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Wynton Marsalis

SPECIAL EVENT: OPENING NIGHT Wed, Sep 22, 7:30pm Alan Gilbert conductor Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis artistic director & trumpet Wynton MARSALIS Swing Symphony† R. STRAUSS Don Juan HINDEMITH Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber †U.S. Premiere – New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and The Barbican.

PERLMAN PERFORMS MENDELSSOHN Thurs, Sep 23, 7:30pm | Fri, Sep 24, 11:00am | Tues, Sep 28, 7:30pm Alan Gilbert conductor Itzhak Perlman violin Itzhak Perlman

R. STRAUSS Don Juan MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto Henri DUTILLEUX Métaboles HINDEMITH Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS MAHLER’S SIXTH SYMPHONY Wed, Sep 29, 7:30pm | Fri, Oct 1, 8:00pm Alan Gilbert conductor MAHLER Symphony No. 6

Joshua Bell

JOSHUA BELL, DEBUSSY, SIBELIUS AND LINDBERG Thurs, Oct 7, 7:30pm | Fri, Oct 8, 8:00pm | Tues, Oct 12, 7:30pm Alan Gilbert conductor Joshua Bell violin Magnus Lindberg piano Carter Brey cello Markus Rhoten timpani Christopher S. Lamb, Daniel Druckman percussion DEBUSSY Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun SIBELIUS Violin Concerto Magnus LINDBERG Kraft * ZUKERMAN, WEBERN AND BRAHMS Thurs, Oct 14, 7:30pm | Fri, Oct 15, 2:00pm | Sat, Oct 16, 8:00pm Alan Gilbert conductor Pinchas Zukerman violin WEBERN Passacaglia, Op. 1 BRAHMS Violin Concerto BRAHMS Symphony No. 4

Pinchas Zukerman

MENDELSSOHN’S ELIJAH Wed, Nov 10, 7:30pm | Thurs, Nov 11, 7:30pm Alan Gilbert conductor Carolyn Sampson soprano Alice Coote mezzo-soprano Allan Clayton tenor Gerald Finley bass-baritone New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt director MENDELSSOHN Elijah TCHAIKOVSKY’S VIOLIN CONCERTO AND STRAVINSKY’S FIREBIRD Fri, Nov 26, 8:00pm | Sat, Nov 27, 8:00pm Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conductor Leonidas Kavakos violin Women of the New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt director GLINKA Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto DEBUSSY Nocturnes STRAVINSKY Suite from The Firebird (1919)

Sir Colin Davis

HAYDN, DEBUSSY AND FIREBIRD Tues, Nov 30, 7:30pm Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conductor Women of the New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt director GLINKA Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila HAYDN Symphony No. 100, Military DEBUSSY Nocturnes STRAVINSKY Suite from The Firebird (1919)

BEETHOVEN AND MAHLER Thurs, Dec 2, 7:30pm | Sat, Dec 4, 8:00pm | Tues, Dec 7, 7:30pm Sir Colin Davis conductor Dorothea Röschmann soprano Ian Bostridge tenor BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2 MAHLER Des Knaben Wunderhorn

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Alan Gilbert

ELGAR AND MOZART Thurs, Dec 9, 7:30pm | Fri, Dec 10, 8:00pm | Sat, Dec 11, 8:00pm Sir Colin Davis conductor Nikolaj Znaider violin ELGAR Introduction and Allegro MOZART Symphony No. 36, Linz ELGAR Violin Concerto HANDEL’S MESSIAH Tues, Dec 14, 7:30pm | Wed, Dec 15, 7:30pm | Thurs, Dec 16, 7:30pm Fri, Dec 17, 7:30pm | Sat, Dec 18, 7:30pm Bernard Labadie conductor Karina Gauvin soprano Marie-Nicole Lemieux mezzo-soprano Tilman Lichdi tenor Andrew Foster-Williams bass New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt director

Thomas Hampson

HANDEL Messiah ALAN GILBERT AND SOLOISTS FROM THE PHILHARMONIC Tues, Dec 28, 7:30pm | Wed, Dec 29, 7:30pm | Thurs, Dec 30, 7:30pm Alan Gilbert conductor Sheryl Staples, Michelle Kim, Marc Ginsberg, Lisa Kim, violins Philip Smith trumpet Philip Myers horn Liang Wang oboe VIVALDI Concerto for Four Violins, Op. 3, No. 10 Aaron Jay KERNIS a Voice, a Messenger*** HINDEMITH Horn Concerto Christopher ROUSE Oboe Concerto* RAVEL Boléro

