3 and 5) Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducting as the soprano Golda Schultz sings Strauss’s “Brentano-Lieder” (Feb. II,” part of a two-week festival of long-marginalized identities (Feb. 20-23) Susanna Malkki leading Branford Marsalis in John Adams’s Saxophone Concerto (Jan. Other highlights of the orchestra’s season - performed at venues including Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall while David Geffen Hall is renovated - include Anthony Davis’s 2011 clarinet concerto “You Have the Right to Remain Silent” (Oct.
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC After opening its season with two pianists - Daniil Trifonov, then Yefim Bronfman - the Philharmonic and its music director, Jaap van Zweden, continue with a third: Leif Ove Andsnes, who has made the subtly progressive choice to precede Robert Schumann’s classic concerto with Clara Schumann’s solo Romance in A Minor (Oct. 10) and the “Death and the Maiden” Quartet and one by Lotta Wennakoski (April 29). The first juxtapositions, which the Danes will perform for Cal Performances, are the late Quartet in G and a piece by Bent Sorensen (Oct. 6-9 in Chicago)ĭANISH STRING QUARTET This ensemble, renowned for performances of polished intensity, turns to Schubert in a new project, “Doppelgänger,” which pairs that composer’s quartets with new works. (In yet more concerts at Carnegie, the orchestra plays Barber, Florence Price and more Coleman in February and Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” in April Wang plays a solo recital at the hall on April 12.)ĬOLLABORATIVE WORKS FESTIVAL The sensitive tenor Nicholas Phan, the artistic director of the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago, has organized the song festival “Strangers in a Strange Land,” which explores issues of migration and includes Nico Muhly’s cycle “Stranger.” (Oct. And also Beethoven - the Fifth Symphony - to kick off the Philadelphians’ months-spanning, five-concert cycle of the symphonies, delayed from 2020. 2 alongside works by Bernstein, Valerie Coleman and Iman Habibi. 6 with the conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the star of New York’s musical fall, and his Philadelphia Orchestra, with Yuja Wang playing Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 17 at the Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan) OctoberĬARNEGIE HALL The season at America’s pre-eminent concert hall opens on Oct. ‘BORIS GODUNOV’ The velvet-toned bass René Pape, who took the crushing title role when the Met’s production of this Mussorgsky opera had its premiere back in 2010, returns to it, conducted by Sebastian Weigle. Brown direct and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the company’s music director, conducts.
Louis in 2019 Will Liverman, Angel Blue and Latonia Moore star James Robinson and Camille A. Kasi Lemmons wrote the libretto for the work, which premiered in St. Blow’s memoir about his traumatic upbringing. Vastly belated, it will still be a celebratory occasion when the composer and jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard, best known for his wry and powerful scores for Spike Lee films, takes a bow for his adaptation of the New York Times columnist Charles M. ‘FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES’ For its reopening after the long pandemic closure, the Metropolitan Opera has made a historic choice: its first work ever by a Black composer. 8, Olga Vinokur runs through a slew of piano études both modern and classic.
25 and 26, the pianist Dan Tepfer, equally adept at jazz and classical styles, offers his own piano quintet and a Mozart concerto with the Semplice Players and Oct. 24, Ljova plays the fadolin, a six-string violin Sept. 22 at Le Poisson Rouge, Manhattan)īARGEMUSIC Perhaps New York’s most idiosyncratic concert hall, this floating performance space docked at Brooklyn Bridge Park provides intimate, occasionally bobbing, encounters with music. TAKA KIGAWA This thoughtful pianist returns to one of his signatures, mid-20th-century modernism, with a program including études by Ligeti and sonatas by Boulez: the epochal, fiendishly difficult Second and a version of the unfinished Third.