Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA at Carnegie Hall (Oct. 3, 7 p.m.; Oct. 4, 8 p.m.). With a decent claim to being the nation’s best, this ensemble opens the Carnegie season on Thursday in gala fashion. Expect the suite from Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier,” the overture to Nicolai’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and two works by Beethoven: the Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G and the Triple Concerto. Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lynn Harrell and Yefim Bronfman are the soloists. Oct. 4 brings heavier fare, with Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 preceded by Jörg Widmann’s “Trauermarsch.” Bronfman again is the soloist; Franz Welser-Möst conducts the lot.
212-247-7800, carnegiehall.org
JEREMY FILSELL at St. Thomas Church (Sept. 27, 7 p.m.). With Daniel Hyde departing for King’s College, Cambridge, Filsell, the new organist and director of music at St. Thomas, opens his tenure with this recital at the church’s grand organ. Fully a product of the English choral tradition, Filsell nonetheless specializes in French music: As well as pieces by the American composers and organists Julian Wachner, Calvin Hampton and Gerre Hancock, he performs works by Jean-Jacques Grunenwald and Marcel Dupré.
212-664-9360, saintthomaschurch.org
[Read about the events that our other critics have chosen for the week ahead.]
NEW JUILLIARD ENSEMBLE at Peter Jay Sharp Theater (Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m.). The tireless Joel Sachs conducts four works on this program, all of them recent, if not strictly new: Shulamit Ran’s “Fault Line,” with Lila Duffy the soprano; Magnus Lindberg’s “Souvenir”; Alexander Goehr’s “… Between the Lines”; and the premiere of a new version of Balazs Horvath’s “Die ReAlisierung einer komPosition,” featuring a Juilliard acting student, Michael Braugher, as a rapper. Admission is free.
212-799-5000, juilliard.edu
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC at David Geffen Hall (Oct. 3, 7:30 p.m.; through Oct. 5). In an untypically conservative program, Jaap van Zweden conducts Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique” and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, with Augustin Hadelich. Earlier in the week (Tuesday, 7:30 p.m., at the Appel Room), Nadia Sirota hosts the first Sound ON concert of the season, with music by Jacob Druckman, John Luther Adams, Thea Musgrave and Ellen Reid.
212-875-5656, nyphil.org
‘A NIGHT OF WOMEN COMPOSERS’ at National Sawdust (Sept. 27, 7:30 p.m.). This Brooklyn concert space’s fifth season opens with a tribute to seven women composers — from Clara Schumann to Ellen Reid — one that includes excerpts from Paola Prestini’s “Silent Light” and Missy Mazzoli’s “Proving Up.” An enormous roster of artists will be on hand to perform, not least Timo Andres, Nico Muhly and the Young People’s Chorus of New York City.
646-779-8455, nationalsawdust.org
‘TURANDOT’ at the Metropolitan Opera (Oct. 3, 7:30 p.m.; through Oct. 31). Franco Zeffirelli’s dazzling production emerges for yet another run, despite continuing critical concern about the problematic way it deals with a problematic opera. Just 13 performances for the entire season, with five of them in April featuring Nina Stemme in the title role. For the October stretch, Christine Goerke dons Turandot’s crown, with Eleonora Buratto as Liù, James Morris as Timur, and Yusif Eyvazov as Calàf during the first half of the month and Riccardo Massi in the role during the second half; Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts all but two shows.
212-362-6000, metopera.org
Source: Read Full Article