. 81a, “Les adieux”
Igor Levit, Piano
Saturday, April 10, 2027 8 PM
Winner of numerous “Record of the Year” awards worldwide, Igor Levit’s cycle of Beethoven’s piano sonatas is “unfailingly alive, thoughtful, and rewarding at every turn” (Financial Times). Tonight’s program—part three of Levit’s complete cycle at Carnegie Hall—begins with Beethoven’s dramatic first Op. 10 sonata (in C minor), followed by the compact Op. 49 sonatas. The popular “Appassionata” Sonata “sounds newly minted” in Levit’s hands, says Gramophone, “emphasiz[ing] the visceral thrill of Beethoven’s writing.” The brief Op. 54 sonata, Levit writes in The Guardian, is “frequently overlooked, and yet no other sonata compares … [it] literally redefines the minuet.”
Performers
Igor Levit, Piano
Program
ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 19 in G Minor, Op. 49, No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 20 in G Major, Op. 49, No. 2
Piano Sonata No. 22 in F Major, Op. 54
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57, “Appassionata”
Igor Levit, Piano
Sunday, April 11, 2027 2 PM
Igor Levit “guides the public to the heart of Beethoven” (Le Figaro) with a piano sonata cycle for the ages. Tonight, experience part four of Levit’s complete cycle of Beethoven’s sonatas, which spans two seasons at Carnegie Hall. The performance begins with “The Tempest” Sonata, followed by Piano Sonata No. 11, which Beethoven considered the finest of his early sonatas. Piano Sonata No. 3—the last of the Op. 2 sonatas—is a grandly scaled work, with a finale whose “treacherous choral writing [is] dispatched with tremendous panache” by Levit (Gramophone). The concert concludes with the “Pathétique,” an all-time repertoire favorite that looks ahead to the Romantics in its intensity.
Performers
Igor Levit, Piano
Program
ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2, “The Tempest”
Piano Sonata No. 11 in B-flat Major, Op. 22
Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2, No. 3
Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13, “Pathétique”
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Tuesday, April 13, 2027 8 PM
Feel the excitement in the room as rising superstar violinist Himari, widely described as a generational talent, makes her Carnegie Hall debut. From its unaccompanied opening passage to the finale’s virtuoso fireworks, Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 offers a magnificent showcase for the young soloist’s technical accomplishments, emotional depth, and interpretive approach. Andris Nelsons also leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Prokofiev’s kinetic Fifth Symphony, an audience favorite described by the composer as “a symphony of the grandeur of the human spirit.”
Performers
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, Music Director and Conductor
Himari, Violin
Program
ALL-PROKOFIEV PROGRAM
Violin Concerto No. 2
Symphony No. 5
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Wednesday, April 14, 2027 8 PM
Brantley Gutierrez
Yo-Yo Ma joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, a repertoire cornerstone that Ma has revisited in breathtakingly poignant performances throughout his career. Andris Nelsons also conducts the orchestra in Richard Strauss’s grand symphonic tone poem Eine Alpensinfonie, in which an eventful Alpine mountain ascent is depicted across 22 continuous musical sections. Theirs has been called a “superb account,” combining Nelson’s thoughtful interpretation and the BSO’s “sheer sonic splendor” into a “deeply satisfying performance [that is] difficult to resist” (Gramophone).
Performers
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, Music Director and Conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, Cello
Program
ELGAR Cello Concerto
R. STRAUSS Eine Alpensinfonie
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Nobuyuki Tsujii Performs Chopin
Thursday, April 15, 2027 8 PM
Hear one of the world’s leading Chopin players, Nobuyuki Tsujii, as soloist in the composer’s Piano Concerto No. 2, an exciting early work notable for its Romantic middle movement and rollicking mazurka finale. Plus, enjoy one of Dvořák’s most expressive and masterfully crafted symphonic works: his Symphony No. 7. The exemplary Orchestra of St. Luke’s is conducted this evening by Daniele Rustioni, whose 2023 Carnegie Hall debut drew critical acclaim for his “dramatic impact” and “captivating presence … he brought excitement, as well as finesse, to the music” (New York Classical Review).
Performers
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Daniele Rustioni, Conductor
Nobuyuki Tsujii, Piano
Program
BUSONI Comedy Overture
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 7
Lang Lang, Piano
Friday, April 16, 2027 8 PM
Lang Lang is one of music’s most enduring megastars, an artist recognized worldwide for his “charismatic stage presence, passionate playing, and astounding technique” (The New York Times). The program’s first half includes a lively opening piece by Mozart, a dazzling tarantella from Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage, and selections from two of the best-loved staples in the Spanish classical repertoire: Albéniz’s evocative Suite española and Granados’s demanding Goyescas. In the concert’s second half, Lang Lang performs two of Beethoven’s timeless piano sonatas: No. 8, “Pathétique”; and his penultimate, Op. 110.
