2016–17 chronological listing

UPDATED July 27, 2016

Updates Are Bold

CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING

2016–17 SEASON

THE ART OF THE SCORE: FILM WEEK AT THE PHILHARMONIC

Alec Baldwin, THE ART OF THE SCORE Artistic Advisor

WEST SIDE STORY

David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, September 15, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

David Newman, conductor

BERNSTEIN West Side Story (score performed live to complete film)

THE ART OF THE SCORE: FILM WEEK AT THE PHILHARMONIC

Alec Baldwin, THE ART OF THE SCORE Artistic Advisor

MANHATTAN


Friday, September 16, 2016, 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, September 17, 2016, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor

GERSHWIN Manhattan (World Premiere–score performed

live to complete film)

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: 175TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

OPENING GALA CONCERT


Wednesday, September 21, 2016, 7:30 p.m.


Aaron Diehl*, piano

John CORIGLIANO Stomp for Orchestra (New York Premiere)

GERSHWIN Concerto in F

DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, From the New World

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: DVOŘÁK’S SYMPHONY NO. 9, FROM THE NEW WORLD




Saturday, September 24, 2016, 8:00 p.m.


Lisa Batiashvili, violin

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto


ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: JOHN CORIGLIANO’S STOMP AND MOZART WITH

ANTHONY MCGILL


Tuesday, September 27, 2016, 7:30 p.m.


Anthony McGill, clarinet

John CORIGLIANO Stomp for Orchestra

MOZART Clarinet Concerto


* New York Philharmonic debut

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: BERLIOZ WITH MAGDALENA KOŽENÁ




Saturday, October 1, 2016, 8:00 p.m.


Magdalena Kožená*, mezzo-soprano

BERLIOZ Les Nuits d’été

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 5


Wednesday, October 5, 2016, 7:30 p.m.


Christopher Martin*, trumpet

BARTÓK Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta

LIGETI Mysteries of the Macabre, for Trumpet and Orchestra

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: BEETHOVEN WITH LANG LANG; LIGETI AND BARTÓK


Thursday, October 6, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, October 7, 2016, 8:00 p.m.



Christopher Martin, trumpet

Lang Lang, piano

LIGETI Mysteries of the Macabre, for Trumpet and Orchestra

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4



NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ENSEMBLES AT MERKIN CONCERT HALL

Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center

129 West 67th Street

Sunday, October 9, 2016, 3:00 p.m.

SHOSTAKOVICH/Arr. Atomyan Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano

Elizabeth Zeltser, Shanshan Yao, violin; piano tba

Behzad RANJBARAN Dance of Life for Violin and Double Bass

Duoming Ba, violin; Satoshi Okamoto, double bass

MOZART Quintet for Piano and Winds

Sherry Sylar, oboe; Pascual Martínez Forteza,

clarinet; Kim Laskowski, bassoon; R. Allen Spanjer,

horn; Yi-Fang Huang§, piano

BRAHMS Piano Quintet

Anna Rabinova, Hannah Choi, violin; Rebecca

Young, viola; Alexei Yupanqui Gonzales, cello; Joy

Cline Phinney§, piano

CIRCLE MAP AT PARK AVENUE ARMORY

Presented by Park Avenue Armory

Wade Thompson Drill Hall

Park Avenue Armory

643 Park Avenue (between 66th and 67th Streets)


Friday, October 14, 2016, 7:00 p.m.

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Jennifer Zetlan, soprano

Kari Kriikku, clarinet

Pierre Audi*, director

Kaija SAARIAHO Lumière et Pesanteur (New York Premiere)

Kaija SAARIAHO D’OM LE VRAI SENS, for Clarinet and Orchestra

(New York Premiere)

Kaija SAARIAHO Lonh, for soprano and electronics

Kaija SAARIAHO Circle Map (New York Premiere)

§ New York Philharmonic guest artist


ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE LEONIDAS KAVAKOS CONDUCTS AND PERFORMS



Friday, October 21, 2016, 11:00 a.m.


Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

Leonidas Kavakos†, conductor / violin

J.S. BACH Violin Concerto in D minor (reconstructed), BWV 1052

BUSONI Berceuse élégiaque

SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2

YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERT


The Ages of Music: “Baroque”


Joshua Gersen, conductor

Leonidas Kavakos, conductor / violin (Violin Concerto)

Theodore Wiprud, host

Program to include selections from:

J.S. BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3

J.S. BACH Violin Concerto in D minor (reconstructed), BWV 1052

J.S. BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

† New York Philharmonic conducting debut

PABLO HERAS-CASADO AND CONCERTMASTER FRANK HUANG IN BRUCH



Friday, October 28, 2016, 11:00 a.m.


Tuesday, November 1, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor

Frank Huang, violin

BARTÓK Dance Suite

BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1

DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 7

ZUBIN MEHTA AND ANOUSHKA SHANKAR DEBUT


Thursday, November 3, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, November 4, 2016, 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, November 5, 2016, 8:00 p.m.

Zubin Mehta, conductor

Anoushka Shankar*, sitar

R. SHANKAR Rāgā-Mālā Concerto No. 2, for Sitar and Orchestra

SCHUBERT Symphony in C major, Great


VLADIMIR JUROWSKI AND DANIIL TRIFONOV IN MOZART


Wednesday, November 9, 2016, 7:30 p.m.




Vladimir Jurowski, conductor

Daniil Trifonov, piano

Manhattan School of Music Symphonic Chorus and Chamber Choir

Kent Tritle, director

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25

RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé (complete ballet)

ITZHAK PERLMAN AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC


Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

Itzhak Perlman, conductor / violin

BEETHOVEN Romance No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra

BEETHOVEN Romance No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra

BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture

BRAHMS Symphony No. 4

JAAP VAN ZWEDEN CONDUCTS NEW YORK PREMIERE BY JULIA ADOLPHE





Jaap van Zweden, conductor

Cynthia Phelps, viola

WAGNER Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin

Julia ADOLPHE Unearth, Release (Concerto for Viola and Orchestra)

(New York Premiere–New York Philharmonic

Co-Commission with the League of American Orchestras)

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4




Sunday, November 20, 2016, 3:00 p.m.

FRANÇAIX String Trio

Shanshan Yao, violin; Peter Kenote, viola;

Qiang Tu, cello

PROKOFIEV Quintet in G minor for Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, Viola,

and Double Bass

Anna Rabinova, violin; Vivek Kamath, viola;

Blake Hinson, double bass; Sherry Sylar, oboe;

Pascual Martínez Forteza, clarinet

BEETHOVEN Quintet in E-flat major for Oboe, Three Horns, and

Bassoon

Liang Wang, oboe; Kim Laskowski, bassoon;

Richard Deane, R. Allen Spanjer, Howard Wall, horn

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Quintet in D major for Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Cello,

and Piano

Lisa Kim, violin; Eileen Moon, cello;

Anthony McGill, clarinet; Philip Myers, horn;

John Novacek§, piano


IVÁN FISCHER WITH NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER


Wednesday, November 23, 2016, 7:30 p.m.



Iván Fischer, conductor

Nikolaj Znaider, violin

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto


SATURDAY MATINEE CONCERT



Iván Fischer, conductor

Frank Huang, Sheryl Staples, violin

Cynthia Phelps, viola; Carter Brey, cello

DVOŘÁK String Quartet in F major, American


ALL-MOZART WITH BERNARD LABADIE AND PRINCIPAL FLUTE

ROBERT LANGEVIN


Thursday, December 1, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, December 2, 2016, 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, December 3, 2016, 8:00 p.m.

Bernard Labadie, conductor

Robert Langevin, flute

Ying Fang*, soprano

MOZART Symphony No. 31, Paris

MOZART Flute Concerto No. 2

MOZART Exsultate, jubilate

MOZART Symphony No. 39




The Ages of Music: “Classical”





MOZART Symphony No. 31, Paris

MOZART Symphony No. 39

JIŘÍ BĔLOHLÁVEK WITH KUN WOO PAIK



Friday, December 9, 2016, 11:00 a.m.


