Music:
Tyr and Fenrir by Saevar Rodine
Symphony No. 40 by W.A. Mozart

Overture and Scene 1 – Beginnings

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

Scene 40 – Interview with Jessica Mays on Our Vistion of the Future of the VYC

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

Joshua Bell joins the New York Philharmonic and Jaap van Zweden in a performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, a composition of dramatic emotional scope.
  
Jaap van Zweden, Conductor  
Joshua Bell, Violin

BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D major  

NPYTW 22-52
Performed November 24–27, 2021

Joshua Bell Plays Beethoven's Violin Concerto

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

Christoph von Dohnányi conducts the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, featuring pianist Paul Lewis

April 10-12, 2014

00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:44 - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1, I. Maestoso
00:27:08 - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1, II. Adagio
00:39:38 - Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1, III. Rondo (Allegro non troppo)
00:52:38 - Intro to Schumann
00:54:34 - Schumann: Symphony No. 2, I. Sostenuto assai; Un poco piu vivace
01:07:39 - Schumann: Symphony No. 2, II. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
01:14:47 - Schumann: Symphony No. 2, III. Adagio espressivo
01:24:34 - Schumann: Symphony No. 2, IV. Allegro molto vivace
01:33:12 - Closing Credits

Christoph von Dohnányi conducts Brahms and Schumann

Music Director Alan Gilbert conducts the last three symphonies by Mozart. 

00:00:00-Billboard and hand-off to Symphony No. 39
00:02:54-Mozart: Symphony No. 39 i: adagio-allegro
00:12:56-Mozart: Symphony No. 39 ii: andante con moto
00:20:35-Mozart: Symphony No. 39 iii: menuetto-trio
00:24:23-Mozart: Symphony No. 39 iv: allegro
00:32:17-Back-announcement and intro Symphony No. 40
00:33:21-Mozart: Symphony No. 40 i: molto allegro
00:40:33-Mozart: Symphony No. 40 ii: andante
00:47:19-Mozart: Symphony No. 40 iii: menuetto-allegretto
00:51:42-Mozart: Symphony No. 40 iv: finale-allegro assai
00:57:58-Back-announcement and intro to Symphony No. 41
00:59:11-Mozart: Symphony No. 41 i: allegro vivace
01:10:11-Mozart: Symphony No. 41 ii: andante cantabile
01:17:43-Mozart: Symphony No. 41 iii: menuetto-allegretto/trio
01:22:18-Mozart: Symphony No. 41 iv: molto allegro
01:30:38-Back-announcement and credits
TRT: 01:31:45

Mozart's Final Symphonies with Alan Gilbert

Principal cello Carter Brey is the soloist in the Dvořák concerto and we also hear him perform the Suite No. 1 for unaccompanied cello by Bach.  Also on the program: The Fate-obsessed Symphony No. 5 by Piotr Illych Tchaikovsky.  Music Director Alan Gilbert conducts. 

00:00:00-Billboard and intro concerto
00:02:19-Dvořák: Cello Concerto: I
00:18:00-Dvořák: Cello Concerto: II
00:30:38-Dvořák: Cello Concerto: III
00:43:48-back-announcement and intro Tchaikovsky
00:51:55-Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5: I
01:05:40-Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5: II
01:17:32-Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5: III
01:23:42-Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5: IV
01:35:51-back-announcement and intro Bach
01:39:07-Bach: Suite No. 1 for unaccompanied cello
01:53:59-back-announcement and credits
TRT: 01:55:46

Dvořák, Tchaikovsky & Bach

Former Music Director Zubin Mehta leads the Philharmonic in one of his signature works: the Symphony No. 8 in c-minor by Anton Bruckner.  The performance was originally given in January, 2012. 

