Carnegie Hall

Broadcast from March 18, 2026

Concerto Köln by Sonja Werner, Shunske Sato by Marco Borggreve, Max Volbers by Andrej Grilc The renowned early-music ensemble performs works by Telemann, Mrs Philarmonica, J. S. Bach, Giuseppe Sammartini, and Handel, plus a very special rendition of Vivaldi’s double concerto for two violins, featuring violinist extraordinaire Shunske Sato and eminent recorder player Max Volbers in his Carnegie Hall debut. Concerto Köln has described this repertoire as “a tapestry of baroque brilliance,” and their distinguished collaborators make this program something truly unique.

Broadcast from February 27, 2026

Individually, concerts by the Vienna Philharmonic and piano superstar Lang Lang are among classical music’s most sought-after events. In this thrilling Friday-night performance, they join forces on Carnegie Hall’s grandest stage. Lang Lang is featured in Bartók’s unusually graceful Piano Concerto No. 3, highlighting a gentler, more “classically oriented” side of a composer responsible for some of the 20th century’s most important and demanding piano repertoire. Sounds of nature and echoes of Hungarian folk music carry into the concert’s second half, in which the ensemble—which has often been called “Gustav Mahler’s orchestra”—performs the composer’s First Symphony.

Broadcast from January, 20, 2026

Verdi’s Requiem is a 90-minute journey of operatic intensity, heart-stopping musical grandeur, and existential human drama. It’s not often that Verdi was criticized as “too operatic”—but when his Requiem first emerged, critics found its relentless, emotionally heightened energy to be of questionable taste for an ostensibly sacred work. These same traits make for a thrilling concert experience, highlighting a monumental cornerstone of the orchestral-choral repertoire today. Experience his legendary creation brought to life by The Cleveland Orchestra (“America’s finest,” according to The New York Times), Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, and four of the world’s foremost vocal soloists: Asmik Grigorian, Deniz Uzun, Joshua Guerrero, and Tareq Nazmi.

Broadcast from December 16, 2025

With his history-making Carnegie Hall Perspectives series, violinist Maxim Vengerov is rewarding audiences with crowning jewels not only of the violin repertoire, but that of chamber music at large. Tonight only, he gathers an all-star lineup to perform Brahms’s impactful Piano Quintet and Clarinet Quintet, two absolute pinnacles of the repertoire. Collaborators Vilde Frang, James Ehnes, and Daniel Müller-Schott anchor the performance, with “powerhouse pianist” Yefim Bronfman (Los Angeles Times) and New York Philharmonic Principal Clarinetist Anthony McGill, Musical America’s 2024 Instrumentalist of the Year, featured in turn.

Broadcast from December 3, 2025

When pianist Seong-Jin Cho last performed one of Rachmaninoff’s orchestral works at Carnegie Hall, a modern-day legend was born. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) now invites Cho to perform another of the composer’s pulse-quickening piano-and-orchestra showpieces: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. This exciting program also features Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, for which the PSO earned a Best Orchestral Performance Grammy Award in 2018—the same year that conductor Manfred Honeck was named Artist of the Year by the International Classical Music Awards jury. A New York premiere by internationally renowned composer Lera Auerbach, commissioned by the PSO, rounds out the performance.

Broadcast from November 12, 2025

Beatrice Rana is “an artist of truly reflective grace … combining poetry and great skill, among the most gifted musicians of her generation” (Gramophone). In her 2022 Carnegie Hall recital, Rana performed Book I of Debussy’s famously demanding etudes “with wonderful intelligence and musicianship (and, of course, that gold-plated technique)” (The New Criterion). Tonight’s program includes Book II, six more pieces that, according to Debussy, underscore “the fact that the portals of music can only be opened with formidable hands.” Among other highlights, the recital also includes Prokofiev’s arresting Piano Sonata No. 6, which Rana has performed to considerable acclaim, and selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet and Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker.

Broadcast from July 20, 2025

The increasingly world-renowned National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA) returns to Carnegie Hall’s biggest stage, led by esteemed conductor Gianandrea Noseda. The program opens with Carlos Simon’s Festive Fanfare and Overture, a celebratory Carnegie Hall co-commission that echoes Shostakovich in its brass fanfare and builds across the orchestra sections toward a triumphant, full-ensemble conclusion. The enormously popular violin virtuoso Ray Chen then takes the stage as soloist in Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. His previous performance of the piece at Carnegie Hall—with the Bamberg Symphony—was called “riveting” (Bachtrack). The concert concludes with Rachmaninoff’s passionate Second Symphony, one of the composer’s grandest achievements and favorite works.

Broadcast from April 27, 2025

The Gateways Festival Orchestra returns to Carnegie Hall following a remarkable 2022 debut that featured pianist Jon Batiste. This extraordinary ensemble that comprises musicians from many of the nation’s top orchestras and conservatory faculties showcases the contributions of classical musicians of African descent, including composers and performers both past and present. Led by its highly versatile conductor Anthony Parnther, the orchestra presents a brand-new program in this matinee concert. Hear Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8, Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, and the New York premiere of Damien Sneed’s Reflections of Resilience: Five Spirituals, featuring multiple Grammy Award–winning mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges.

