PREVIEW: December's Classical Music in NYC

Nov 27

Nov 27 PREVIEW: December's Classical Music in NYC

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Weds Dec 6. Conrad Tao, piano: Rachmaninoff Songbook

Thur Dec 14. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with Anthony McGill, clarinet: American Dream, featuring Copland’s Clarinet Concerto

Sat Dec 16. JACK Quartet with Tyshawn Sorey, percussion, featuring the US Premiere of Sorey’s For Grachan Moncur III

Sun Dec 17 @ 2pm. The New York Philharmonic String Quartet, and Emanuel Ax, piano, play Debussy & Schumann

American Classical Orchestra

Thur Dec 14. Gesù Nato, A Christmas Oratorio. Music by Bencini and Gianettini, at Corpus Christi Church.

American Symphony Orchestra

Thur Dec 14 @ 7pm. Handel’s other oratorio, Judas Maccabaeus, set amidst the story of Hanukkah, at Riverside Church.

Brooklyn Art Song Society

Fri Dec 1. The Second Viennese School

Carnegie Hall

Sat Dec 2 @ 2pm. Jenny Lin, piano. Stravinsky’s Piano Sonata, and works by Silvestrov, Liszt, Glass, and Shostakovich.

Thur Dec 7 @ 7pm. Orchestra of St. Luke’s performs Bach’s Christmas Oratorio

Mon Dec 11. Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble in a varied program including Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet in F-sharp Minor, Op. 67.

Mon Dec 18 @ 7pm. Oratorio Society of New York. Handel’s Messiah.

Sun Dec 24 & Thur Dec 28. New York String Orchestra in two programs, the first is all-Mozart, including the Sinfonia concertante, the second featuring Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto and Beethoven 7.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Fri Dec 1 & Sun Dec 3. Baroque Collection.

Fri - Tue Dec 15-19. Brandenburg Concertos.

The Crypt Sessions

Dec 8, 11 & 12. David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion performed by Ekmeles, the recipients of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation’s 2023 Ensemble Prize

Merkin Concert Hall

Thurs Dec 7. Jeremy Denk plays Missy Mazzoli, Phyllis Chen and Fanny Mendelssohn

Sun Dec 10 @ 3pm. The New York Philharmonic Ensembles plays Dohnányi ‘s Piano Quintet No. 1 and Brahms' Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B minor, Op. 115

Tues Dec 12 @ 2pm. Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective also plays the Dohnányi Quintet, alongside works by Puccini, Coleridge-Taylor and Florence Price.

Metropolitan Opera

Dec 8 - Dec 30. Mozart’s The Magic Flute - Holiday Presentation, “the Met’s family-friendly production of Mozart’s dazzling fairy tale returns, sung in English and running under two hours.”

Dec 29 - Jan 26. Verdi’s Nabucco, “a classic Met staging of biblical proportions.”

New York Festival of Song

Tues Dec 5 GRACIAS A LA VIDA, A musical tour of South America.

Tues Dec 12 @ 7pm. A GOYISHE CHRISTMAS TO YOU! NYFOS’s beloved holiday tradition: Yuletide songs by Jewish composers.

New York Philharmonic

Dec 6 -9. Andres Orozco-Estrada conducts Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, Enescu’s Romanian Rhapsody No. 1, Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin Suite, Edgar Moreau in Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1

Dec 12 - 16. Handel’s Messiah

Dec 16 - 17. Holiday Brass

Dec 20 - 23. Marvel Studios’ Black Panther in Concert. The season’s first installment in The Art of the Score series.