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Joana Carneiro, the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center and music by Frank, Shostakovich, Ravel and Prokofiev fused into something that transcended them all.

Aucoin, librettist Jorie Graham and director Peter Sellars make New Bodies more a haunting mood piece than a cautionary tale for the American Modern Opera Company.

The Australian conductor leads a superb performance of Bruckner’s Sixth paired with Steven Isserlis playing Schumann’s Cello Concerto. 

In a rare visit to New York, the Philharmonic’s incoming Music Director leads the ensemble in an exhilarating program of works by Varèse, Gershwin... and a Ravel world premiere. 

The captivating pianist leads the orchestra from the keyboard in works by Stravinsky, Janáček and Gershwin. 

Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony is a massive and aptly complicated work to which William Kentridge’s film adds contextual layers of stop-motion animation and vintage footage in a surreal nightmare of tyranny.

Rising conductor Kazuki Yamada conducts a clear, forthright and flowing account of Rachmaninov's Second Symphony. 

The American conductor and German-Japanese pianist shine in a mostly meditative program of Webern, Strauss, Ravel and Scriabin. 

The Austrian pianist’s expressive and elegant interpretation of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto is the highlight in a New York Philharmonic program of classics of the German Romantic repertoire.

The New York Philharmonic features two early Ligeti works, a new concerto for Yefim Bronfman by Elena Firsova, and Brahms' Serenade no. 1.

Juanjo Mena and the orchestra of Spain’s powerhouse opera company presents a gala concert, featuring Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo at its centre. 

Jacob's Ladder receives its world premiere, sandwiches by two staples of the 19th-century Romantic repertoire. 

The Elements brings together five composers writing for the celebrated violinist: Kevin Puts, Edgar Meyer, Jake Heggie, Jennifer Higdon and Jessie Montgomery. 

The world premiere of Iraqi-American composer Amir ElSaffar's ambitious Dhikra (Remembrance) very nearly succeeds in its ambitions. 

A climate-centered concert features water-themed works by Britten and Takemitsu, but is built around the stunning New York premiere of Become Desert, a co-commissioned piece by John Luther Adams.

Michael Tilson Thomas leads the Philharmonic in the New York premiere of his song cycle Meditations on Rilke.