The Carnegie Hall audience for Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's Spring for Music program on Friday, May 6. (Melanie Buford/NPR)
Produced by WQXR and Carnegie Hall, and presented in partnership with American Public Media (APM), the third season of Carnegie Hall Live kicks off on Wednesday, Nov. 13, with a performance by the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas and featuring guest soloist pianist Jeremy Denk (Nov. 13).
Other highlights include the Takács Quartet performing an all-Bartók program (Jan. 18, 2014); the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bernard Haitink and featuring a rare orchestral performance by pianist Murray Perahia (Feb. 11, 2014); and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra performing Britten's War Requiem.
Full broadcast schedule:
Oct. 2: [CANCELLED] The Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director and conductor; Joshua Bell, violin; Esperanza Spalding, vocals and double bass.
Nov. 13: San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, music director and conductor; Jeremy Denk, piano.
Nov. 18: Arcangelo; Jonathan Cohen, conductor; Alina Ibragimova, violin; Katherine Watson, soprano; Nikolay Borchev, baritone.
Jan. 18, 2014: Takács Quartet.
Feb. 11, 2014: Boston Symphony Orchestra; Bernard Haitink, conductor; Murray Perahia, piano.
Feb. 21, 2014: Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Johannes Moser, cello.
Feb. 26, 2014: Vienna Philharmonic; Franz Welser-Möst, conductor.
March 16, 2014: The English Concert; Harry Bicket, artistic director; Dorothea Röschmann, soprano; Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano; David Daniels, countertenor; Kurt Streit, tenor; Neal Davies, bass-baritone; The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, director of music and the arts.
April 30, 2014: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Robert Spano, music director and conductor; Evelina Dobracheva, soprano; Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor; Stephen Powell, baritone; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus; Norman Mackenzie, director; Brooklyn Youth Chorus; Dianne Berkun-Menaker, artistic director. Program: War Requiem.
May 17, 2014: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Mariss Jansons, chief conductor; soloist Mitsuko Uchida.
July 22, 2014: National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America; David Robertson, conductor; Gil Shaham, violin.
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Listen to the archived broadcast of the English Concert performing Handel oratorio Theodora – the work the composer said he was most proud of.
The Vienna Philharmonic presented a program of Mozart, Bruckner and Staud. Franz Welser-Most conducted the concert.
Last Friday, WQXR brought you the Philadelphia Orchestra in a war-themed program of Strauss, Shostakovich and Beethoven. Listen to portions of the concert here.
Listen to the archived broadcast of Bernard Haitink conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. The program features Bronx-born pianist Murray Perahia.
On Saturday the venerable Takács Quartet came to Zankel Hall to present three of Bartok's six string quartets, pillars of the 20th-century repertoire.
On Monday night we brought bring you a concert by the London-based period-instrument ensemble Arcangelo with the Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova. Listen to the full performance.
The San Francisco Symphony returned to Carnegie Hall in November with a program of American and Viennese repertoire, with piano soloist Jeremy Denk.
Tonight we were scheduled to bring you the Opening Night Concert of Carnegie Hall’s new season, but this morning IATSE/Local One Stagehands went on strike and the concert was cancelled.
On Friday, the Staatskapelle Dresden closed the 2012-13 Carnegie Hall Live series on an epic note, with Bruckner's Symphony No. 8.
Jonathan Biss and the Elias Quartet performed music by Mozart, Janacek, Schumann and the Brooklyn-based composer Timothy Andres. Listen to the full concert now.
Today at 8 pm, tune in for an encore broadcast of the Berlin Philharmonic performing Mahler's Symphony No. 2.
On Sunday, WQXR presented a live broadcast of Golijov's La Pasión según San Marcos, a work that draws on Afro-Cuban and Brazilian music in its re-telling of the passion story.
On Wednesday, the French period-instrument ensemble performed music by Handel, Vivaldi and Nicola Antonio Porpora in this wide-ranging program at Zankel Hall.
The West-Eastern Divan finished its Carnegie Hall series with a broadcast of Beethoven's Symphonies Nos. 2 and 9.
In case you missed it: Soprano Renée Fleming and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham recently teamed up for a recital of French song literature. Listen to the recital here on demand.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin brought the Philadelphians to Carnegie Hall for a dramatic program with violin soloist Leonidas Kavakos.
On Monday, Dec. 10, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela brought three Latin American works to Carnegie Hall.
On Saturday night, the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique returned to Carnegie Hall to perform Beethoven's choral epic Missa Solemnis.
On Nov. 7, WQXR brought you a broadcast from Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall featuring the Belcea Quartet. This was the first concert in Zankel since Carnegie closed following Superstorm Sandy.
On Wednesday, Carnegie Hall Live kicked off its second season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performing Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. Listen here.
WQXR is reprising some choice moments from Carnegie Hall Live, our new series co-produced with Carnegie Hall and American Public Media.
Returning for its third year, WQXR and Carnegie Hall in collaboration with American Public Media (APM) present a series of ten national broadcasts live from Carnegie Hall. The 2013-14 season will feature a range of orchestras, small ensembles and soloists.
Carnegie Hall Live is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Art Works.
Join us April 30 at 8 pm for a live broadcast by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Robert Spano conducts Britten's War Requiem, a towering piece whose importance seems to grow by the year. Completed in 1962, the work combines the Latin Mass for the Dead with texts by English poet Wilfred Owen, who himself was killed in action just a week before the end of World War I.
