PREVIEW: April's Classical Music in NYC
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Alisa Weilerstein, “one of the foremost cellists of our time,” plays two Bach suites, Kodály’s Sonata in B Minor, and a work composed for her by Joan Tower.
Jerusalem Quartet performs quartets by Haydn, Brahms and Shostakovich.
The “highly anticipated New York City mainstage debut” of Isidore String Quartet.
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Carnegie Hall
Juilliard Orchestra gets seriously French, with L. Boulanger’s D'un matin de printemps and music by Debussy, Ravel, and Boulez.
Frankfurt-based Ensemble Modern, in a program curated by, and featuring two works by, Tania León.
MasterVoices and Orchestra of St. Luke’s presents The Grapes of Wrath, the opera by Ricky Ian Gordon.
Danish String Quartet gives the NY Premiere of Thomas Adés’ Wreath for Franz Schubert.
Jakub Hrůša makes his Carnegie Hall debut conducting the Bamburg Symphony, joined by Hélène Grimaud in Schumann’s Piano Concerto.
Baritone Matthias Goerne and pianist Evgeny Kissin perform songs of Schumann and Brahms.
The Philadelphia Orchestra, under the baton of Nathalie Stutzmann, in Mozart’s Requiem and Schumann’s Fourth.
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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Orion String Quartet bids farewell with Schubert and late Beethoven.
Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat, Ravel’s Chansons madécasses, Respighi and Telemann.
Sonic Spectrum III: chamber music by living composers.
David Shifrin plays Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, in a program devoted to the composer.
Paul Huang, violin, Brook Spelt, cello, and Anne-Marie McDermott, piano. Glière, Poulenc, and Chaminade.
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Death of Classical
Apr 17 - 19 in The Great Hall under the Church of St. Mary
Tiergarten, an “immersive, subversive, underground cabaret” recreates a 1920’s Berlin speakeasy. Directed by Andrew Ousley.
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Harlem Chamber Players
Fri Apr 19 and Sat Apr 20 at the Met Museum on Fifth Ave
Violinist Edward W. Hardy, will perform music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and more.
Sat Apr 27 at Morris-Jumel Mansion
American Dreams Pop-Up Concert: music for woodwind quintet by Valerie Coleman, William Grant Still, Paquito D’Rivera and more.
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Merkin Concert Hall
Pegasus: The Orchestra celebrates Adam Khachaturian’s 120th Anniversary. Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite and Beethoven’s Seventh.
Chaeyoung Park plays Debussy’s Études (Book I), George Crumb’s A Little Suite for Christmas, and Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier.”
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Metropolitan Opera
Tue Apr 23 at 8pm, and assorted dates through May 17.
Marin Alsop conducts the Met premiere of John Adams’ El Niño.
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New York Philharmonic
Alice Sara Ott makes her NY Phil debut in Ravel’s G Major Piano Concerto. Karina Canellakis conducts, in a program also featuring Richard Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration and Scriabin’s The Poem of Ecstasy.
Thomas Søndergård conducts Prokofiev’s Fifth and the US Premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s Project 19 commission Keyframes for a Hippogriff – Musical Calligrams in memoriam Hester Diamond.
Hilary Hahn and the Sounds of Spain. Ravel, Ginastera, Sarasate, and Debussy.
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New York Repertory Orchestra
Sat Apr 6 at 8pm at Church of St. Mary the Virgin. FREE.