Jiří Bĕlohlávek, conductor

Kun Woo Paik**, piano

JANÁČEK House of the Dead Overture



** New York Philharmonic subscription debut




Jiří Bĕlohlávek, conductor

Robert Langevin, flute / piccolo; Liang Wang, oboe

Anthony McGill, clarinet; Amy Zoloto, bass clarinet

Judith LeClair, bassoon; Christopher Martin, trumpet

Philip Myers, horn

HINDEMITH Kleine Kammermusik for Five Winds, Op. 24, No. 2

HINDEMITH Septet


CHINA PHILHARMONIC

Presented by the New York Philharmonic


Sunday, December 11, 2016, 3:00 p.m.

Long Yu, conductor

Julian Rachlin, violin

China Philharmonic

PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: HANDEL’S MESSIAH

Presented by Gary W. Parr


Tuesday, December 13, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, December 14, 2016, 7:30 p.m.





Christina Landshamer*, soprano

Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano

Matthew Polenzani, tenor

John Relyea, bass-baritone

Concert Chorale of New York

James Bagwell, director

HANDEL Messiah

HOLIDAY BRASS


Sunday, December 18, 2016, 3:00 p.m.

New York Philharmonic Brass and Percussion

Philip Smith, conductor / host / trumpet

Program tba


ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: WORLD PREMIERE BY WYNTON MARSALIS,

PART OF THE NEW YORK COMMISSIONS


Wednesday, December 28, 2016, 7:30 p.m.



Tuesday, January 3, 2017, 7:30 p.m.


Christopher Martin, trumpet

English horn tba

Joseph Alessi, trombone

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

COPLAND Quiet City

William BOLCOM Trombone Concerto

Wynton MARSALIS New work (World Premiere–New York

Philharmonic Commission)

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH JOYCE DIDONATO




Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano

Alan Gilbert will conduct the annual New Year’s Eve concert, featuring mezzo-soprano Joyce

DiDonato in an evening of American classics, including works by Rodgers & Hammerstein and

others.

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: WORLD PREMIERE BY HK GRUBER


Thursday, January 5, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, January 6, 2017, 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, January 7, 2017, 8:00 p.m.


Emanuel Ax, piano

WEILL Little Threepenny Music for Wind Orchestra

HK GRUBER Piano Concerto (World Premiere–New York

Philharmonic Co-Commission with the

Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw,

and Royal Stockholm Philharmonic orchestras)

SCHUBERT Symphony No. 2




Sunday, January 8, 2017, 3:00 p.m.

MAURER Concertante for Four Violins

Michelle Kim, Soohyun Kwon, Joo Young Oh,

Jin Suk Yu, violin; piano tba

RAVEL Piano Trio

Quan Ge, violin; Patrick Jee, cello; Qian Wu§, piano

BRAHMS Piano Quartet in C minor

Frank Huang, violin; Robert Rinehart, viola;

Eileen Moon, cello; Krisztina Wajsza§, piano


VERY YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERTS



Monday, January 9, 2017, 10:30 a.m.

Sunday, January 15, 2017, 12:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.

Musicians from the New York Philharmonic

Rebecca Young, host

Philharmonic Families: “Strings”

Program tba

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: BEETHOVEN WITH STEPHEN HOUGH


Wednesday, January 11, 2017, 7:30 p.m.





Stephen Hough, piano

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor

BRAHMS Symphony No. 3



The Ages of Music: “Romantic”




Program to include:

DVOŘÁK Selections from Symphony No. 9, From the New World

Works by Very Young Composers

BELOVED FRIEND — TCHAIKOVSKY AND HIS WORLD: A PHILHARMONIC FESTIVAL

VOCAL CONCERT

A Co-Presentation of the Kaufman Music Center and New York Festival of Song




Artists to include:

Antonina Chehovska, soprano

Alexey Lavrov, baritone Michael Barrett, piano

Steven Blier, piano and arranger

This vocal concert features songs by Tchaikovsky, his students including Rachmaninoff and

Taneyev, and his teacher Anton Rubinstein.


