Michael Christie, conductor   •   Pinchas Zukerman, Violin

Elgar: Violin Concerto
Copland: Symphony No. 3

Wagner: Tristan

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine, conductor
Deborah Voigt   •   Michelle DeYoung   •   Ben Heppner
Eike Wilm Schulte   •   Matti Salminen

Sung in German with Met Titles in English

Gerald Barry: The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Thomas Adès, conductor
Stephen Wallace, countertenor   •   William Purefoy, countertenor
Christopher Lemmings, tenor   •   Roderick Williams, baritone
Stephen Richardson, bass

The new-music ensemble from Birmingham, England, performs the New York concert premiere of contemporary Irish composer Gerald Barry's opera.

Vogler Quartet
Tim Vogler, violin   •   Frank Reinecke, violin
Stefan Fehlandt, viola   •   Stephan Forck, cello

Haydn: Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 64, No. 6
Jörg Widmann: String Quartet No. 4 (US Premiere)
Beethoven: String Quartet in e minor, Op. 59, No. 2, “Razumovsky”

Shanghai Quartet:
Weigang Li, violin   •   Yi-Wen Jiang, violin
Honggang Li, viola   •   Nicholas Tzavaras, cello

With guests, Mark Peskanov, violin   •   Doris Stevenson, piano

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 5 in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5
Daniel Ott: Blue Water for Violin, Piano and String Quartet (World Premiere)
  Commissioned by Bargemusic (2008)
Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in d minor, D. 810, “Death and the Maiden”

2006 International violin Competition of Indianapolis Gold Medalist

Augustin Hadelich, violin   •   Robert Kulek, piano

Beethoven: Sonata in D Major, Op. 12, No. 1
Bartók: Solo violin Sonata, BB 124
Bright Sheng: A Night at the Chinese Opera
Brahms: violin Sonata No. 3 in d minor, Op. 108

Puccini: Tosca

New York City Opera Orchestra, Steuart Bedford, conductor
Anna Shafajinskaia   •   Raul Melo   •   James Schaffner
Museop Kim   •   Branch Fields   •   Todd Thomas

Sung in Italian with supertitles in English

Paul Haas conductor   •   Nurit Pacht, violin
Paul Fowler, live electronica artist   •   Romain Erkiletlian, installation artist

TRACES

Program: Greenstein, Monteverdi, Marini, Corelli, Gluck, Bartok, Martin, Nielsen, Hindemith, Copland, Gorecki, Part, Haas

Angel Orensanz Center
172 Norfolk Street

Alexei Volodin, piano

Schubert: Impromptu, Opus 142, No. 1
Beethoven: Sonata, Opus 111
Rachmaninoff: Six moments musicaux, Opus 16
Prokofieff: Sonata No. 7 in B flat Major, Opus 83

The concert is in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.

Messages is a collaboration between Tres Warren of Psychic Ills and visual artist Taketo Shimada. Their sound falls somewhere between drone, raga, techno and psychedelia.

Violinist and composer Rebecca Cherry. Juxtaposing original sound samples of stringed instruments employing extended techniques with video footage from popular music videos.

Roulette
20 Greene Street