New York City Classical Concerts
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23 May 2013
 
8pm
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th Street
New York
NY 10019
United States of America

Details:
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+1 212 247 7800

US$35 general, $20 students and seniors
Sergei Kvitko in a Solo Piano Debut at Carnegie Hall

Sergei Kvitko, piano
with Lucas Segovia and Kara Zimmerman of Joffrey Ballet of Chicago

Sergei Kvitko, acclaimed pianist, composer, recording engineer and producer, presents a solo piano recital that includes Enrique Granados’ rarely performed, exquisitely passionate and profoundly poetic suite Escenas Romanticas; Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition – the monumental interpretation, recording of which American Record Guide proclaimed “among the best ever made,” and his original virtuoso transcriptions of Bach’s Prelude in C Major – an unexpectedly romantic take on the famous piece; Mussorgsky’s Trepak from “Songs and Dances of Death”- dark and mysterious song transcribed for solo piano in tradition of Schubert-Liszt arrangements; and Eugène Ysaÿe’s Solo Violin Sonata No. 3 “Ballade” – violin bravura masterpiece in its first ever daring arrangement for piano.

For the performance of Granados’ Escenas Románticas, Sergei will be joined on the stage by Lucas Segovia and Kara Zimmerman, the stars of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, for a unique mini-ballet choreographed exclusively for this collaboration.
 
31 May 2013
 
8pm
Elebash Recital Hall
365 Fifth Ave
New York
NY 10016
United States of America

Free
Ensemble Linea

Ensemble Linea:
Maiko Matsuoka, violin
Jessica Rona, viola
Johannes Burghoff, cello
Anna d'Errico, piano
Keiko Murakami, flute
Andrea Nagy, clarinet
Jean-Philippe Wurtz, conductor

Tristan Murail : treize couleurs du soleil couchant (1978) (flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello)
Bruno Mantovani : d'un rêve parti (2000) (flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola and cello)
Georges Aperghis: Rasch (for bass clarinet and viola) (first performance)
Philippe Hurel: Pour Luigi (1994) (flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello)
Raphaël Cendo: Rokh I (2010) for flute, violin, cello and piano (first US performance)

Ensemble Linea, internationally recognized as one of the best contemporary ensembles in France, is returning to the United States for its second overseas tour. In 2011, Linea made their US debut in a joint concert with the Talea Ensemble in a performance that earned high praise from the New York Times and Musical America. Steve Smith of Time Out New York calls the group 'a torchbearer for uncompromising modernism'.

Ensemble Linea's 2013 visit to New York is a two day festival of free events culminating in a performance on Friday 31 May 2013 at 8 pm in Elebash Recital Hall featuring U.S. and world premieres.
 
1 June 2013
 
7pm
Symphony Space
2537 Broadway
New York
NY 10025
United States of America

Details:
Emily Wong
Web site
E-mail

US$25, 35, 45
The Chelsea Symphony Season Finale, featuring Mark O'Connor

Mark O'Connor, violin
The Chelsea Symphony
Yaniv Segal, Mark Seto and Matthew Aubin, conductors

Bernstein: Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
O'Connor: Improvised Violin Concerto (first NYC performance)
O'Connor: Americana Symphony

 
8pm
Carnegie Hall
881 7th Avenue
New York
NY 10019
United States of America

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Nicholas McGegan conducts the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in a program of Mozart and Haydn.

 
4 June 2013
 
8pm
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York
NY 10023
United States of America

Details:
Glenn Askin
Web site
E-mail
+1 212 362 2727

US$35-75
Reformation Finale Concert

Layla Claire, soprano
Benjamin Butterfield, tenor
American Classical Orchestra
Thomas Crawford, conductor

Witt: Symphony in C
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 5, 'Reformation'
Mozart and Rossini Arias

Two Metropolitan Opera stars will grace the stage to conclude the ACO's season. Layla Claire, one of the most sought after young singers in today’s opera world, will give her Alice Tully Hall debut. Layla arrives in the afterglow of her February 2011 performances as Marenka in Smetana’s The Bartered Bride at the Metropolitan Opera under the baton of James Levine. Canadian tenor Benjamin Butterfield is a favorite among both early music and contemporary music audiences. His elegant tenor voice takes center stage in Mozart’s commanding aria ‘Misero…O sogno.' But our season finale may hold the best for last, as we perform the Reformation Symphony. Mendelssohn’s scoring of the hymn ‘Ein feste Burg’ is thrilling, edge-of-your-seat music.
 


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