00:00:00: Billboard and intro
00:06:16: Bruckner-Symphony No. 8: i
00:22:18: Bruckner-Symphony No. 8: ii
00:37:20: Bruckner-Symphony No. 8: iii (adagio)
01:04:54: Bruckner-Symphony No. 8: iv
01:27:50: Back-announcement and credits
TRT: 1:29:22

Zubin Mehta conducts Bruckner's Eighth Symphony

Soaring mountains, lush landscapes, and roguish adventures –  Richard Strauss’s the tone poems capture it all, an uses an enormous orchestra to depict them. Listen for changes in scene and weather in An Alpine Symphony as well as for the transformation of the mischievous motifs that accompany the pranks of the clever peasant Till Eulenspiegel. Alec Baldwin is your host.

R. STRAUSS:               An Alpine Symphony  

R. STRAUSS:               Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks  

Lorin Maazel, Conductor

Lorin Maazel Conducts an All-Strauss Program

Music Director Emeritus Kurt Masur leads the New York Philharmonic in the Third and Fourth Symphonies by Johannes Brahms in performances recorded live, at Avery Fisher Hall, in November, 2012.  Alec Baldwin is the host.

00:00:00: Billboard and intro to Third Symphony
00:01:42: BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3, i
00:12:57: BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3, ii
00:22:21: BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3, iii
00:29:23: BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3, iv
00:39:26: Back-announcement and intro Fourth Symphony
00:40:08: BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4, i
00:54:11: BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4, ii
01:06:18: BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4, iii
01:13:02: BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4, iv
TRT: ~01:24:11

Kurt Masur conducts two Symphonies by Brahms (Third & Fourth)

Rudolf Buchbinder is the soloist in the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2.  The second half of the concert features Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique."  Music Director Alan GIlbert conducts. 

00:00:00  Billboard & intro to Brahms
00:01:49  BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2, i
00:19:14  BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2, ii
00:28:06  BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2, iii
00:39:54  BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 2, iv
00:48:53  BRAHMS: Back-announce and Intro to Tchaikovsky
00:49:44  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, i
01:08:21  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, ii
01:16:04  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, iii
01:25:26  TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, iv
01:35:48  Back-announcement and credits
TRT: ~01:37:33




Gilbert & Buchbinder perform Tchaikovsky's "Pathétique" & Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2

The New York Philharmonic is joined by the New York Choral Artists (Joseph Flummerfelt, Director) for Giuseppe Verdi's Messa da Requiem.  The recording was made in January, 2015 and features an all-star quartet of soloists: Soprano Angela Meade; Mezzo-Soprano Lilli Paasikivi; Tenor Russell Thomas, and Bass-Baritone Eric Owens (the Philharmonic's 2015/16 Artist-in-Residence.) Music Director Alan Gilbert conducts. The broadcast host is Alec Baldwin. 

00:00:00 Billboard & intro to Verdi Requiem
00:06:56 No. 1 Requiem et Kyrie
00:15:59 No. 2 Dies irae
00:52:26 No. 3 Domine Jesu
01:01:55 No. 4 Sanctus
01:04:33 No. 5 Agnus Dei
01:09:33 No. 6 Lux aeterna
01:15:45 No. 7 Libera me
01:29:47 Back-announcement & Credits
TRT: ~01:31:25

Alan Gilbert conducts the Verdi Requiem

The New York Philharmonic is joined by soprano Dorothea Röschmann; mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter; tenor Steve Davislim, and 2015/16 Artist-in-Residence Eric Owens, bass-baritone, plus the New York Choral Artists for a complete performance of Bach's b-minor Mass.  Alec Baldwin is the program host and Alan Gilbert conducts.  

This music is also available commercially here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/j.s.-bach-mass-in-b-minor/id659361215



Alan Gilbert conducts Bach's B-minor Mass

Bramwell Tovey conducts this all-Tchaikovsky program captured when he led the Philharmonic at Bravo! Vail in Colorado during the summers of 2011 and 2012. Kirill Gerstein is the soloist in the Piano Concerto No. 1, and we also hear the 1812 Overture, selections from Swan Lake, and the Festival Coronation March. Alec Baldwin is your host.