Broadcast from April 15, 2025

Hear The Philadelphia Orchestra in its third and final Mahler symphony performance of the Carnegie Hall season. When the ensemble last performed the Sixth Symphony on our stage in 2016, The New York Times called it a “stunning account ... notable for its sheer beauty.” They are meaningful words regarding the larger-than-life piece most commonly associated with Mahler’s personal tragedies (unforgettably punctuated by the fateful hammer blows in the surging finale)—and an affirmation of the undying love embedded in its searing melodies.

Broadcast from March 19, 2025

Franz Welser-Möst leads the world-class Cleveland Orchestra in a pair of Russian symphonic masterpieces, starting with the folkloric magic of Pétrouchka. Stravinsky’s tragic, direct musical storytelling offers a powerful contrast to Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, a quintessentially Romantic work that grapples with questions of fate throughout its breathtaking journey from darkness to triumph.

Broadcast from February 6, 2025

Hear two of today’s most distinguished instrumentalists in their first-ever duo performance at Carnegie Hall. Anthony McGill is principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic and a dynamic soloist known for his “trademark brilliance” (The New York Times), and the exceptionally thoughtful pianist Emanuel Ax has been one of the most beloved performers at Carnegie Hall for decades. Their eclectic program includes Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata; a recent work by James Lee III; stirring short pieces by Price and Jessie Montgomery; Bernstein’s Clarinet Sonata; Robert Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, Op. 73; and a melodious Schubert sonata of fascinating origin that shines on clarinet.

Broadcast from January 28, 2025

Enjoy a new perspective on the hugely popular period ensemble Les Arts Florissants in Zankel Hall Center Stage, which invites audiences to sit on all sides of the performers. Led by William Christie on the occasion of his 80th birthday, this special concert features works by the French Baroque composers he has championed throughout his career—including Charpentier, Lully, and Rameau—with guest vocalists.

Broadcast from December 4, 2024

In each of its three concerts this week, the inimitable Czech Philharmonic pairs an orchestral masterwork with one of Dvořák’s concertos, each featuring a superstar soloist. Tonight, the soloist is violin icon Gil Shaham, who performs the vibrant, Czech folk–infused Violin Concerto. Mahler’s Fifth Symphony follows, giving audiences a chance to experience the orchestra’s acclaimed interpretation under conductor Semyon Bychkov. Their 2022 recording of the Fifth was named Best Classical Record of 2022 by London’s The Times, which praised their “fine balance in this visionary work, a musical universe of dreams and prophecies in which Bychkov matches intelligent pacing with great-hearted warmth and sonic opulence with textural clarity.”

Broadcast from October 8, 2024

This star-studded Opening Night performance features renowned pianist Lang Lang and the incomparable Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. As soloist in Rachmaninoff's spellbinding and immensely popular Piano Concerto No. 2, Lang Lang kicks off not only our 2024–2025 season, but also his own, three-concert Perspectives series here at the Hall. Also featured is baritone Gustavo Castillo, who reprises his recent role with the ensemble as soloist in Ginastera's ballet Estancia.

Broadcast from August 7, 2024

Featuring dedicated young musicians (ages 14–22) from the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, the storied Afghan Youth Orchestra plays both Western and traditional Afghan instruments in repertoire that includes Western symphonic works, original compositions, and Afghan folk music. Recent tours have taken this extraordinary orchestra to the UK, where it recently made its Southbank Centre debut, and across Europe, including a historic performance that opened the 2023 UN Human Rights Conference in Switzerland. The ensemble—a symbol of hope for the people of Afghanistan, where music is currently banned—returns to Carnegie Hall for the first time in more than a decade. The young musicians are joined by members of the European Union Youth Orchestra in a special program that includes works by William Harvey, Sarahang, Awalmir, and Abdul Wahab Madadi, plus arrangements by conductor Tiago Moreira da Silva of works by Nainawaz, Brahms, Kodály, and popular artist Sediq Shabab.

Broadcast from August 4, 2024

This Sunday matinee concert—presented as part of Carnegie Hall’s World Orchestra Week (WOW!)—features the Beijing Youth Orchestra, an ensemble newly created by China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA). Lü Jia, who has performed at Carnegie Hall as conductor of the renowned China NCPA Orchestra, leads this exceptional youth orchestra and the inimitable pipa virtuoso Wu Man in a program that includes both Western and Chinese orchestral works.

Broadcast from August 3, 2024

Witness the North American debut of the Africa United Youth Orchestra (AUYO), organized by the Mzansi National Philharmonic Orchestra, South Africa’s national orchestra. AUYO comprises stellar musicians from several African countries, including South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Mozambique, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Led by American conductor William Eddins, the first half of the concert highlights works by South African composers Michael Mosoeu Moerane, Mzilikazi Khumalo, and Bongani Ndodana-Breen. Opening the program is Moerane’s Fatše La Heso (My Country), followed by arias from Khumalo’s uShaka KaSenzagakhona (a dramatic work about the legendary King of the Zulus) and Princess Magogo (the first Zulu opera) sung by South African soprano Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, who is also featured in one of Ndodana-Breen’s Three Orchestral Songs on Poems of Ingrid Jonker. The concert concludes with Dvořák’s beloved Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” featuring members of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America.