Yefim Bronfman

MOZART, MAHLER, AND A THOMAS ADÈS PREMIERE Thurs, Jan 6, 7:30pm | Fri, Jan 7, 8:00pm | Sat, Jan 8, 8:00pm Alan Gilbert conductor Thomas Hampson baritone Thomas Adès piano Tal Rosner video artist MOZART Symphony No. 40 MAHLER Kindertotenlieder Thomas ADÈS In Seven Days (Concerto for Piano with Moving Image)* BRONFMAN, SCHUMANN, AND BRAHMS Thurs, Jan 13, 7:30pm | Fri, Jan 14, 8:00pm | Sat, Jan 15, 8:00pm Christoph von Dohnányi conductor Yefim Bronfman piano Jörg WIDMANN Con brio, Concert Overture for Orchestra SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4 BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2 RUSH HOUR: BRAHMS’S PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 Wed, Jan 19, 6:45pm Christoph von Dohnányi conductor Radu Lupu piano BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 ˇ VON DOHNÁNYI CONDUCTS SCHUMANN AND DVORÁK Thurs, Jan 20, 7:30pm Christoph von Dohnányi conductor

Radu Lupu

Christoph von Dohnányi

Jörg WIDMANN Con brio, Concert Overture for Orchestra ˇ SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4 DVORÁK Symphony No. 8 ˇ VON DOHNÁNYI, LUPU, BRAHMS, AND DVORÁK Fri, Jan 21, 8:00pm | Sat, Jan 22, 8:00pm Christoph von Dohnányi conductor Radu Lupu piano ˇ BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 DVORÁK Symphony No. 8 ALAN GILBERT, KARITA MATTILA, BEETHOVEN, SIBELIUS, AND NIELSEN Fri, Jan 28, 8:00pm | Sat, Jan 29, 8:00pm | Tues, Feb 1, 7:30pm Alan Gilbert conductor Karita Mattila soprano BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8 BEETHOVEN Ah, perfido! SIBELIUS Selected Songs for Soprano and Orchestra NIELSEN Symphony No. 2, The Four Temperaments

Karita Mattila

BEETHOVEN’S THIRD PIANO CONCERTO AND SHOSTAKOVICH’S FIFTH SYMPHONY Thurs, Feb 10, 7:30pm | Fri, Feb 11, 11:00am | Sat, Feb 12, 8:00pm Andris Nelsons conductor Jonathan Biss piano BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3 SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5

*New York Premiere **World Premiere ***World Premiere: New York Philharmonic Commission

Branford Marsalis

BRANFORD MARSALIS Wed, Feb 16, 7:30pm | Thurs, Feb 17, 7:30pm | Fri, Feb 18, 2:00pm | Sat, Feb 19, 8:00pm Andrey Boreyko conductor Branford Marsalis saxophone HAYDN Symphony No. 60, Il distratto GLAZUNOV Concerto for Alto Saxophone SCHULHOFF/Bennett Hot-Sonate for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra R. STRAUSS Le Bourgeois gentilhomme JANINE JANSEN AND BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH SYMPHONY Thurs, Feb 24, 7:30pm | Fri, Feb 25, 11:00am | Sat, Feb 26, 8:00pm Tues, Mar 1, 7:30pm Paavo Järvi conductor Janine Jansen violin

Janine Jansen

Erkki-Sven TÜÜR Aditus* BRITTEN Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 MAHLER’S FOURTH SYMPHONY Thurs, Mar 3, 7:30pm | Fri, Mar 4, 2:00pm | Sat, Mar 5, 8:00pm Daniel Harding conductor Glenn Dicterow violin Lisa Milne soprano

Glenn Dicterow

Esa-Pekka Salonen

H U NGAR IAN ECHOES: A PH I LHAR MON IC FESTIVAL

SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No. 1 MAHLER Symphony No. 4 ESA-PEKKA SALONEN AND PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD Thurs, Mar 10, 7:30pm | Fri, Mar 11, 11:00am | Sat, Mar 12, 8:00pm Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano HAYDN Symphony No. 6, Le Matin LIGETI Piano Concerto BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra SALONEN CONDUCTS BARTÓK’S CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA Thurs, March 17 | 7:30pm Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor LIGETI Concert Românesc HAYDN Symphony No. 7, Le Midi BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra SALONEN CONDUCTS BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE Fri, Mar 18, 8:00pm | Sat, Mar 19, 8:00pm | Tues, Mar 22, 7:30pm Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Michelle DeYoung mezzo-soprano Evgeny Nikitin bass-baritone LIGETI Concert Românesc HAYDN Symphony No. 7, Le Midi BARTÓK Bluebeard’s Castle SALONEN CONDUCTS THE MIRACULOUS MANDARIN Thurs, Mar 24, 7:30pm | Fri Mar 25, 2:00pm | Sat, Mar 26, 8:00pm Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Olli Mustonen piano Women of the New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt director HAYDN Symphony No. 8, Le Soir BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 1 LIGETI Clocks and Clouds BARTÓK Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin

ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER AND TCHAIKOVSKY’S SECOND SYMPHONY Thurs, Mar 31, 7:30pm | Fri, Apr 1, 8:00pm | Sat, Apr 2, 8:00pm Michael Tilson Thomas conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violin PROKOFIEV Overture in B-flat major, American Sofia GUBAIDULINA In Tempus Praesens, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra* TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2, Little Russian MASUR CONDUCTS LISZT, GUBAIDULINA, AND BRAHMS Wed, Apr 13, 7:30pm | Sat, Apr 16, 8:00pm Kurt Masur conductor Cynthia Phelps viola Rebecca Young viola Anne-Sophie Mutter

LISZT Les Préludes Sofia GUBAIDULINA Two Paths BRAHMS Symphony No. 1

“Gilbert led an energetic account...

Its rousing conclusion drew the audience to its feet for a five-minute ovation.”

–Associated Press Kurt Masur

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Emanuel Ax

RUSH HOUR: MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 5 Wed, Apr 27, 6:45pm Alan Gilbert conductor MAHLER Symphony No. 5 ALAN GILBERT, EMANUEL AX, AND MAHLER’S FIFTH SYMPHONY Thurs, Apr 28, 7:30pm | Fri, Apr 29, 2:00pm | Sat, Apr 30, 8:00pm Alan Gilbert conductor Emanuel Ax piano DEBUSSY Selections from Estampes for solo piano MESSIAEN Couleurs de la cité céleste MAHLER Symphony No. 5

Lisa Batiashvili

BATIASHVILI, BARTÓK, AND BEETHOVEN’S EROICA SYMPHONY Wed, May 4, 7:30pm | Fri, May 6, 8:00pm | Sat, May 7, 8:00pm Alan Gilbert conductor Lisa Batiashvili violin BARTÓK Violin Concerto No. 2 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, Eroica MUTTER, BEETHOVEN, BRUCKNER, AND A SEBASTIAN CURRIER PREMIERE Thurs, Jun 2, 7:30pm | Fri, Jun 3, 2:00pm | Sat, Jun 4, 8:00pm Alan Gilbert conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter violin BEETHOVEN Romance No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra Sebastian CURRIER Time Machines** BRUCKNER Symphony No. 2 RUSH HOUR: RACHMANINOFF & SHOSTAKOVICH Wed, Jun 8, 6:45pm David Robertson conductor Rachmaninoff The Isle of the Dead SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 1 DEBORAH VOIGT, SHOSTAKOVICH, AND SCHOENBERG Thurs, Jun 9, 7:30pm | Fri, Jun 10, 8:00pm | Sat, Jun 11, 8:00pm David Robertson conductor Deborah Voigt soprano

David Robertson

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 1 RACHMANINOFF The Isle of the Dead SCHOENBERG Erwartung GIL SHAHAM AND MUSORGSKY’S PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION Thurs, Jun 16, 7:30pm | Fri, Jun 17, 11:00am | Sat, Jun 18, 8:00pm Ludovic Morlot conductor Gil Shaham violin MUSORGSKY Prelude to Khovanshchina WALTON Violin Concerto RAVEL Pavane pour une Infante défunte MUSORGSKY/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition

Deborah Voigt

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Gil Shaham

Photo Credits. Page 2-3 Avery Fisher Hall Exterior by Julie Skarratt, Alan Gilbert by Karen Ballard Page 4-5: Wynton Marsalis

by Keith Major, Itzhak Perlman by Akira Kinoshita, Joshua Bell by Bill Phelps, Pinchas Zukerman by Paul Labelle, Sir Colin Davis by Chris Lee, Alan Gilbert by Karen Ballard, Karita Mattila by Lauri Eriksson, Thomas Hampson by Dario Acosta, Yefim Bronfman by Dario Acosta, Radu Lupu by Mary Robert, Christoph von Dohnányi by Terry O’Neill, Page 6-7: Branford Marsalis

by Palma Kolansky, Janine Jansen by Felix Broede, Glenn Dicterow by Chris Lee, Esa-Pekka Salonen by Nicho Södling, Anne-Sophie Mutter by Anja Frers/DG, Kurt Masur by Frans Jansen, Emanuel Ax by Harald Haugan, Lisa Batiashvili by Mat Hennek, David Robertson by Michael Tammaro, Deborah Voigt by CAMI, Gil Shaham by Christian Steiner

*New York Premiere **World Premiere

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