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. Robertson, music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and a champion of contemporary music, is known for assembling programs that explore a particular theme or concept. In this program, we're given a musical dance lesson. From George Benjamin's Dance Figures, set by the Belgian choreographer Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker, to Debussy's Prelude to the Afernoon of a Faun, staged by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, to works by Ravel and Ginastera in which dance rhythms emerge, it will surely get your toes tapping.

Program details:

Conductor: David Robertson
Soloist: Nicolas Hodges, piano

George Benjamin: Dance Figures
Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Ravel: Concerto for the Left Hand
Ginastera: Dances from Estancia, Op. 8a