Chaya Czernowin’s Unforeseen dusk: bones into wings “leads us to an undiscovered connection between outer and inner nature,” according to the composer, whose work will receive its U.S. premiere by the New York Philharmonic Oct. 29. Brad Lubman conducts this performance, part of the Sound On series, featuring soloists from the Neue Vocalsolisten and with Students from […]
On Nov. 6-8, the New York Philharmonic plays the U.S. premiere of Bohdana Frolyak’s Let There Be Light, which reflects on the Ukrainian conflict. Joshua Bell is soloist in Thomas de Hartmann’s Violin Concerto, and the program is bookended by other responses to war: Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2526/joshua-bell-plays-de-hartmann/
Audiences will have an unusual experience Nov. 13-15 when the Cleveland Orchestra plays the U.S. premiere of Geoffrey Gordon’s Mad Song, a concerto for an instrument that rarely gets the spotlight: English horn. The soloist will be Robert Walters. Conductor Tugan Sokhiev also leads the orchestra in Mahler’s Tragic Symphony No. 6. https://www.clevelandorchestra.com/attend/concerts-and-events/2526/severance/wk-06-mahler/
Leon Botstein will lead the American Symphony Orchestra in the U.S. premiere of the 1849 Stabat Mater by Peter Cornelius, with the Bard Festival Chorale. Also on the Nov. 13 program is Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor. https://americansymphony.org/2025-2026/requiem-and-revelation-2/