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Battling short attention spans, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra delivers a riveting performance of Bruckner 8 in their summer series at Carnegie Hall.

Marin Alsop is joined by pianist Hayato Sumino as she conducts the Philadelphians in an exhilarating program of works by John Adams, Gershwin and Prokofiev.  

Andris Nelsons conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in the New York premiere of a solemn, modernist work paired with two high-spirited symphonies from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Following his acclaimed 2025 all-Russian recital at Carnegie Hall, the young Canadian pianist returns with a wide-ranging, imaginative program spotlighting his virtuosity and elegance.

William Levi Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, overlooked for decades, heads an all-American program of 20th-century works in New York. 

Levit introduced the theme at such a clip that one couldn't help but worry about the marathon of musculature he had in front of him, but he persevered, playing with a precision that was almost alarming.

An extraordinary group of musicians join violinist Maxim Vengerov in performing two chamber music jewels by Johannes Brahms.

The pianist concluded her US tour performing a formidable program of Prokofiev, Debussy and Tchaikovsky.

Singers Susanna Phillips, Michelle DeYoung and Ben Bliss impress in an intimate performance with members of the Met Orchestra.

A haunting account of Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto is paired with a vivid rendition of his Eleventh Symphony.

For their second Carnegie Hall programme, The Cleveland Orchestra tackles Fate in Stravinsky's Petrushka and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. 

The pianist impressed but the soprano proved less than ideally suited to some of the selections in a wide-ranging recital program that included Rachmaninov, Strauss, standards and spirituals.

Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic deliver emotionally charged accounts of Bruckner and Schubert in the first of three consecutive programs at Carnegie Hall. 

In commemoration of Maurice Ravel’s 150th birthday, the Seoul-born, Berlin-based virtuoso performs all of the composer’s solo works for piano over the course of a single evening.

Conrad Tao bookends his Zankel Hall recital, performed on a concert grand and a large electronic keyboard, with Debussy’s 12 Études. 

The virtuoso violinist glows in Brahms’ Violin Concerto and the Met musicians display their virtuosity and versatility in the composer’s complex final symphony.