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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.

A thoughtfully designed and coherent program of French music at David Geffen Hall, is played with mostly exquisite results.

The New York Phil concluded its six-concert residency at this summer’s Bravo! Vail Festival with a survey of Stephen Sondheim’s legacy stylishly led by Leonard Slatkin.

Igor Levit's pianissimo playing is the highlight of his Brahms, but for all its vaunted acoustics, Carnegie Hall is sometimes not kind to concerto soloists.

In New York Philharmonic debuts, Rakitina and Zhang deliver a thoughtful version of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, mostly shorn of sentimentality – a fresh look from young eyes.

Gustavo Dudamel conducts the New York Philharmonic in a program of Robert Schumann’s symphonies that was notable for drive and energy, plus a Gabriela Ortiz premiere honoring Clara Schumann.

A premiere and a rarity cap New York Philharmonic’s mini-festival “Authentic Selves: The Beauty Within” created in partnership with Artist-in-Residence, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo. 

Anthony Roth Costanzo and Justin Vivian Bond were authentic to their their dramatic, flamboyant, passionate selves, finding common ground in carefully crafted medleys and duets.

The New York Philharmonic resumed its laudable “Project 19” with a world premiere by Joan Tower, along with a Mozart piano concerto and Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony.

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.

Three of the pieces that Louis Langrée conducted in his New York Philharmonic debut concerts were similarly atmospheric and impressionistic, stealing each other’s thunder. Happily, the Scriabin was cathartic.

Ellen Reid’s evocative new work and Renée Fleming’s set of songs from her album “Distant Light” were the highlights of a program that included an uninspiring Bruckner Fourth Symphony.

Janine Jansen and the New York Philharmonic gave a transcendent, once-in-a-lifetime performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto. Tania Leòn’s new work and a Strauss suite paled in comparison.

The satisfying kick-off to the New York Philharmonic’s Project 19 women’s commissioning project shared a bill with a disappointing Haydn cello concerto and a rewarding Mozart Mass.

Gustavo Dudamel led the New York Philharmonic in a program that featured a mildly disappointing Ives, a spectacularly successful new concerto, and an idiosyncratic take on Dvořák’s New World Symphony.

Jakub Hrůša conducted the New York Philharmonic in a program of lesser-known works from well-loved composers. While Hrůša especially made the case for the Dvořák, the evening as a whole did not add up .

The New York Philharmonic opened its season last night with a splendidly conceived mash-up of selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. Unfortunately, the first half of the concert was less compelling.