Performers
Lang Lang, Piano
Program
MOZART Rondo in D Major, K. 485
ALBÉNIZ Selections from Suite española
GRANADOS “Quejas, o La Maja y el ruiseñor” from Goyescas
LISZT “Tarantella da Guillaume Louis Cottrau” from Venezia e Napoli, supplément aux Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année: Italie
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13, “Pathétique”
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110
Maxim Vengerov, Violin
Martha Argerich, Piano
Friday, April 23, 2027 8 PM
In a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for New York audiences, Martha Argerich and Maxim Vengerov perform all 10 of Beethoven’s violin sonatas across three consecutive nights. Conceived as part of Vengerov’s artist-led Carnegie Hall Perspectives series, these performances mark the eminent duo’s debut at the Hall and Argerich’s first performances here in a decade.
Performers
Maxim Vengerov, Violin
Martha Argerich, Piano
Program
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas to be announced
Maxim Vengerov, Violin
Martha Argerich, Piano
Saturday, April 24, 2027 8 PM
In a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for New York audiences, Martha Argerich and Maxim Vengerov perform all 10 of Beethoven’s violin sonatas across three consecutive nights. Conceived as part of Vengerov’s artist-led Carnegie Hall Perspectives series, these performances mark the eminent duo’s debut at the Hall and Argerich’s first performances here in a decade.
Performers
Maxim Vengerov, Violin
Martha Argerich, Piano
Program
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas to be announced
Maxim Vengerov, Violin
Martha Argerich, Piano
Sunday, April 25, 2027 7 PM
In a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for New York audiences, Martha Argerich and Maxim Vengerov perform all 10 of Beethoven’s violin sonatas across three consecutive nights. Conceived as part of Vengerov’s artist-led Carnegie Hall Perspectives series, these performances mark the eminent duo’s debut at the Hall and Argerich’s first performances here in a decade.
Performers
Maxim Vengerov, Violin
Martha Argerich, Piano
Program
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas to be announced
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello
Benjamin Grosvenor, Piano
with
Hilary Hahn, Violin
Wednesday, April 28, 2027 8 PM
Experience an all-Beethoven performance by “global phenomenon” (The Telegraph) Sheku Kanneh-Mason, called “the most in-demand cellist in the world” (Bachtrack); and pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, acclaimed as one of the “50 best classical pianists on record” (Gramophone). Together, their Beethoven performances have been called “brilliant but refined” (Gramophone), and “impressive and engaging, brimming with refreshing, youthful charm” (The Classic Review). Then hear the duo expand into an all-star trio, as the great violinist Hilary Hahn joins in Beethoven’s inventive Piano Trio in G Major, Op. 1, No. 2.
Performers
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Cello
Benjamin Grosvenor, Piano
with
Hilary Hahn, Violin
Program
ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Seven Variations on “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen” after Mozart’s The Magic Flute
Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 5, No. 2
Piano Trio in G Major, Op. 1, No. 2
Yuja Wang, Piano
Friday, April 30, 2027 8 PM
Yuja Wang by Julia Wesely
Pianist Yuja Wang has been called “quite simply the most dazzlingly, uncannily gifted pianist in the concert world today” (San Francisco Chronicle), and she continues to reach even greater heights. After Wang’s recent Rachmaninoff marathon at Carnegie Hall, the Financial Times wrote that “the audience staggered out into the Manhattan dusk, as one, all changed; all humbled; all grateful for that ticket.” Enjoy this opportunity to hear her next recital at the Hall, one of the season’s most sought-after tickets.
MAY
The English Concert
Handel’s Alessandro (opera in concert)
Sunday, May 2, 2027 2 PM
Experience one of Carnegie Hall’s most popular annual highlights: The English Concert’s matinee performance of a Handel opera in concert. The Wall Street Journal calls it a “luxurious Sunday afternoon … impeccably cast and performed,” while The New York Times declared, “this ensemble sets a standard for Handel performance in the 21st century” after the 2025 edition. This year, in Handel’s Alessandro, the versatile virtuosos regale listeners with tales of Alexander the Great in India—and the significant time and energy consumed by his hapless romantic endeavors.
