PREVIEW: February's Classical Music in NYC
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Inon Barnatan, pianist, celebrates dance in music with a Rameau suite, Ravel Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, and the pianist’s own solo transcription of Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances.
Trio Zimbalist, and violist and president of Curtis Institute Roberto Díaz, in Fauré C-Minor Piano Quartet and Dvořák “Dumky” Trio.
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Brooklyn Art Song Society
Fri Feb 2 at 7:30pm at First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn
Their series Circles continues with part V, “The Minnesota Connection,” Dominick Argento The Andrée Expedition, along with American songs by Libby Larsen and others.
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Carnegie Hall
Sat Feb 3 at 8pm and Sun Feb 4 at 2pm
Zubin Mehta, Yefim Bronfman, and the Munich Philharmonic present two all-Brahms concerts.
Orchestra of St. Luke’s under the baton of Bernard Labadie, joined by violinist Isabelle Faust: Brahms Violin Concerto and Mozart Symphony No. 40.
Gianandrea Noseda leads the National Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven “Eroica,” along with Korngold Violin Concerto (soloist, James Ehnes) and Berg Lyric Suite.
Acclaimed Italian pianist Beatrice Rana plays Liszt Sonata in B Minor, and works by Scriabin, Debussy, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
Chamber ensemble The Knights contribute to Carnegie Hall’s Fall of the Weimar Republic festival a program of Ravel, Weill, Bob Dylan, Chico Buarque, and Du Yun.
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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Extraordinary Imaginations, a fascinating program of innovative early-20th Century music by Coleridge-Taylor, Bloch, and others.
Sacred and Profane explores chamber music by Debussy, Ravel, and Messiaen.
Anthony McGill joins for a program devoted to the friendship between Saint-Saëns and Fauré.
Calidore String Quartet opens the CMS Winter Festival with quartets by Mendelssohn and Britten.
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GatherNYC
Sun Feb 18 at 11am at Museum of Arts and Design
Duo Kayo, violist Edwin Kaplan and cellist Titilayo Ayangade, “blend the classical with the contemporary.”
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Harlem Chamber Players
Fri Feb 2 at 7pm at Third Street Music Settlement, and Sat Feb 24 at 4pm at Brooklyn Public Library
Hear Florence Price String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s String Quartet "Calvary,” and works by Carlos Simon, Rhiannon Giddens and others.
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Merkin Concert Hall
Pianist Awadagin Pratt plays Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Glass, and Pēteris Vasks.
Part of the series What Makes It Great?, Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition features pianist Adam Golka, accompanied by projections of the artwork that inspired the music.
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National Sawdust
Opera Evolved: Genre Fluidity. A panel discussion and performances of excerpts from El Niño and Sensorium Ex.
Fidelio Trio, a piano trio from Ireland, bring an “eclectic offering of works by Anna Clyne, Glass, Linda Buckley, David Fennessy, John Zorn, and Inti Figgis-Vizueta.”
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New York Festival of Song
Wed Feb 21 at 8pm at Merkin Hall
All Together Now, six centuries of vocal ensembles from the Renaissance to the present.
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New York Philharmonic
Jamie Bernstein narrates Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals, and Violinist Clara-Jumi Kang plays Bruch’s Violin Concerto in celebration of Lunar New Year.
Emanuel Ax premieres a new piano concerto by Swedish composer Anders Hillborg; Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3. Eun Sun Kim debuts on the podium.
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People’s Symphony Concerts
Sun Feb 4 at 2pm at The Town Hall
Pianist Zlata Chochieva plays Scriabin’s Second Piano Sonata, Schumann Waldszenen, Ravel Miroirs, Strauss, and Liszt.
Sun Feb 25 at 2pm at The Town Hall
RUCKUS, the dynamic Baroque ensemble, in Arcadian Visions: “18th-century works from Europe and New England celebrating, luxuriating in, and mourning the loss of the natural world.”
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The Unsung Collective
Fri Feb 9 at 7pm at Mother AME Zion Church