CONDUCTED BY SEMYON BYCHKOV; WITH YEFIM BRONFMAN





Semyon Bychkov, conductor

Yefim Bronfman, piano

GLINKA Valse fantaisie

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 2

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5


WITH YEFIM BRONFMAN

A Co-Presentation of the New York Philharmonic and 92nd Street Y

92nd Street Y

1395 Lexington Avenue

Sunday, January 29, 2017, 3:00 p.m.


Cynthia Phelps, Rebecca Young, viola

Carter Brey, Eileen Moon, cello


TCHAIKOVSKY Selections from The Seasons

TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir de Florence

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Trio

CHINESE NEW YEAR CONCERT AND GALA



Long Yu, conductor

Elizabeth Zeltser*, violin

David Cossin*, percussion

LI Huanzhi Spring Festival Overture

PUCCINI Selections from Turandot

XU Shuya The Light of Summer (World Premiere–New York


Shanghai Symphony Orchestra)

Andy AKIHO Ricochet, Concerto for Ping Pong, Violin,

Percussion, and Orchestra (U.S. Premiere)



CONDUCTED BY SEMYON BYCHKOV; WITH KIRILL GERSTEIN


Thursday, February 2, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, February 3, 2017, 11:00 a.m.

Saturday, February 4, 2017, 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday, February 7, 2017, 7:30 p.m.


Kirill Gerstein, piano

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 (1879 version)

TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred Symphony


St. Paul the Apostle Church

Friday, February 3, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

Westminster Symphonic Choir

Joe Miller, director

RACHMANINOFF All-Night Vigil (Vespers)




Sunday, February 5, 2017, 12:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.

Monday, February 6, 2017, 10:30 a.m.


Rebecca Young, host

Philharmonic Families: “Brass”

Program tba

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE LEONIDAS KAVAKOS IN RECITAL WITH YUJA WANG

Presented by the New York Philharmonic in Association with Lincoln Center’s Great Performers


Wednesday, February 8, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

Leonidas Kavakos, violin

Yuja Wang, piano

JANÁČEK Sonata for Violin and Piano SCHUBERT Fantasy in C major, D.934

DEBUSSY Sonata for Violin and Piano

BARTÓK Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano, BB 84


CONDUCTED BY SEMYON BYCHKOV






TANEYEV Oresteia Overture

TCHAIKOVSKY Francesca da Rimini

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, Pathétique

MANFRED HONECK CONDUCTS MAHLER; ARTIST-IN-ASSOCIATION

INON BARNATAN IN BEETHOVEN






Manfred Honeck, conductor

Inon Barnatan, piano


MAHLER Symphony No. 1

HERBERT BLOMSTEDT CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN



Friday, February 24, 2017, 11:00 a.m.


Herbert Blomstedt, conductor



ALAN GILBERT’S 50TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION




Emanuel Ax, piano

Lisa Batiashvili, violin

Joshua Bell, violin


Renée Fleming, soprano

Pamela Frank, violin

Frank Huang, violin

Program tba




Sunday, February 26, 2017, 3:00 p.m.

MENOTTI Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano

Hyunju Lee, violin; Pascual Martínez Forteza,

clarinet; piano tba

SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht

Quan Ge, Lisa GiHae Kim, violin; Vivek Kamath,

Rémi Pelletier, viola; Sumire Kudo, Ru-Pei Yeh,

cello

SCHUMANN Piano Trio No. 3

Na Sun, violin; Qiang Tu, cello; Hélène Jeanney§,

piano

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: WORLD PREMIERE BY LERA AUERBACH WITH

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE LEONIDAS KAVAKOS


Wednesday, March 1, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 2, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, March 3, 2017, 8:00 p.m.



Christina Landshamer, soprano

Lera AUERBACH Violin Concerto No. 3 (World Premiere–New York

Philharmonic Commission)



ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: MAHLER AND BARTÓK


Saturday, March 4, 2017, 8:00 p.m.


Christina Landshamer, soprano



ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: JOHN ADAMS IN HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY SEASON



Friday, March 10, 2017, 2:00 p.m.




