James Levine says that when The MET Orchestra performs at Carnegie Hall, the players are “energized by it, by the repertoire, by the hall, and by the audience.” This amazing ensemble, which the New York Times calls “not just the best opera orchestra in America but one of the best American orchestras,” premieres new music for piano and orchestra from American composer Charles Wuorinen, with Peter Serkin at the keyboard. Featured in the same recital is star mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato in one of Mozart’s bestloved concert arias. The MET Orchestra also joins forces with two outstanding artists to present Brahms: Lang Lang is the soloist for the first Piano Concerto, and Christian Tetzlaff performs the Violin Concerto, originally written for Brahms’s close friend, the 19th-century virtuoso Joseph Joachim (“Brahms might be the greatest living composer,” the American composer George Chadwick wrote after hearing the premiere of the concerto in 1879).