Women’s History Month, Leonard Bernstein, and J. S. Bach on Carnegie Hall+

Celebrating Women’s History Month and March 2023 Releases on Carnegie Hall+

In honor of Women’s History Month this March, Carnegie Hall+ celebrates history-making women, as well as extraordinary female artists who are making history today. See Yuja Wang, the first pianist to take on all four of Rachmaninoff’s concertos in one concert at Carnegie Hall, perform his famous Third Piano Concerto with Xian Zhang, the first woman to ever conduct the Staatskapelle Dresden. Don’t miss a lively performance with Marin Alsop, the first female conductor to lead the Last Night of London’s BBC Proms.

New to Carnegie Hall+ this March, experience the incomparable Leonard Bernstein conduct Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic, as well as two programs of Sir András Schiff performing preludes and fugues from J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. Daniel Barenboim continues his cycle of beloved piano sonatas by Beethoven, and the Royal Concertgebouw performs an all-Tchaikovsky program that features both Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet.

Check out sneak previews of these new programs below and start watching.

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Yuja Wang: Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto

Yuja Wang is soloist in Rachmaninoff’s breathtaking Third Piano Concerto with Xian Zhang, who in 2008 became the first woman to conduct the Staatskapelle Dresden in its main hall in its 450-year history.

Additional Programs

Leonard Bernstein conducts a spirited performance of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic.

Vienna Philharmonic: Mahler’s Fourth Symphony conducted by Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein’s pioneering Mahler cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic includes this performance of the radiant Fourth Symphony, featuring soprano Edith Mathis in the final movement, depicting a child’s vision of heaven.

Bach expert Sir András Schiff in rare performance of The Well-Tempered Clavier on piano.

J. S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier with Sir András Schiff

Book I
Well-Tempered Clavier< pairs preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys. Sir András Schiff, renowned for his Bach performances, is one of few pianists to perform the complete set in recital.

Book II
Bach wrote his second collection of 24 preludes and 24 fugues two decades after the first in a richer, more complex style. As in Book I, each key presents a distinctive world. Sir András Schiff gives a recital performance of the entire set.

Simone Lamsma performs Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Elim Chan

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and Swan Lake with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

For the Concertgebouw’s 2019 opening, conductor Elim Chan leads an all-Tchaikovsky program that features the Suite from Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, and Violin Concerto with soloist Simone Lamsma.

Daniel Barenboim performing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas as two cameras film the complete cycle

Beethoven’s “Les Adieux” Piano Sonata

Unusually, this sonata’s movements have titles: Farewell, Absence, and Reunion. Beethoven wrote the work after Napoleon’s 1809 invasion of Vienna, which forced the composer’s patron, Archduke Rudolph (who was also the work’s dedicatee), to flee the city.

Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 27

Beethoven wrote this two-movement work in 1814 at the end of his middle period. An impassioned E-minor movement leads into a lyrical E-major rondo whose style anticipates Schubert’s.

Daniel Barenboim rehearses at the piano on stage, an empty auditorium behind

Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 28

In the first of his late piano sonatas, the composer takes a new direction: inward, polyphonic, and profound. Beethoven modestly described the work, which he wrote in the summer of 1816, as “a series of impressions and reveries.”