Cadenza's Picks: November '23

Nov 1

Nov 1 Cadenza's Picks: November '23

92NY

Thur Nov 2. “Trailblazing” Imani Winds in their 92NY debut, with pianist Terrence Wilson, in an intriguing program including Louise Farrenc’s Sextet for Piano and Winds and Poulenc’s Sextet for Piano and Winds.

Fri Nov 10. Brooklyn Rider with Anne Sofie von Otter. Arrangements of music by Rufus Wainright are paired with Schubert.

Sun Nov 12 @ 2PM. Garrick Ohlsson plays Chopin.

Brooklyn Art Song Society

Fri Nov 3. The Wagnerians.

Carnegie Hall

Thurs Nov 2. Sergei Babayan, Daniil Trifonov’s teacher, plays a hefty program of Schumann, Liszt, and Rachmaninoff.

Fri Nov 3. Kronos Quartet’s 50th Anniversary Celebration.

Thurs Nov 9. In Zankel Hall, American Composer’s Orchestra presents The Quest: Epic Journeys, featuring the World Premiere of a Carnegie Hall co-commission, Nina C. Young’s Out of whose womb came the ice.

FREE. Sun Nov 12 @ 4PM, at St. Paul & St. Andrew United Methodist Church. The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble plays a West Side Story Suite for Brass Quintet and Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet.

The week of Nov 13 - 19 features one big name after another: Sir Bryn Terfel, Michael Feinstein, Sir András Schiff, and Sutton Foster & Kelli O’Hara with the New York Pops.

Weds, Nov 29. Opera’s superstar tenor Juan Diego Flórez.

Thurs Nov 30. Daniel Barenboim is slated to lead Staatskapelle Berlin in the first of a Brahms cycle.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Sat Nov 4. Rachmaninoff the Pianist. A substantial program of duo piano music, including Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, Debussy’s En blanc et noir, and Rachmaninoff’s Suite No. 2 in C Minor.

Tues Nov 14. Landmark Trios, three piano trios by three of the nineteenth century’s most quintessential personalities: Brahms, Clara Schumann, and Fanny Mendelsohnn.

Sun Nov 19. Quintet Odyssey. Farrenc’s Quintet in A Minor, Corigliano’s Soliloquy for Clarinet and String Quartet, Dvořák and Beethoven.

The Crypt Sessions

Nov 28 - 30. Sybarite5, a “genre-jumping” “fabulous five-some” with “musical roots that range from classical to rock, jazz to reggae, Armenian folk to the avant-garde, and everything in between.” At the Church of the Intercession.

Fort Greene Chamber Music Society

Sat Nov 18. St Luke and St Matthew Church. Mozart’s “Dissonance” Quartet , Rachmaninoff songs, and Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2.

GatherNYC

Sun Nov 19 @ 11AM. Museum of Arts and Design. Orpheus + Boyd Meets Girl.

House of Time

Thu, Nov 9 @ 7:30PM. The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens; Friday, November 10 @ 7:30PM. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. The Big Bang: Rameau's Zais and Handel's Fireworks

Merkin Concert Hall

Tues Nov 14 @ 2PM. “Tuesday Matinees.” Charles Overton, harp & Anthony Trionfo, flute play Poulenc, Piazzolla, Lowell Lievermann and more.

Sun Nov 19 @ 3PM. Musicians from The New York Philharmonic. Schubert’s String Quartet No. 9 in G minor,, Mozart’s Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola, and Cello in F major, K.370 and Dvořák’s Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65.

Tues Nov 28. Pianists Adam Tendler and Conor Hanick play “two piano works by seminal queer iconoclasts Steve Martland and Julius Eastman”

Metropolitan Opera

Nov 3 - 24. X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, Anthony Davis’s “groundbreaking and influential opera” from 1986.

Thur Nov 16. Met Premiere of Florencia en el Amazonas, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera “tells the enchanting story of a Brazilian opera diva.”