Carnegie Hall Live Series

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NEW SEASON beginning April 14, 2023!

A new season of Carnegie Hall Live, a broadcast series featuring concert recordings captured live during the 22-23 season from New York City's world-famous concert hall, launches on April 14! The 13-part series begins with Carnegie's Opening Night Gala concert with The Philadelphia Orchestra and soloist Daniil Trifonov and continues with performances from some of the classical music world’s most esteemed artists.

Through March 31, 2023, you are still welcome to carry any of the broadcasts from the prior season listed below.

Highlights include:

- Marin Alsop leading the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra for its first-ever Carnegie Hall performance in a program including Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade and works by 20th-century Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos;

-the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, in its first Carnegie Hall appearance in more than 30 years;

-pianist Mitsuko Uchida leading the Mahler Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard in two of Mozart's late piano concertos;

-the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra performing for the first time at Carnegie Hall since 1968 under the direction of Chief Conductor Susanna Mälkki;

-the Sphinx Virtuosi, a chamber orchestra featuring alumni of the prestigious Sphinx Competition, in a concert culminating the 25th anniversary year of the Sphinx Organization;

-Kirill Petrenko with the Berliner Philharmoniker, in his first Carnegie appearance as the orchestra’s Chief Conductor;

- Christian Thielemann with the Vienna Philharmonic;

-Franz Welser-Möst with The Cleveland Orchestra in Schubert's dramatic Mass No 6;

and more!

Air window: April 14, 2023 to March 31, 2024
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Highlights include:- Marin Alsop leading the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra for its first-ever Carnegie Hall performance in a program including Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade and works by 20th-century Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos; -the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Music and Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, in its first Carnegie Hall appearance in more than 30 years;-pianist Mitsuko Uchida leading the Mahler Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard in two of Mozart's late piano concertos;-the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra performing for the first time at Carnegie Hall since 1968 under the direction of Chief Conductor Susanna Mälkki;-the Sphinx Virtuosi, a chamber orchestra featuring alumni of the prestigious Sphinx Competition, in a concert culminating the 25th anniversary year... Show full description


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13 Pieces

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Every summer, fabulous musicians ages 16-19 workshop at Purchase College to create the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NY...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
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The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra returned to Carnegie Hall on May 9, 2023 under the exceptional leadership of Susanna Mälkki, a conductor revere...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
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Internationally renowned soprano Jeanine De Bique makes her Zankel Hall debut alongside opera and early music ensemble Concerto Köln. The program f...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
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Mitsuko Uchida is an incomparable interpreter of Mozart. From her deeply studied readings and performances to her leadership of the Mahler Chamber ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
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The world-renowned Vienna Philharmonic returned to Carnegie Hall on March 3, 2023 with a program of Schoenberg and Richard Strauss. The concert beg...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
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Anne-Sophie Mutter—the “undisputed queen of violin-playing” (The Times, London)—returns with the Mutter Virtuosi—an exclusive, constantly evolving ...

  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
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The Cleveland Orchestra, “one of the finest ensembles in the nation and the world” (The New York Times), returns with a program that highlights the...

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
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“An ensemble of exceptional insight” (The Telegraph), the Brentano String Quartet performs masterworks with reverence and, with an admirable balanc...

  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:01
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A self-conducted chamber orchestra, Sphinx Virtuosi is the most prestigious group of musicians to represent the magnificently impactful Sphinx Orga...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
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The Berliner Philharmoniker returns in bold fashion with Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko—in his debut performances with the orchestra in New York—w...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:01
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The Los Angeles Philharmonic performs a program of music from the Americas, including a New York premiere by Gabriela Ortiz, whom Gustavo Dudamel h...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:01
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In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Brazil’s independence, the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra made its Carnegie Hall debut with a program fitt...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
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In this 2022 Opening Night Gala concert, the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin was joined by pianist Daniil ...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00