Carnegie Hall

SEONG-JIN CHO, Piano
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Pianist Seong-Jin Cho returns in a recital with timeless music by Handel, aptly paired with Brahms’s Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel. The program also includes Sofia Gubaidulina’s gripping Chaconne, four Brahms Op. 76 piano pieces, and Robert Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13.

ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE’S
Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Bernard Labadie, one of today’s most prominent Baroque-era interpreters, leads a regal all-Handel program with Orchestra of St. Luke’s and La Chapelle de Québec featuring soprano Joélle Harvey, countertenor Iestyn Davies, and baritone Sumner Thompson. The performance will include Handel’s Coronation Anthems composed for King George II, Music for the Royal Fireworks, and Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74.

ENSEMBLE CONNECT
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

Ensemble Connect’s final program of the season includes Valerie Coleman’s Rubispheres, a series of chamber trios dedicated to urban life and landscapes, including New York’s Lower East Side and Washington Heights; Dvořák’s Terzetto; Johann Strauss Jr.’s Kaiser Waltz (arr. Schoenberg); and Dohnányi’s Sextet in C Major, Op. 37.

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Music Director Gianandrea Noseda returns with the National Symphony Orchestra, performing a program that includes George Walker’s Sinfonia No. 4, “Strands;” Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 16, with Daniil Trifonov; and the complete ballet score to Stravinsky’s The Firebird.

DANISH STRING QUARTET
Thursday, April 20, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

The Danish String Quartet returns with the New York premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Rituals (co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall) paired with music by Schubert: the String Quartet in A Minor, D. 804, “Rosamunde;” “Quartettsatz” in C Minor, D. 703; and “Gretchen am Spinnrade,” D. 118 (lied arr. by Danish String Quartet). This concert marks the continuation of the quartet’s Doppelgänger project in which they perform music by Schubert alongside new works written in response to these masterpieces.

BEATRICE RANA, Piano
Thursday, April 20, 2023 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Italian pianist Beatrice Rana returns this season with a recital program to include Johann Sebastian Bach’s French Suite No. 2 in C Minor; Debussy’s Pour le piano; and Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106, “Hammerklavier.”

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Monday, April 24, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Music Director Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in two April concerts. For the first program, Maestro Nelsons and the BSO present Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso; Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2, and the New York premiere of Thierry Escaich’s Les Chants de l’aube Cello Concerto featuring Gautier Capuçon. The next evening includes Sibelius’s Luonnotar with soprano Golda Schultz; Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5; plus the New York premiere of Thomas Adès’s Air for Violin and Orchestra (co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall) featuring Anne-Sophie Mutter.

IMANI WINDS
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

Imani Winds return with guests soprano Janinah Burnett and pianist Cory Smythe, performing works from their Grammy-nominated album Bruits, including the New York premieres of Vijay Iyer’s Bruits and Frederic Rzewski’s Sometimes, Reena Esmail’s The Light is the Same, and the world premieres of Taylor’s “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free” (arr. Mark Dover) and Williams’s “St. Martin de Porres” (arr. Helen Sung), plus Andy Akiho’s BeLoud, BeLoved, BeLonging.

THÉOTIME LANGLOIS DE SWARTE, Violin
WILLIAM CHRISTIE, Harpsichord
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

Harpsichordist William Christie—founder of Les Arts Florissants and the “venerated elder stateman of early music” (Opera News)—appears with violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte in a recital program featuring sonatas by Handel and Corelli as well as lesser known works by Senaillé and Leclair.

LES ARTS FLORISSANTS
Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

William Christie returns with his acclaimed Baroque musical ensemble Les Arts Florissants in their first Carnegie Hall appearance in fifteen years, presenting a program titled Music for the Holy Week featuring works by the prolific French Baroque composer Charpentier, whose opera Les arts florissants (1685) inspired the ensemble’s name.

JERUSALEM QUARTET
Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Zankel Hall)

In its return to Zankel Hall, the renowned Jerusalem Quartet present a timely program titled Music Under Tyranny, featuring string quartets by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and Bartók.

EMANUEL AX, Piano
Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 8:00 PM
(Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)

Pianist Emanuel Ax offers a thoughtful program, bookended by two Schubert piano sonatas and rounded out with selections by Liszt, including several of the composer’s inventive transcriptions of songs by Schubert.

VERONA QUARTET
Friday, April 28, 2023 at 7:30 PM
(Weill Recital Hall)

The Verona Quartet performs a program titled Inside Out showcasing works by Bartók, Bacewicz, and Beethoven. This concert is presented by Carnegie Hall in partnership with Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award, a prize given biennially to rising string quartets.

SPRING FAMILY DAY: SPRING FEST
Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 12:00 PM
(Resnick Education Wing)

Enjoy free, interactive, and fun musical activities and performances in Carnegie Hall’s Resnick Education Wing. Recommended for families with children ages 3-10, Family Day is an anticipated musical adventure that returns each season with brand-new themes and activities. This April, journey through a celebration of the earth, nature, and all things spring! Activities are ongoing from 12 PM to 4 PM.