The New York Philharmonic is one of the world's longest-running and most celebrated orchestras. This weekly radio program presents concerts from the orchestra's subscription season, along with selections from the Philharmonic's tours, Summertime Classics, and residency at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado. There are also occasional thematic programs and encore presentations that explore the breadth and depth of the Philharmonic's extensive library of commercial and archival recordings. Hosted by Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin, the New York Philharmonic This Week has been the recipient of numerous broadcasting awards.
Arturo Toscanini, Alan Gilbert and Leonard Bernstein, conductors
Charles Bressler, tenor
Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. H. J. Wood): Toccata and Fugue in D-minor, BWV 565
Modest Mussorgsky and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Night on Bald Mountain
Charles Gounod: Ballet Music from Faust
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique: Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath
Franz Liszt: A Faust Symphony
Edvard Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Darius Milhaud, Igor Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith, and Richard Rodgers, conductors
Louise Parker, alto
George London, bass
Schola Cantorum
Darius Milhaud: Suite française, Op. 248
Igor Stravinsky: Firebird Suite
Paul Hindemith: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d: Requiem for Those We Love
Richard Rodgers: The Carousel Waltz
Simone Young, conductor
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
Johann Sebastian Bach (orchestrated by Anton Webern): Fuga (Ricercata) from “Musical Offering”
Antonin Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104
Larissa Lakner: Three-Minute Cello Concerto
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor. Op. 68