WELCOME GUSTAVO
Gustavo Dudamel’s Inaugural Gala
September 30
Join us to celebrate the arrival of Gustavo Dudamel as our Tang Music & Artistic Director.
Joined by Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell, singing selections from Sondheim’s Company and more, and pianist Sergio Tiempo, whose New York Philharmonic debut was “scintillating and virtuosic” (The New York Times), Gustavo explores his bold vision for the Philharmonic’s future with works by composers from across the Americas, including Ellington, Ginastera, Gabriela Ortiz, Gabriela Lena Frank, and more.
OCTOBER
Lang Lang & Gustavo Dudamel
October 1
Join Gustavo Dudamel and superstar pianist Lang Lang, called “the hottest artist on the classical music planet” by The New York Times, for this one-night-only event featuring Beethoven’s majestic Emperor Concerto.
Zosha Di Castri’s Invisible House, inspired by the composer’s Ukrainian heritage through folk song melodies, poems by Ilya Kaminsky, and her own great-grandfather’s life, demonstrates art’s essential value in troubled times.
Program
Zosha Di Castri
Invisible House
(Co-Commission with New York Philharmonic and Los Angeles Philharmonic)
Mahler
Adagietto, from Symphony No. 5
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor
Yo-Yo Ma & Gustavo Dudamel
October 2
The beloved cellist joins Gustavo Dudamel and the Orchestra for Osvaldo Golijov’s Azul, the Argentine composer’s luminous soundscape that evokes the tranquility and quiet wonder of the natural world.
Complementing this work are music from Mahler’s impassioned Fifth Symphony and Imágenes Mestizas, Pulitzer Prize winner Tania León’s exploration of sounds from across the Americas.
Program
Tania León
Imágenes Mestizas
(New York Philharmonic Commission)
Mahler
Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
Osvaldo Golijov
Azul, for Cello and Orchestra
Batiashvili, Capuçon & Thibaudet
In an eagerly awaited Artist Spotlight, a stellar trio — Lisa Batiashvili, Gautier Capuçon and Jean-Yves Thibaudet — explores the rich inspiration three composers brought to the piano trio.
Shostakovich and Debussy wrote their trios before age 20, offering early glimpses of their later styles. Dvořák’s trio, by contrast, is a mature work and one of his most emotionally powerful compositions.
Program
Shostakovich
Piano Trio No. 1
Debussy
Piano Trio
Dvořák
Piano Trio No. 3
NOVEMBER
November 4
November 5
November 7
Thibaudet Performs Liszt
The “superb pianist” (The New York Times) Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins Rafael Payare and the Orchestra for Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with its tender opening giving way to an extroverted role for the solo piano culminating in a fiery finale. With his final symphony, unfinished at his death, Bruckner pushes the boundaries of 19th-century harmony in this work of tremendous emotional power.
Program
Liszt
Concerto No. 2
Bruckner
Symphony No. 9
Frank Huang Performs Mendelssoh
November 19
November 20
November 21
Concertmaster Frank Huang is the soloist in Felix Mendelssohn’s lyrical Violin Concerto.
Roberto González-Monjas also conducts Korngold’s sumptuous orchestral Theme and Variations and colorful Straussiana, an homage to Viennese waltz luminary Johann Strauss II. The heart of Vienna also beats strongly in the lilting waltzes of Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier Suite.
Program
Korngold
Theme and Variations
Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto
Korngold
Straussiana
R. Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Rouvali Conducts Schubert’s Great Symphony
November 25
November 27
November 28
The seamless flow of beautiful melodies, spirited rhythms, and colossal scale make Schubert’s Great Symphony one of the milestones of the Romantic period.
Principal Bassoon Judith LeClair performs the World Premiere of Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts’s Bassoon Concerto. Florence Price drew her inspiration from African American rhythms in her Dances in the Canebreaks.
Program
Price / Orch. Still
Dances in the Canebrakes
Kevin Puts
Bassoon Concerto
(World Premiere–New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra)
Schubert
Symphony No. 9, Great
DECEMBER
Rouvali Conducts Schubert’s Great Symphony
December 1
Bruce Liu Performs Tchaikovsky
December 3
December 4
December 5
Chopin Piano Competition winner Bruce Liu returns, this time performing Tchaikovsky’s rarely heard Piano Concerto No. 2.
Nielsen’s The Inextinguishable Symphony closes the concert with elemental force, raging with snarling brass and culminating in a thunderous duel of timpani. Conductor Ryan Bancroft makes his New York Philharmonic debut.
Program
Gubaidulina
Fairytale Poem
Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 2
Nielsen
Symphony No. 4, The Inextinguishable
