In this broadcast of the opening concert of the 2021-22 Season, Daniil Trifonov joined Music Director Jaap van Zweden as soloist in Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto. In addition, Mohagany L. Browne premiered her poem "A Country of Water," commissioned by the New York Philharmonic.  Alec Baldwin is your host.

Mahogany L. BROWNE / A Country of Water
Mahogany L. Browne, speaker and poet

BEETHOVEN / Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major
Daniil Trifonov, piano
Jaap van Zweden, Conductor

Recorded September 18, 2021

Major Support for The New York Philharmonic This Week is provided by The Kaplen Brothers Fund with support from the Audrey Love Charitable Foundation.

NYP 22-50

Daniil Trifonov Plays Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto

Australian conductor Simone Young leads the New York Philharmonic in a performance of Brahms's melody-rich Symphony No. 1 in C minor. Recorded in November of 2021 at Alice Tully Hall.

Simone Young, Conductor  

BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1 in C minor 

NYPTW 22-51
Performed November 11–13, 2021

Simone Young Conducts Brahms's Symphony No. 1

Music Director Jaap van Zweden conducts a gorgeous program of Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Respighi’s Pines of Rome. Conrad Tao presents a thrilling performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17, with a special encore rendition of Billy Strayhorn’s jazz standard Lush Life. Recorded at the state-of-the-art McKnight Center during the orchestra's residency at Oklahoma State University.

Jaap van Zweden, conductor 
Conrad Tao, piano 

Debussy / Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) 
Mozart / Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K.453 
Strayhorn / Lush Life (Encore) 
Respighi / Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome) 
McCulloh / Alma Mater Hymn (Ballenger, William) (Encore)

NYPTW 23-09
Performed 9/25/22

Conrad Tao and Jaap van Zweden Perform Debussy, Mozart, and Respighi

This week we present the very first work that was performed in the new Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall to help fine-tune the acoustics: Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22 opens the broadcast with the orchestra’s longtime friend and former artist-in-residence, Yefim Bronfman, as soloist. 

Jaap van Zweden, conductor 
Yefim Bronfman, piano 

Mozart / Piano Concerto No. 22 
Bruckner / Symphony No. 7

Performance Date: 11/2/2022 
NYPTW 23-14

Bronfman and van Zweden Perform Mozart & Bruckner

Join the NY Phil holiday tradition, the Messiah of Messiahs! Dazzling vocal solos, instrumental fireworks, and splendid choral writing combine to make this oratorio the musical crown of the season. Baroque specialist Masaaki Suzuki conducts.

Masaaki Suzuki, conductor 
Sherezade Panthaki, soprano 
Reginald Mobley, countertenor 
Leif Auruhn Solén, tenor 
Jonathon Adams, baritone 
Handel and Haydn Society Chorus, Harry Christophers, artistic director 

Handel / Messiah 

NYPTW 23-28
Performed 12/13/2022

Masaaki Suzuki Conducts Handel’s Messiah

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor

Muti Conducts Mozart & Prokofiev - Broadcast

My recording of Phillip Glass' Metamorphosis I at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, recording by Jake Bragg.

Phillip Glass - Metamorphosis I

Górecki- Symphony 3, Op. 36, -Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs

You can learn to play this piece. FREE scores and parts, among other materials, are available online: kronosquartet.org/fifty-for-the-future

Composed by Philip Glass
© 2017 Kronos Arts Publishing
℗ 2018 Kronos Performing Arts Association
Commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire

Produced by Kronos Quartet and Reshena Liao
Recorded March 2018 at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, CA
Engineered and mixed by Zach Miley
Assistant engineer: Gabriel Shepard
Mixed by Zach Miley and David Harrington at Decibelle Recording, San Francisco, CA

Quartet Satz

Philip Glass - Quartet Satz

Concertos for Flute, Oboe and Bassoon
Performers - Tamás Vásary/Philharmonia Orchestra
Composer - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Flute Concerto No.1 in G Major, K313: Allegro Maestoso

Julia Fischer is your soloist in Mozart’s most popular violin concerto, nicknamed Turkish for the effect of strings playing with the backs of their bows to imitate the drums of Ottoman soldiers. Plus Brahms’s gripping First Symphony, decades in the making; you’ll feel the composer’s dramatic struggle that led to the final triumph of this mighty achievement. Alec Baldwin is your host.

DVOŘÁK: Carnival Overture     
Alan Gilbert, Conductor

Program Notes: https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/b9ce4eea-47aa-4255-bd26-7a12397d9663-0.1/fullview#page/4/mode/2up

MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish
Lorin Maazel, Conductor
Julia Fischer, Violin

Program Notes: https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/62ec66f1-1fb9-4b14-90d0-afffcaf2be2c-0.1/fullview#page/6/mode/2up

BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1    
Jaap van Zweden, Conductor

Program Notes: https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/2b497f71-591c-4ab7-8adf-65e77bd9f546-0.1/fullview#page/8/mode/2up

This program is supported in part by the E. Nakamichi Foundation.

Dvořák, Mozart, and Brahms

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Bronfman and van Zweden Perform Mozart & Bruckner

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