Cadenza's Picks: October 2023

92NY

Oct 12-13. Audra McDonald, Musings through Music with Andy Einhorn.

Oct 20. Cellist Jay Campbell and pianist Conor Hanick perform the world premiere of the latest work in Marcos Balter’s Three Enigmas, along with Poulenc’s Cello Sonata.

Brooklyn Art Song Society

Oct 6. Clara, Robert, & Johannes, a “portrait of one of Music’s most famous love triangles” via selected songs, including Dichterliebe.

Carnegie Hall

October 4. Opening Night Gala. Chicago Symphony and Ricardo Muti play Pictures from an Exhibition, and Leonidas Kavakos joins in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. A different program follows on the 5th.

Oct 12. Orchestra of St. Luke’s is joined by Lang Lang, in a program that will include the Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No 2 and Carnival of the Animals.

Oct 14. Saxophonist Branford Marsalis joins Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in a program including Ibert’s rarely heard Concertino da camera.

Oct 17. In Stern Auditorium, Yannick Nezet-Seguin leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in Rachmaninoff and Higdon. Meanwhile, in Weill Recital Hall, pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason makes her solo debut.

Oct 19. Belcea Quartet plays Beethoven, Debussy, and Bartók in Zankel Hall.

Oct 20. In Stern Auditorium, Sphinx Virtuosi in a program of new music for strings, while in Zankel, jazz legend Kenny Barron.

Oct 24. Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano, Lisa Batiashvili, violin, and Gautier Capuçon, cello, play Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Ravel Piano Trios.

Oct 26. English Baroque Soloists performs Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, Carnegie Hall’s first complete performance since 1895.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Oct 17. String Sonorities.

Oct 19. Chad Hoopes and Anne-Marie McDermott play Mozart, Beethoven (the Kreutzer), and Fauré.

The Crypt Sessions

Oct 10-11. Pianist Maxim Lando plays the US premiere of Lowell Liebermann's Frankenstein Suite.

Oct 24. Bach’s Goldberg Variations performed on the accordion by Hanzhi Wang.

House of Time

Oct 6 -7. Classical Zeitgeist: Mozart and Haydn Go Traveling, featuring Haydn's London Trios and Mozart's Oboe Quartet.

Merkin Concert Hall

Oct 10 - 11. VOCES8 performs music of the Renaissance.

Oct 12. Einav Yarden plays music of J.S. Bach and his son C.P.E. Bach.

New York Philharmonic

September 29 - Oct 1. Joshua Bell, Copland, and The Elements.

Oct 5 - 7. Jaap van Zweden conducts. Leif Ove Andsnes joins in Beethoven’s Emperor; the World Premiere of Steve Reich’s Jacob’s Ladder (a NY Phil co-commission); Schubert’s Unfinished.

Oct 11 - 14. Daniil Trifonov plays Schumann; Raminta Šerkšnytė’s De Profundis.

Oct 19-21. Bronfman plays a new concerto by Elena Firsova; Brahms Serenade.

Oct 25-26. Jeanette Sorrell conducts Handel’s Israel in Egypt.

New York Repertory Orchestra

Oct 14. Chaminade’s "Callirhoë" Suite; José White Lafitte’s Violin Concerto, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2 “Ukrainian.”

People’s Symphony Concerts

Oct 28. East Coast Chamber Orchestra and pianist Shai Wosner give the world premiere of Vijay Iyer’s Piano Concerto.

Tertulia

Oct 8. Autumn in NYC at elegant Italian restaurant Alba Accanto. A chamber program culminating in Mendelssohn’s String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13.