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In partnership with Carnegie Hall and WQXR, American Public Media presents a series of twelve national broadcasts of the world's foremost ensembles, soloists, and recitalists from the three stages of Carnegie Hall.

2013-2014 Season

Wednesday, July 22, 2014 at 7:00 PM

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America
David Robertson, Conductor
Gil Shaham, Violin

BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

BRITTEN Violin Concerto, Op. 15

SAMUEL ADAMS Radial Play (commissioned by Carnegie Hall)

MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

 

 

Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 7:00 PM

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Robert Spano, Music Director and Conductor
Evelina Dobracheva, Soprano
Anthony Dean Griffey, Tenor
Stephen Powell, Baritone
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Norman Mackenzie, Director
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Dianne Berkun-Menaker, Artistic Director

BENJAMIN BRITTEN War Requiem Op. 66

 

 

Sunday, March 16, 2014 at 6:00 pm (recorded on February 2)

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
THE ENGLISH CONCERT
Harry Bicket, Artistic Director
Dorothea Röschmann, Soprano (Theodora)
Sarah Connolly, Mezzo-Soprano (Irene)
David Daniels, Countertenor (Didymus)
Andrew Kennedy, Tenor (Septimius)
Neal Davies, Bass-Baritone (Valens)
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Julian Wachner, Director of Music and the Arts

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Theodora (concert performance)

 

Friday, February 28, 2014 at 8:00 pm

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music Director and Conductor
Johannes Moser, Cello

Program to include:
R. STRAUSS Metamorphosen
SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"

 

Wednesday, February 26 at 7:00 pm
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC
Franz Welser-Möst, Conductor

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No. 28 in C Major, K. 200
JOHANNES MARIA STAUD On Comparative Meteorology
ANTON BRUCKNER Symphony No. 6 in A Major

 

Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at 7:00 pm

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Bernard Haitink, Conductor
Murray Perahia, Piano

HENRY PURCELL/STEVEN STUCKY Funeral Music for Queen Mary
ROBERT SCHUMANN Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54
JOHANNES BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98

Saturday, January 18, 2014 at 6:30pm

Zankel Hall
TAKáCS QUARTET
Edward Dusinberre, Violin
Károly Schranz, Violin
Geraldine Walther, Viola
András Fejér, Cello

ALL-BARTóK PROGRAM
String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7
String Quartet No. 3
String Quartet No. 5

Monday, November 18, 2013 at 6:30pm

Zankel Hall
ARCANGELO
Jonathan Cohen, Conductor
Alina Ibragimova, Violin
Katherine Watson, Soprano
Nikolay Borchev, Baritone

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A Minor, BWV 1041
JOHANN CHRISTIAN BACH Passacaglia "Mein freund ist mein"
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Concerto Grosso in D Minor, Op. 6, No. 10
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Apollo e Dafne

 

Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at 7:00 pm

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director and Conductor
Jeremy Denk, Piano

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 3
STEVEN MACKEY Eating Greens
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503
AARON COPLAND Symphonic Ode

 

Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at 6:00 pm

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
CARNEGIE HALL'S OPENING NIGHT GALA
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music Director and Conductor
Joshua Bell, Violin
Esperanza Spalding, Vocals and Double Bass

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY Slavonic March, Op. 31
CAMILLE SAINT-SAëNS Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28
MAURICE RAVEL Tzigane
CAMILLE SAINT-SAëNS Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila
ESPERANZA SPALDING Apple Blossom (arr. Gil Goldstein, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
LEONARDO GENOVESE Chacarera (arr. Gil Goldstein, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
DIMITRI TIOMKIN Wild is the Wind (arr. Gil Goldstein, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
MAURICE RAVEL Boléro