New York’s 92nd Street Y has assembled a terrific line-up of classical music concerts that will stream from their Kaufmann Concert Hall as part of their Winter/Spring season. The series begins on February 1st and runs through May 26th. Eight of the concerts will stream live and the remaining five concerts will be newly filmed for this series.
Each concert will take place at 7:30 PM on the East Coast (4:30 PM on the West Coast). All concerts will stream for one week from their debut.
Renowned musicians Emanuel Ax, Richard Goode, Gil Shaham and Daniil Trifonov are just some of the performers.
Tickets are $20 per concert or $130 for the Winter/Spring series (making the concerts $10 each). There are four guitar recitals as part of this season. If you only want to see and hear those recitals, you can purchase a four-pack of those performances for $50.
Each listing has a link towards that specific event.
Here is the Winter/Spring schedule:
February 1st: Pianist Emanuel Ax and the New York Philharmonic String Quartet (Filmed)
The program features Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95 “Serioso” and Dvořáks Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major
February 3rd: Brentano String Quartet with violist Hsin-Yun Huang (Live)
This all-Mozart program will feature the composer’s String Quintet in C Minor K. 406, String Quintet in D Major, K. 593 and the String Quintet in G Minor, K. 516
February 13th: Pianist Richard Goode (Live)
The program features Bach’s Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828 and select preludes by Debussy
February 18th: Guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas (Filmed)
Four composers are being showcased in this program:
Granados’ Danza Española (Danza Melancólica), Op. 37, No. 10 and Danza Española (Andaluza), Op. 37, No. 5; Rodrigo’s Invocación y Danza; Tárrega’s Capricho Árabe and Lágrima Adelita and Albéniz’s Torre Bermeja, from Piezas Características, Op. 92; Mallorca (Barcarola), Op. 202 and Asturias (Leyenda), from Suite Española, Op. 4
March 6th: Guitarist Ana Vidovic (Live)
Specific works have yet to be announced for this concert. However works of the following composers are expected to be performed: Bach, Torroba, Giuliani, Barrios and more.
March 11th: Violinist Gil Shaham with members of The Knights (Live)
This program will open and close with works by Beethoven. Scheduled to be performed are Beethoven’s Overture to “The Creatures of Prometheus (arranged by Hummel); a string quartet to be announced by Boulogne and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 (arranged by The Knights).
The Knights are Alex Sopp on flute; Colin Jacobsen on violin; Eric Jacobsen on cello and Steven Beck on piano.
Shaham and The Knights have a new record being released on March 12th called Beethoven and Brahms: Violin Concertos which marks the first time Shaham has recorded Beethoven’s violin concerto.
March 25th: Cellist Alisa Weilerstein with pianist Inon Barnatan (Filmed)
This concert will feature Falla’s Suite Populaire Espagnole and Rachmaninoff’s Sonata for Cello and Piano
April 13th: Pianist Daniil Trifonov (Filmed)
Trifonov’s recital will include Debussy’s Pour le Piano, Prokofiev’s Sarcasms and Brahms’ Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5
Sarcasms can be found on his 2020 recording Silver Age.
April 17th: Guitarist Jason Vieaux (Live)
Two New York premieres are part of this diverse program. It includes Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001 (arr. Vieaux); Brouwer’s El Decamerón Negro; Vieaux’s Home (NY Premiere); Scarlatti’s Sonata in A Major, K. 208 (arranged by Brouwer) and Pat Metheny’s Four Paths of Light (NY Premiere)
May 1st: Guitarist Manuel Barrueco (Filmed)
This program has not yet been announced. We will update this post as soon as we get details.
May 5th: Flautist Brandon Patrick George with pianist Bryan Wagorn (Live)
Scheduled to be performed at this concert will be William Grant Still’s Pastorela; Reinecke’s Undine Sonata; Valerie Coleman’s Wish Sonatine, L. Boulanger’s Nocturne and Schubert’s Introduction and Variations on “Trockne Blumen,” D. 802
May 11th: Soprano Susanna Phillips with clarinetist Anthony McGill and a pianist TBA (Live)
This program is centered on Schubert’s The Shepherd on the Rock (Der Hirt auf dem Felsen). Additional selections to be announced. We will update you when we receive those details.
May 26th: Pianist Stewart Goodyear (Live)
This is an all-Beethoven program with Sonata No 15 in D Major, Op. 28, “Pastorale;“ Sonata No. 25 in G Major, Op. 79 and Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111
Which of the Winter/Spring concerts will you choose? Or will you see them all?
All photos courtesy 92nd Street Y unless otherwise noted.
Main Photo: Pablo Sáinz-Villegas (Photo ©Lisa Marie Mazzucco)