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Recently recovered from emergency brain surgery, the popular conductor stepped back onto the podium with the New York Philharmonic this weekend in performances that ranged from the skilled to the sublime.

The chamber ensemble offered a century-spanning programming, stretching from Béla Bartók and Ruth Crawford Seeger to Ann Cleare and Georg Friedrich Haas.