PREVIEW: November's Classical Music in NYC
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JACK Quartet celebrates its 20th anniversary with new music they’ve brought to the repertory, and the world premiere of Anthony Cheung’s Twice Removed.
Grammy-winning Pacifica Quartet presents American Snapshots: JFK, Vietnam, and Ellis Island. Dvořák’s “American” Quartet, and music by George Crumb and Samuel Barber (the quartet that gave us the Adagio for Strings).
Carnegie Hall
Mitsuko Uchida and Musicians from Marlboro play Kurtág, Beethoven, and Schumann’s Piano Quartet.
Orchestra of St. Luke’s under baton of Louis Langrée play Beethoven’s Seventh, Valerie Coleman’s Fanfare for Uncommon Times, and Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 with Sterling Elliott.
Berlin Philharmonic brings three concerts that include Hilary Hahn in Korngold’s Violin Concerto, Rachmaninoff’s rarely heard Isle of the Dead, Dvořák’s Seventh, and Bruckner’s Fifth. Conducted by Kirill Petrenko.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Matthew Polenzani sings Schwanengesang, Schubert’s mystical song cycle, and Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-flat.
Anne-Marie McDermott joins Virtuoso Winds in a varied program including Martinů and Poulenc.
Death of Classical
Tue Nov 19 at 7pm & 8:30 in the Crypt of the Church of the Intercession
Violinist Stefan Jackiw and pianist Jeremy Denk play Charles Ives’ two violin sonatas on the occasion of Ives’ 150th birthday.
Harlem Chamber Players
Fri Nov 22 at 7pm in Miller Theater at Columbia University
“The Harlem Bach Project:” conductor Kent Tritle leads an assortment of Bach, including the oboe concerto in C minor, with Setsuko Otake.
Kaufman Music Center
Violinist Daniel Rafimayeri plays a rich program including sonatas by Beethoven and Janáček.
Music Before 1800
Sat Nov 9 at 6:30 and 9pm at Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Early music consort from Britain, The Gesualdo Six, in in William Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices.
New York Philharmonic
Composer John Adams takes to the podium to conduct his own City Noir, as well as Copland’s Quiet City, Pärt’s Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten, and the NY premiere of Gabriela Smith’s Lost Coast.
People’s Symphony Concerts
Sat Nov 16 at 7:30 at Washington Irving