TCHAIKOVSKY: Festival Coronation March    
Program notes: https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/f5b364e4-2f0f-404c-80ca-cc10491d3776-0.1/fullview#page/86/mode/2up

TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1    
Program notes: https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/ed8f8602-89d9-4d5b-8d32-57518ea1ba50-0.1/fullview#page/104/mode/2up

TCHAIKOVSKY: Selections from Act IV of Swan Lake    
Program notes: https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/f5b364e4-2f0f-404c-80ca-cc10491d3776-0.1/fullview#page/86/mode/2up

TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 Overture    
Program notes: https://archives.nyphil.org/index.php/artifact/f5b364e4-2f0f-404c-80ca-cc10491d3776-0.1/fullview#page/86/mode/2up

All-Tchaikovsky Program

Alec Baldwin hosts this journey of classical thrills and chills from the Philharmonic Archives.  You'll travel from the sinister heights of Bald Mountain, through a Journey Into the Abyss compliments of composers such as Mussorgsky, Berlioz, Gounod and J.S. Bach.  Listen on...if you dare!

Host: 		Alec Baldwin
Conductors: 	Arturo Toscanini (Bach); Alan Gilbert (Mussorgsky); Leonard Bernstein (Gounod, Liszt); Charles Dutoit (Berlioz); Lorin Maazel (closing theme)
Soloists: 	Paul Groves, tenor; Willard White, bass; Westminster Symphonic Choir; Charles Bressler, tenor; Chorale Art Society

E-mail us at radio@nyphil.org

MUSIC:
BACH (arr. H.J. WOOD):	Toccata and Fugue in d-minor, BWV 565 (from NYP Special Editions)
MUSORGSKY (arr. RIMSKY-KORSAKOV): Night on Bald Mountain (from iTunes Pass)
GOUNOD:			Ballet Music from Faust (Selections) ( from SMK 47600)
BERLIOZ:			Ride to the Abyss & Pandemonium from The Damnation of Faust	 (from NYP 05-28)

LISZT:	A Faust Symphony (from SMK-47570)

SAINT-SAENS:	Danse Macabre (used in place of usual theme music) (from NYP 09-15)



10 Liszt A Faust Symphony

04 Mussorgsky Night On Bald Mountain

During the Magic of Mozart Festival, in 2006, the Philharmonic marked the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth. On this concert Jeffrey Kahane leads two piano concertos from the keyboard, and the program concludes with Kahane conducting the Sinfonia concertante with Assistant Concertmaster Michelle Kim and Associate Principal Viola Rebecca Young as soloists. Alec Baldwin is your host.

Happy Birthday Mozart

Bernard Haitink leads the New York Philharmonic in the Symphony No. 9 by Gustav Mahler.  Alec Baldwin is your host. 

Haitink conducts Mahler's Ninth Symphony

The Symphony No. 1 by Jean Sibelius opens with a clarinet solo pining over softly rumbling timpani, revealing a theme that, after numerous heart-rending melodies and a playful scherzo, boldly returns in the final movement.  Xian Zhang conducts this November 2009 performance; Alec Baldwin is your host. 

SIBELIUS:  Symphony No. 1  
XIAN ZHANG, conductor

Sibelius's Symphony No. 1

This week's broadcast is dedicated to the music of  the great Finnish composer, Jean Sibelius, who lived from 1865 to 1957.  We hope you'll enjoy this sojourn through some of his greatest works, including the violin concerto, the Symphony No. 2, and some miniatures.  Alec Baldwin is your host.

SIBELIUS:	 Finlandia – Mehta
SIBELIUS:	 Pohjola’s Daughter-Bernstein
SIBELIUS:	 Violin Concerto – Francescatti and Bernstein

SIBELIUS:	 Pelleas et Melisande (2nd movement) –Beecham
SIBELIUS:	 Symphony No 2 – Maazel

A Sibelius Sojourn

In this week’s program we hear works by Sergei Rachmaninoff from throughout the Philharmonic’s recorded history, including Horowitz’s performance of the 3rd Piano Concerto under Eugene Ormandy.

