PREVIEW: September in NYC's Classical Music Highlights

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American Classical Orchestra

Wed Sep 18 at 7:30 at Alice Tully Hall

Thomas Crawford and the ACO open their 40th Season with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and Fourth Piano Concerto with Petra Somlai on fortepiano.

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Bargemusic

Fri Sep 13 at 6pm

Thomas Mesa, cello, and Ilya Yakushev, piano, play Boulanger, Massenet, Kapustin, and Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata.

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Carnegie Hall

Sat Sep 28 at 8pm

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and pianist Garrick Ohlsson. Mozart’s “Jeunehomme” Concerto and a new work by Billy Childs.

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Chelsea Symphony

Fri Sep 20 & Sat 21 at 8pm at DiMenna Center

Aspiration.William Grant Still Symphony No. 1, “Afro-American,” Brahms Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, and Aidan Gold Swallowtail.

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Death of Classical’s The Angel’s Share

Sep 5 - 7 Two performances each evening in the Catacombs of Greenwood Cemetery.

Fourth Wall Ensemble performs Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Partita for 8 Voices.

Sep 12 - 14. Two performances each evening.

“Brooklyn-based songwriter, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and scholar” Gelsey Bell in mɔɹnɪŋ, her own opera.

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Harlem Chamber Players

Fri Sep 27 at 7pm at Broadway Presbyterian Church

Iconic Classics. Brahms String Quintet in G Major, Mahler Piano Quartet in A Minor, Prokofiev String Quartet No. 1 in B Minor, and Arvo Pärt Fratres for Violin and Piano.

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Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players

Mon Sep 9 at 2 and 7:30pm at Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church

Mad About Schumann. Chamber music by Huber, Reinecke, Jadassohn, and Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-flat major.

Mon Sep 23 at 2 & 7:30pm

Crème de la Crème. Yost, Chaminade, Poulenc, and Faurè’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor.

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Merkin Concert Hall

Tue Sep 24 at 7:30pm

Ethel, Grammy winning string quartet, in a New Sounds Live co-presentation hosted by WNYC’s John Schaefer.

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Metropolitan Opera

Mon Sep 23 at 6:30pm

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the season opener, Grounded, a new commission from Broadway composer Jeanine Tesori (based on librettist George Brant’s play). Featuring mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo.

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New York Festival of Song

Sun Sep 29 at 3pm at (the soon to close) Rubin Museum of Art

Learning, Fast and Slow: mezzo-soprano Blythe Gaissert and soprano Britt Hewitt perform contemporary art song for voice and bassoon by Kamala Sankaram and LJ White, with bassoonist Steven Palacio.

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New York Philharmonic

Sep 12 - 15

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Mahler’s Fifth, joined by Emanuel Ax for Mozart’s 14th Piano Concerto.

Sep 19 & 21

Ken-David Masur conducts a program “curated by NY Phil Musicians:” Mahler’s transcriptions of Bach, Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis, and the world premiere of Augusta Read Thomas’s tribute to Duke Ellington.

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Trinity Church

Thu Sep 19 at 5:30 & 6:30

Three Parts Upon a Ground, a “Tiny Concert” featuring Gabrielo, Purcell, and the original iteration of Pachelbel’s infamous and ubiquitous Canon.

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