Performers
The English Concert
Harry Bicket, Artistic Director and Conductor
Christophe Dumaux, Alessandro
Xenia Puskarz Thomas, Rossane
Joélle Harvey, Lisaura
Hugh Cutting, Tassile
Alexander Chance, Cleone
Ashley Riches, Clito
Anthony Gregory, Leonata
Program
HANDEL Alessandro (opera in concert)
Oratorio Society of New York
BACH Mass in B Minor
Monday, May 3, 2027 7 PM
Bach’s Mass in B Minor is, by virtually any measure, one of the greatest achievements in Western music. The Oratorio Society of New York closes its season with a performance of this towering work. From the thunderous opening Kyrie to the hushed final Dona Nobis Pacem, it provides a triumphant conclusion to OSNY’s season.
Performers
Oratorio Society of New York
Kent Tritle, Music Director
Elisse Albian, Soprano
Lucia Bradford, Mezzo-Soprano
Maximillian Jansen, Tenor
Kevin Deas, Bass-Baritone
Program
J. S. BACH Mass in B Minor
Evgeny Kissin, Piano
Wednesday, May 5, 2027 8 PM
Hear an all-Beethoven recital performed by master pianist Evgeny Kissin. The program opens with Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 1, a fiery testament to the composer’s early genius on the keyboard. It’s followed by his experimental Piano Sonata No. 13, the Op. 27 companion piece to the “Moonlight Sonata.” Kissin then performs Beethoven’s monumental and virtuosic Diabelli Variations, in which the composer elevates a slight waltz tune into a colossal set of variations that journey from the comic to the tragic and profound.
Performers
Evgeny Kissin, Piano
Program
ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2, No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 13 in E-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 1, “quasi una fantasia”
Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli
Yunchan Lim, Piano
Tuesday, May 11, 2027 8 PM
With this performance, superstar pianist Yunchan Lim concludes his full cycle of Mozart’s 18 piano sonatas at Carnegie Hall. Following a swift Fantasia to open the performance, the program includes Mozart’s final four works in the genre: Piano Sonata in F Major, K. 533 / K. 494; Piano Sonata in C Major, K. 545 (also known—somewhat misleadingly—as the Sonata facile); Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 570; and the exceptionally difficult Piano Sonata in D Major, K. 576, also known as the “Hunt” Sonata.
Performers
Yunchan Lim, Piano
Program
ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Fantasia in C Minor, K. 396
Piano Sonata in F Major, K. 533 / K. 494
Piano Sonata in C Major, K. 545
Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 570
Piano Sonata in D Major, K. 576
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Mahler Symphony Cycle
Tuesday, May 18, 2027 7:30 PM
Yannick Nézet-Séguin continues his complete Mahler symphony cycle at Carnegie Hall with Symphony No. 3—the most ambitious of all Mahler’s creations. “Imagine a work of such magnitude that it actually mirrors the whole world,” the composer said of his masterpiece, which culminates in one of music’s most powerful climaxes after six breathtaking movements. “From the creation of the world, to the eternity of the last movement, [Mahler’s Third] is designed to embrace and embody the entire universe … Every time I conduct this, I cannot hold [back] my tears,” says Nézet-Séguin.
Performers
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music and Artistic Director
Karen Cargill, Mezzo-Soprano
Philadelphia Symphonic Choir
Commonwealth Youth Choir
Dominique DeSilva, Director
Philadelphia Boys Choir
Jeffrey R. Smith, Director
Philadelphia Girls Choir
Nathan Wadley, Director
Program
G. MAHLER Symphony No. 3
Evgeny Kissin, Piano
Maxim Vengerov, Violin
Gautier Capuçon, Cello
Sunday, May 23, 2027 2 PM
Hear three of the world’s leading instrumentalists share the stage for the first time at Carnegie Hall. Together, they perform a program of game-changing piano trios by Beethoven, featured as part of the Hall’s season-long exploration of the composer’s chamber works. The program begins with an intense early work from Beethoven’s first opus, which announced a bold new era for the piano and chamber music. The “Ghost” Trio follows, so named for its eerie, trembling evocations from the piano. The concert concludes with Beethoven’s final piano trio, the “Archduke,” a massively influential achievement known for its grand scale and unprecedented integration of instruments.
