WELCOME TO THE BIG Dipper
Jan 2, 2025APAP 2025
Jan 3, 2025David Geffen Hall
Jan. 2 – Feb. 2
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts The Philadelphia Orchestra in two works of incredible power. Written collaboratively by composer Jake Heggie, called “arguably the world’s most popular 21st-century opera and art song composer” (The Wall Street Journal); Booker Prize–winning author Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale); and JUNO Award–winning baritone Joshua Hopkins, Songs for Murdered Sisters is an arresting song cycle and urgent plea inspired by Hopkins’s own devastating loss. Mahler’s Ninth Symphony, the last the composer completed, is a transcendent piece also born in trying circumstances—but not without hope.
The NY Phil performs the following orchestral concerts, all of which take place at the Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall:
- Kevin John Edusei (in his New York Philharmonic debut) leads Samy Moussa’s Elysium; Berlioz’s song cycle Les Nuits d’été, featuring mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as soloist; and Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra; January 2–4 and 7.
- Daniele Rustioni (NY Phil debut) leads the Overture to Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s The Merchant of Venice; Dvořák’s Violin Concerto, featuring Joshua Bell as soloist; and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4; January 8, 9, and 11.
- Nathalie Stutzmann — a 2024–25 season Artistic Partner— conducts The Ring Without Words, former NY Phil Music Director Lorin Maazel’s arrangement of orchestral music from Wagner’s Ring Cycle; January 16, 18, and 19.
- David Robertson leads a program that was originally curated by the late NY Phil Music Director Pierre Boulez in 1974 — part of the Philharmonic’s tribute to Boulez’s centennial. The concert, a presentation of the NY Phil’s Sound On series, features J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3; Schubert’s Symphony No. 2; Webern’s Symphony, Op. 21; Boulez’s Pli selon pli: Improvisations sur Mallarmé, I and II, featuring soprano Jana McIntyre (NY Phil debut) as soloist; and Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat Suite; January 25 at 2:00 p.m.
- Marek Janowski (NY Phil debut) leads Weber’s Oberon Overture; Felix Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring Beatrice Rana as soloist; and Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 3, Rhenish; January 29, 30, February 1, and 2.
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