RACHMANINOFF: Isle of the Dead, Op. 29
Kurt Masur, Conductor

RACHMANINOFF: Concerto for Piano No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
Vladimir Horowitz, Piano
Eugene Ormandy, Conductor

RACHMANINOFF: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27, II. Allegro molto
Artur Rodzinski, Conductor

Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff

Music Director Jaap van Zweden is joined by pianist Yefim Bronfman in a performance of Beethoven's 2nd piano concerto. The concert was recorded live on January 22, 2019, and concluded with Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2.

BEETHOVEN: Concerto for Piano No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19
Yefim Bronfman, Piano

RACHMANINOFF: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

Jaap van Zweden, Conductor

NYP 19-32

Host: Alec Baldwin
Producer: Mark Travis
Executive Producer: Vince Ford
Underwriters: Kaplan Brothers Fund; Audrey Love Charitable Foundation; The National Endowment for the Arts; MetLife Foundation

Photo credit: Chris Lee

Jaap van Zweden Conducts Beethoven and Rachmaninoff

This week we year one of the finest works in the choral literature, the German Requiem by Brahms. The Orchestra will be joined by the Concert Chorale of New York, soprano Ying Fang, and Artist-in-Residence Matthias Goerne as the baritone soloist. Music Director Jaap van Zweden conducts and Alec Baldwin is your host on The New York Philharmonic This Week.

BRAHMS: Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), Op. 45
Ying Fang, Soprano
Matthias Goerne, Baritone
Concert Chorale of New York
Jaap van Zweden, Conductor

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
Jaap van Zweden, Conductor

00:00:00 Opening and Introduction to Brahms
00:05:32 Brahms: Requiem, I. Selig sind, die da Leid tragen 
00:14:51 Brahms: Requiem, II. Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras 
00:27:58 Brahms: Requiem, III. Herr, lehre doch mich
00:37:14 Brahms: Requiem, IV. Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen
00:42:28 Brahms: Requiem, V. Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit
00:49:30 Brahms: Requiem, VI. Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt
01:00:12 Brahms: Requiem, VII. Selig sind die Toten
01:09:56 Back-announce to Brahms
01:10:30 Introduction to Tchaikovsky
01:14:37 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, I. Andante sostenuto — Moderato con anima
01:33:07 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, II. Andantino in modo di canzona
01:43:33 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, III. Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato — Allegro
01:49:12 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco
01:57:04 Closing and credits

NYP 19-34

Host: Alec Baldwin
Producer: Mark Travis
Executive Producer: Vince Ford
Underwriters: Kaplan Brothers Fund; Audrey Love Charitable Foundation; The National Endowment for the Arts

Photo credit: Chris Lee

Jaap van Zweden Conducts A German Requiem

Pierre Boulez served as music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1971 to 1977. His performances were noted for their accuracy and clarity — particularly in highly complex new music. He also impressed critics and audiences alike with fresh interpretations of traditional repertoire — especially the music of his countrymen. In this broadcast we hear Boulez conduct the score to the ballet La Péri by Paul Dukas.

And just because it's fun, we'll also hear Leonard Bernstein lead a performance of Beethoven's first piano concerto from the keyboard. Alec Baldwin is your host on the New York Philharmonic This Week.

NYP 20-02

Host: Alec Baldwin
Producer: Mark Travis
Executive Producer: Vince Ford
Underwriters: Kaplan Brothers Fund; Audrey Love Charitable Foundation; The National Endowment for the Arts

Photo credit: New York Philharmonic Leon Levy Digital Archives

Boulez Conducts Dukas — Bernstein Plays Beethoven

Performed by the New York Philharmonic Brass Quintet.

"Gravity" by Anthony Barfield

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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