Performers
Evgeny Kissin, Piano
Maxim Vengerov, Violin
Gautier Capuçon, Cello
Program
ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM
Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 3
Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1, “Ghost”
Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97, “Archduke”
JUNE
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Mahler Symphony Cycle
Friday, June 4, 2027 7:30 PM
Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s conducts Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony as part of his complete Mahler symphony cycle. With its shimmering and pastoral awakening, spectacularly thunderous climax, and folk song and dance references both upbeat and twisted, Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 is an enduringly popular symphonic staple. Though The Philadelphia Orchestra is among the world’s finest Mahler interpreters today, it’s been more than 20 years since the ensemble has performed the First at Carnegie Hall. Tonight, experience its vital interpretation under Nézet-Séguin, plus a brief opening selection by Price and the New York premiere of Caroline Shaw’s The Observatory.
Performers
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music and Artistic Director
Program
PRICE “Rainbow Waltz” (orch. Valerie Coleman)
CAROLINE SHAW The Observatory (NY Premiere)
G. MAHLER Symphony No. 1
The Met Orchestra
Mahler Symphony Cycle
Thursday, June 10, 2027 7 PM
Experience one of the most awe-inspiring and grandly scaled orchestral works of all time, as Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Gustav Mahler’s rarely heard Symphony No. 8—the “Symphony of a Thousand”—for three consecutive performances at the Met Opera. Featuring The Met Orchestra and Met Chorus with a lineup of exceptional soloists, these performances are a thrilling part of Nézet-Séguin’s 2026–2027 Mahler symphony cycle, which also includes eight one-night-only concerts under his visionary direction at Carnegie Hall.
Performers
The Met Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music Director and Conductor
Angela Meade, Soprano
Elza van den Heever, Soprano
Erin Morley, Soprano
Ekaterina Gubanova, Mezzo-Soprano
Karen Cargill, Mezzo-Soprano
Russell Thomas, Tenor
Will Liverman, Baritone
Ryan Speedo Green, Bass-Baritone
The Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Tilman Michael, Director
The Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus
Anthony Piccolo, Director
Program
G. MAHLER Symphony No. 8
The Met Orchestra
Mahler Symphony Cycle
Friday, June 11, 2027 7 PM
Experience one of the most awe-inspiring and grandly scaled orchestral works of all time, as Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Gustav Mahler’s rarely heard Symphony No. 8—the “Symphony of a Thousand”—for three consecutive performances at the Met Opera. Featuring The Met Orchestra and Met Chorus with a lineup of exceptional soloists, these performances are a thrilling part of Nézet-Séguin’s 2026–2027 Mahler symphony cycle, which also includes eight one-night-only concerts under his visionary direction at Carnegie Hall.
Performers
The Met Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music Director and Conductor
Angela Meade, Soprano
Elza van den Heever, Soprano
Erin Morley, Soprano
Ekaterina Gubanova, Mezzo-Soprano
Karen Cargill, Mezzo-Soprano
Russell Thomas, Tenor
Will Liverman, Baritone
Ryan Speedo Green, Bass-Baritone
The Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Tilman Michael, Director
The Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus
Anthony Piccolo, Director
Program
G. MAHLER Symphony No. 8
The Met Orchestra
Mahler Symphony Cycle
Saturday, June 12, 2027 1 PM
Experience one of the most awe-inspiring and grandly scaled orchestral works of all time, as Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Gustav Mahler’s rarely heard Symphony No. 8—the “Symphony of a Thousand”—for three consecutive performances at the Met Opera. Featuring The Met Orchestra and Met Chorus with a lineup of exceptional soloists, these performances are a thrilling part of Nézet-Séguin’s 2026–2027 Mahler symphony cycle, which also includes eight one-night-only concerts under his visionary direction at Carnegie Hall.
Performers
The Met Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music Director and Conductor
Angela Meade, Soprano
Elza van den Heever, Soprano
Erin Morley, Soprano
Ekaterina Gubanova, Mezzo-Soprano
Karen Cargill, Mezzo-Soprano
Russell Thomas, Tenor
Will Liverman, Baritone
Ryan Speedo Green, Bass-Baritone
The Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Tilman Michael, Director
The Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus
Anthony Piccolo, Director
Program
G. MAHLER Symphony No. 8
The Met Orchestra
Mahler Symphony Cycle
Friday, June 18, 2027 8 PM
Yannick Nézet-Séguin completes his season-spanning cycle of Gustav Mahler’s symphonies with this performance of Symphony No. 6. The “elegant aggression” (The New Criterion) of Nézet-Séguin’s interpretation makes it among the most essential today, revealing breathtaking power in the beauty and brutality of the work. Enjoy this chance to experience the famed Met Orchestra as it steps out of the opera house and onto the same stage that held the US premiere of this Mahler masterwork.
Performers
The Met Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music Director and Conductor
Program
G. MAHLER Symphony No. 6
