This week's New York Philharmonic performance features a program conducted by David Robertson and includes Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.

In this week's broadcast from the New York Philharmonic, music director Alan Gilbert leads the premiere of Christopher Rouse’s Odna Zhizn, a moody and mercurial 20-minute work that gives the full orchestra a workout. Rouse writes: "In Russian, 'odna zhizn' means 'a life.' This work has been composed in homage to a person of Russian ancestry who is very dear to me." The score is a "private love letter" in which letters have been translated into notes, though the receipient is undisclosed. Also on this week's program are two Mozart favorites, his Jupiter Symphony, and the Sinfonia concertante for Winds.

Folk tunes provide a focal point in this installment of the New York Philharmonic this Week. Alan Gilbert conducts works by Copland and Mahler in this performance from the Vail Valley Music Festival.

The New York Philharmonic presents an assortment of listener favorites in this week's broadcast. Yet far from a routine run-through of pieces, the performance reveals the growing bond between the musicians and their new music director, Alan Gilbert.

In his first New Year's Eve concert as music director of the New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert presented a program of celebratory American music. Tonight, relive that festive occasion.

On this episode of New York Philharmonic This Week, the orchestra's first artist-in-residence, the baritone Thomas Hampson, performs The Wound Dresser, John Adams' 1988 piece based on Walt Whitman's text of that title.

High drama is the order of the day as the New York Philharmonic This Week presents an all-Russian program with works by Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff.

Alan Gilbert surrounds a performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A featuring soloist Leif Ove Andsnes with two Webern works and Schumann's Symphony No. 2 on New York Philharmonic This Week.

British conductor Bramwell Tovey leads the New York Philharmonic This Week in an all-American program featuring works by Gershwin and John Phillips Sousa. Thursday, January 7 at 9PM.