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Wednesday, April 16
Juilliard Chamber Ensembles
New York Society for Ethical Culture, at 1:00 pm

Wednesdays at One are free hour-long lunchtime concerts by Juilliard performers most Wednesdays of the school year.


Program: TBA


Free; no tickets required.

New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 West 64th Street at Central Park West

Brentano String Quartet
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, at 5:30 pm

Brentano String Quartet:
Mark Steinberg, Violin   •   Serena Canin, Violin
Misha Amory, Viola   •   Nina Lee, Cello

With guest, Michael Kannen, Cello


Gesualdo:Two Madrigals from Book IV (arr. Mark Steinberg)
  Io parto, e non più dissi
  Io pur respiro in così gran dolore

Beethoven: String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127
Schubert: String Quintet in C Major, D.956


Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, at 7:30 pm


Vivaldi: Concerto for Strings and Continuo in G Minor, RV 152
Marcello: Oboe Concerto in d minor (with ornaments by J. S. Bach)
Graun: Concerto for Viola (da Gamba) and Orchestra
P. H. Erlebach: Overture
Bach: Concerto for Keyboard and Orchestra in d minor, BWV 1052


Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Society for Ethical Culture, at 7:30 pm

Artemis Quartet:
Heime Muller, violins   •   Natalia Prischepenko, violin
Volker Jacobsen, viola   •   Eckart Runge, cello


Beethoven: String Quartet in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4
Nikolai Kapustin: String Quartet, Op. 88
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 22


Society for Ethical Culture
64th St. at Central Park West


New York City Opera
New York State Theater, Lincoln Center at 7:30 pm

Bernstein: Candide

New York City Opera Orchestra, George Manahan, conductor
Daniel Reichard   •   Lielle Berman   •   Jessica Wright
Judith Blazer   •   Kyle Pfortmiller   •   Richard Kind

Sung in English with supertitles in English


Transfiguration Choir of Men & Boys
Church of the Transfiguration, at 7:30 pm

The Queens Chamber Band, Elaine Comparone, conductor
Transfiguration Choir of Men & Boys, Claudia Dumschat, director


A Bach Feast

Cantata #8
Harpsichord Concerto in F Major, BWV 1057
Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582


Church of the Transfiguration
1 East 29th Street


Axiom Ensemble
Gerald W. Lynch Theater, John Jay College, at 8:00 pm

James Conlon, conductor


Generative and Degenerate Music, 1925-193

Pavel Haas: Vyvolená, Op.8 (1927)
Hans Krása: Kammermusik (1935)
Martinů: La revue de cuisine (1927)
Antheil: A Jazz Symphony (1925)
Poulenc: Aubade: Concerto Choreographique (1931)


The concert is free, tickets required


The Choir and Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola
St. Ignatius Loyola, at 8:00 pm

Kent Tritle, conductor   •   Nancianne Parrella, organ
Sara Murphy, soprano   •   Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
Charles Perry Sprawls, baritone


Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in c minor, Op. 78 “Organ Symphony”
Szymanowski: Stabat Mater


7:00 PM pre-concert organ recital: Widor, Ducasse, Saint-Saëns and Duprré
Ken Cowan, Organ Faculty, Westminster Choir College


Dísella Làrusdóttir
Merkin Concert Hall, at 8:00 pm

Dísella Làrusdóttir, soprano   •   Debra Scurto-Davis, piano


Music by Purcell, R. Strauss, Grieg, Donizetti, Jorunn Vidar, Jon Asgeirsson, Rachmaninoff, and Argento


The Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center at 8:00 pm

Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda, Conductor
Angela M. Brown   •   Ofelia Sala   •   Stephanie Blythe
Salvatore Licitra   •   Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English

András Schiff
Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, at 8:00 pm

András Schiff, Piano


Works by Beethoven:
Sonata No. 9 in E Major, Op. 14, No. 1
Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 14, No. 2
Sonata No. 11 in B-flat Major, Op. 22
Sonata No. 19 in g minor, Op. 49, No. 1
Sonata No. 20 in G Major, Op. 49, No. 2


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