In our first concert recorded exclusively for NYPhil+ Emanuel Ax masters the technical challenges of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 with the most delicate touch. David Robertson also conducts Elgar, Richard Strauss, and Jessie Montgomery’s multicultural rhapsody on the theme of The Star-Spangled Banner.
Jessie MONTGOMERY (b. 1981)
Banner (2014)
R. STRAUSS (1864–1949)
Wind Serenade in E-flat major, Op. 7 (1881–82)
MOZART (1756–91)
Piano Concerto in E-flat major, K.271 (1777)
1. Allegro
2. Andantino
3. Rondeau: Presto
ELGAR (1857–1934)
Introduction and Allegro for Strings (Quartet and Orchestra), Op. 47 (1905)
(The Elgar features Frank Huang and Qianqian Li, violins; Cynthia Phelps, viola; and Carter Brey, cello)
Major support provided by Laura Chang and Arnold Chavkin.
Renowned soprano Jessye Norman performs Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, a pensive set of orchestral songs meditating on love and death — perhaps Mahler’s favorite themes. Then she joins Zubin Mehta and the Orchestra in Wagner’s ecstatic aria of fatal love.
MAHLER (1860 –1911)
Five Late Songs ...
Legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich performs Dvořák’s lyrical, moving Cello Concerto, written during the Czech composer’s extended stay in New York City and bearing the imprint of his engagement with American music.
DVOŘÁK (1841–1904)
Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 (1894–95)
1. Allegr...
The great André Watts joins the Philharmonic in 1977 to perform Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto. Brahms jokingly called this a “tiny little” concerto for piano and orchestra, despite its being one of the largest ever written. The legendary Erich Leinsdorf conducts.
BRAHMS (1833–97)
Concerto No....