Broadcast from August 2, 2024

Gustavo Dudamel conducts the National Children’s Symphony of Venezuela during Carnegie Hall’s World Orchestra Week (WOW!), which celebrates extraordinary youth ensembles from around the globe. In the first half of the program, the gifted young musicians perform John Adams’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Estévez’s symphonic poem Mediodía en el llano, and Ginastera’s Four Dances from Estancia, which the orchestra also performed in its unforgettable international debut at the Salzburg Festival. The second half of the concert comprises Shostakovich’s riveting Symphony No. 5.

Broadcast from August 1, 2024

World Orchestra Week (WOW!) kicks off with a performance by NYO2—Carnegie Hall’s national youth orchestra for younger teens, called “superbly talented” (New York Classical Review) and “a bright future for classical music” (Musical America). Conducted by Teddy Abrams—and featuring principal players from several of the nation’s top orchestras as soloists—they perform some of the concert repertoire’s most beloved works. In addition to Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, and Stravinsky’s The Firebird Suite, the program includes a Carnegie Hall co-commissioned world premiere by Emmy Award–winning composer Jasmine Barnes, who has been commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Washington National Opera, and many more.

Broadcast from May 2, 2024

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Sixth Symphony, which he calls “an extraordinary journey … in a strange way, Mahler’s most classical symphony, even though it is so profound and tragic and, in many ways, apocalyptic.” In works by Hindemith and Zemlinsky, the program also reveals the Weimar Republic’s electrifying sense of cross-cultural artistic possibility, as ragtime music and poetry of the Harlem Renaissance become integral components of 1920s works by leading German composers.

Broadcast from April 18, 2024

The exemplary Danish String Quartet presents the fourth installment of its Doppelgänger project, in which they pair one of Schubert’s timeless string compositions with a newly commissioned work inspired by it. The program features Schubert’s mammoth String Quintet, which was written during the final weeks of the composer’s life and is considered one of the all-time greatest chamber works by any composer. The inimitable Thomas Adès—“one of the most accomplished and complete musicians of his generation” (The New York Times)—contributes its Doppelgänger companion.

Broadcast from April 3, 2024

Hespèrion XXI brings ancient and Baroque music to life under the direction of early-music legend Jordi Savall. In immensely entertaining programs that combine passion and creativity with world-class scholarship, they make timeless music utterly captivating for 21st-century audiences. Experience the inventiveness of the early Baroque era in works that span the late–16th century to the mid–17th century, including those by Frescobaldi, Kapsberger, de’ Cavalieri, Falconieri, and more.

Broadcast from February 12, 2024

The National Symphony Orchestra, acclaimed for its “exhilarating” performances at Carnegie Hall (The New York Times), performs under the superb leadership of Gianandrea Noseda. They treat audiences to one of Beethoven’s immortal symphonies: No. 3, “Eroica,” and showcase their versatility in selections from Berg’s impassioned Lyric Suite and Korngold’s Violin Concerto, which includes numerous references to the film scores Korngold wrote during his lifesaving Hollywood career.

Broadcast from January 29, 2024

New York audiences get a welcome opportunity to revisit the 2021 Pulitzer Prize–winning Stride by Tania León, Carnegie Hall’s 2023–2024 Debs Composer’s Chair. Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand follows, featuring star soloist and International Chopin Piano Competition winner Seong-Jin Cho. Masterfully written for both piano and orchestra, it’s an inspiring example of a perceived obstacle—one-handed piano playing—yielding powerful and inventive new musical ideas. Stravinsky’s radical, rhythmically charged The Rite of Spring closes the program in explosive fashion.

Broadcast from January 23, 2024

The Philadelphia Orchestra and Marcus Roberts Trio present a 20th-century musical feast that’s perfect both for newcomers and afficionados, beginning with the magical storytelling of Stravinsky’s Pétrouchka. A rare symphonic piece by Kurt Weill follows, sure to impress listeners familiar only with the composer’s theatrical works. Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin calls it “a jewel [from] someone who completely mastered the symphonic world.” Finally, hear Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue like you never have before, as the Marcus Roberts Trio—which has “reinvented” (Chicago Tribune) the masterpiece alongside multiple top orchestras—joins us in celebrating its 100th anniversary.

Broadcast from October 22, 2023

Two singular composers tell the tale of a fiddler’s Faustian bargain and musical duel with the devil. The suite from The Soldier’s Tale is one of Stravinsky’s most memorable chamber works, retaining the stylistic range, dance elements, and expert instrumentation of his larger-scale compositions. In Wynton Marsalis’s re-imagining, A Fiddler’s Tale, he takes Stravinsky’s early jazz ingredients even further, melding jazz and classical idioms together with an updated narrative—here performed by special guest Phylicia Rashad and conducted by longtime Marsalis collaborator Damien Sneed. Hear both works performed by outstanding members of the acclaimed Gateways Music Festival.