Cynthia Phelps, viola; Carter Brey, cello

John ADAMS Absolute Jest

John ADAMS Harmonielehre



The Ages of Music: “Modern”





John ADAMS The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra)

John ADAMS Absolute Jest

John ADAMS Harmonielehre

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: NEW YORK PREMIERE BY COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE

ESA-PEKKA SALONEN WITH YO-YO MA


Wednesday, March 15, 2017, 7:30 p.m.


Friday, March 17, 2017, 8:00 p.m.



Yo-Yo Ma, cello

John ADAMS The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra) Esa-Pekka SALONEN Cello Concerto (New York Premiere–New York


Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Barbican

Centre, and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg)

BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique

EUROPE / SPRING 2017 TOUR

Alan Gilbert will lead the Philharmonic on the EUROPE / SPRING 2017 tour, March 23–April 7,

2017. The tour will include performances in Antwerp, Luxembourg, Düsseldorf, Essen, Budapest,

Vienna, London as part of the Philharmonic’s third Barbican Centre residency, Hamburg, and

Copenhagen. The repertoire will reflect major highlights of the Philharmonic’s 2016–17 season,

including Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto with Yo-Yo Ma as soloist; Mahler’s Symphony No.

4; Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta; John Adams’s Harmonielehre, Absolute Jest,

and The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra); Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique; and

Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with Frank Peter Zimmermann.

COURTNEY LEWIS WITH JONATHAN BISS


Thursday, April 20, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, April 21, 2017, 11:00 a.m.

Saturday, April 22, 2017, 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday, April 25, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

Courtney Lewis, conductor

Jonathan Biss, piano

BERLIOZ Selections from Romeo and Juliet

Timo ANDRES Piano Concerto No. 3, The Blind Banister


ELGAR In the South (Alassio)




Courtney Lewis, conductor

New York Philharmonic Principal Brass Quintet

Program to include:

BERLIOZ Selections from Romeo and Juliet

ELGAR In the South (Alassio)




Sunday, April 23, 2017, 3:00 p.m.

PAGANINI Duetto Concertante No. 2 for Violin and Bassoon

Anna Rabinova, violin; Kim Laskowski, bassoon

PERSICHETTI Serenade No. 6 for Trombone, Viola, and Cello

Rebecca Young, viola; Maria Kitsopoulos, cello;

Joseph Alessi, trombone

BUSCH Piano Quintet

Kuan Cheng Lu, Lisa GiHae Kim, violin;

Dawn Hannay, viola; Eric Bartlett, cello;

Peter Serkin§, piano

BRAHMS String Quintet No. 1

Lisa Kim, Shanshan Yao, violin; Robert Rinehart,

Rémi Pelletier, viola; Nathan Vickery, cello

ESA-PEKKA SALONEN CONDUCTS U.S. PREMIERE BY TANSY DAVIES


Thursday, April 27, 2017, 7:30 p.m.



Philip Myers, horn

R. Allen Spanjer, horn

Leelanee Sterrett*, horn

Howard Wall, horn

BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 2

Tansy DAVIES New work for four horns (U.S. Premiere–

New York Philharmonic Co-Commission

with Philharmonia Orchestra and Warsaw

Autumn Festival)

R. STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra



ESA-PEKKA SALONEN CONDUCTS AT LIU:

TANSY DAVIES’S NEW WORK FOR FOUR HORNS

Tilles Center for the Performing Arts

C.W. Post Campus

Long Island University

Brookville, New York

Friday, April 28, 2017, 8:00 p.m.


Philip Myers, horn

R. Allen Spanjer, horn

Leelanee Sterrett, horn

Howard Wall, horn

BEETHOVEN Leonore Overture No. 2

Tansy DAVIES New work for four horns (New York Philharmonic

Co-Commission with Philharmonia

Orchestra and Warsaw Autumn Festival)

R. STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra




Sunday, April 30, 2017, 12:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.

Monday, May 1, 2017, 10:30 a.m.


Rebecca Young, host

Philharmonic Families: “Woodwinds”

Program tba

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: BEETHOVEN’S NINTH SYMPHONY AND

SCHOENBERG’S A SURVIVOR FROM WARSAW


Wednesday, May 3, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 4, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, May 5, 2017, 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, May 6, 2017, 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday, May 9, 2017, 7:30 p.m.


Camilla Tilling, soprano

Daniela Mack*, mezzo-soprano

Joseph Kaiser*, tenor

Eric Owens, bass-baritone

Westminster Symphonic Choir

Joe Miller, director

SCHOENBERG A Survivor from Warsaw


SPRING GALA: BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S


Thursday, May 11, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

Justin Freer, conductor

Chorus tba

MANCINI Breakfast at Tiffany’s (score performed live to complete film)


E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL


Friday, May 12, 2017, 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, May 13, 2017, 1:00 p.m.

Saturday, May 13, 2017, 7:00 p.m.

David Newman, conductor

John WILLIAMS E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (New York Premiere–score

performed live to complete film)

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: NEW YORK PREMIERES BY COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE

ESA-PEKKA SALONEN AND KRAVIS EMERGING COMPOSER ANNA THORVALDSDOTTIR


Friday, May 19, 2017, 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, May 20, 2017, 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday, May 23, 2017, 7:30 p.m.



Anu Komsi**, soprano

Piia Komsi*, soprano

BRAHMS Violin Concerto

Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR Aeriality (New York Premiere)

Esa-Pekka SALONEN Wing on Wing (New York Premiere)

** New York Philharmonic subscription debut




Saturday, May 20, 2017, 2:00 p.m.



Sheryl Staples, violin; Cynthia Phelps, viola

Cello tba; Timothy Cobb, double bass

Shai Wosner, piano

HUMMEL Piano Quintet in D minor (transcribed from Piano

Septet, Op. 74)

BRAHMS Violin Concerto

JAKUB HRŮŠA WITH AUGUSTIN HADELICH


Thursday, May 25, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, May 26, 2017, 2:00 p.m.

Saturday, May 27, 2017, 8:00 p.m.

Jakub Hrůša*, conductor

Augustin Hadelich, violin

DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto

DVOŘÁK Three Slavonic Dances

JANÁČEK Taras Bulba, Rhapsody for Orchestra





Sunday, May 28, 2017, 3:00 p.m.

J. DRUCKMAN Come Round

Mindy Kaufman, flute; Amy Zoloto, clarinet;

Lisa GiHae Kim, violin; Sumire Kudo, cello;

Daniel Druckman, percussion; Michael Barrett§,

piano

MOZART String Quintet in G minor

Fiona Simon, Marié Rossano, violin;

Judith Nelson, Katherine Greene, viola; Eric

Bartlett, cello

DVOŘÁK String Quintet in G major

Sheryl Staples, Yulia Ziskel, violin; Rémi Pelletier,

viola; Maria Kitsopoulos, cello; Timothy Cobb,

double bass

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: ANNUAL FREE MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT

The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine

112th Street and Amsterdam Avenue

Monday, May 29, 2017, 8:00 p.m.


Soprano tba



ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: WAGNER’S DAS RHEINGOLD


Thursday, June 1, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 3, 2017, 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday, June 6, 2017, 7:30 p.m.


Eric Owens, bass-baritone (Wotan)

Jamie Barton*, mezzo-soprano (Fricka)

Christopher Purves*, baritone (Alberich)

Russell Thomas, tenor (Loge)

Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano (Erda)

Morris Robinson*, bass (Fasolt)

Stephen Milling*, bass (Fafner)

Rachel Willis-Sørensen*, soprano (Freia)

Brian Jagde*, tenor (Froh)

Christian Van Horn*, bass-baritone (Donner)

Peter Bronder*, tenor (Mime)

Jennifer Zetlan, soprano (Woglinde)

Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano (Wellgunde)

Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano (Flosshilde)

WAGNER Das Rheingold (complete, in concert)


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ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: SEASON FINALE


Thursday, June 8, 2017, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, June 9, 2017, 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, June 10, 2017, 8:00 p.m.


Alan Gilbert will lead the New York Philharmonic and guest artists from around the world in

performances that highlight important international issues and foster the idea of a global community

that shares a common humanity.

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