92nd Street Y Announces Return of In-Person Fall Classical Music Season
Featuring the world-renowned pianist and Mozart specialist Richard Goode with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; the 92Y debut of Sphinx Competition winner, and more.
By: Chloe Rabinowitz Jul. 29, 2021
The 92nd Street Y has announced its fall classical music season today, its first fully in-person season since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Comprising 14 concerts performed in 92Y's historic Kaufmann Concert Hall, the fall season includes two appearances by world-renowned pianist Richard Goode; an all-Rossini program from tenors Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres; the first performance by The Knights as 92Y's inaugural Ensemble in Residence; the 92Y debuts of rising star violinist Randall Goosby, intrepid cellist Seth Parker Woods, and the Grammy Award-nominated Aizuri Quartet; guitarist Ana Vidovic; MacArthur "Genius" Award winner and pianist Jeremy Denk, and others, performing a diverse group of repertoire which includes works of Eleanor Alberga, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Boulogne, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jessie Montgomery, César Franck, Florence Price, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and more.
A full list of performances and dates are listed below. Concerts are for fully vaccinated audiences. For more information, including purchasing tickets and COVID-19 protocols for in-person performances, please visit 92Y.org/Concerts.
The Marshall Weinberg Fall 2021 Classical Music Season:
ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Richard Goode, piano
Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 7:30 PM
Boulogne: Overture to L'Amant Anonyme
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503
Mozart: Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425 "Linz"
Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.
TAKÁCS QUARTET
GARRICK OHLSSON, piano
Saturday, October 23, 2021, 8 PM
All Brahms:
Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26
Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34
Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.
Lawrence Brownlee, tenor
Michael Spyres, tenor
MYRA HUANG, piano
Wednesday, October 27, 2021, 7:30 PM
All Rossini:
Il barbiere di Siviglia: "All' idea di quel metallo" Act I
Riccardo e Zoraide: "S' Ella mi èognor fedele" Act I; "Donala a questocore" Act I; "Teco or sara" Act II
Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra: "Deh! Scusa i trasporti" Act II
Otello: "Ah! vieni, nel tuo sangue vendichero le offese" Act II
Le Siege de Corinthe: "Grand Dieu, faut-il qu'un people" Act III; "Cher Cleomene" Act III
Armida: "Inquale aspetto imbelle" Act III
And additional Bel Canto repertoire to be announced
Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.
SETH PARKER WOODS, cello
ANDREW ROSENBLUM, piano
Saturday, October 30, 2021, 8 PM
Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 58
George Walker: Cello Sonata
Price: Andante, from Piano Sonata in E Minor
Schumann: Fantasy Pieces, Op. 73
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Calvary Ostinato, from Lamentations
Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.
AIZURI QUARTET
Wednesday, November 3, 2021, 7:30 PM
Strozzi: L'usignuolo
Strozzi: L'amante modesto
Eleanor Alberga: String Quartet No. 1
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-flat Major, Op. 127
Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.
JERUSALEM QUARTET
Saturday, November 6, 2021, 8 PM
Works by Brahms, Dvořák and others to be announced
Concert also available via livestream and available for 48 hours from time of broadcast.
Richard Goode, piano
Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 7:30 PM
Schubert: Six Moments Musicaux, D. 780
Schubert: Sonata in A Minor, D. 784
Schumann: Papillons, Op. 2
Bartok: 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71
Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.
BERTA ROJAS, guitar
Saturday, November 20, 2021, 8 PM
Works of Presti, Anido, Sérgio Assad, and others
Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.
Jeremy Denk, piano
Saturday, December 4, 2021, 8 PM
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
ANA VIDOVIC, guitar
Sunday, December 5, 2021, 3 PM
Program to be announced
Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.
RANDALL GOOSBY, violin
ZHU WANG, piano
Thu, December 9, 2021, 7:30 PM
Mozart: Violin Sonata in B-flat Major, K 454
Price: Fantasy No. 1 in G Minor
Price: Fantasy No. 2 in F-sharp Minor
Price: Adoration
Franck: Violin Sonata in A Major
THE KNIGHTS
ERIC JACOBSEN, conductor
COLIN JACOBSEN, violin
Saturday, December 11, 2021, 8 PM
Jessie Montgomery: Records from a Vanishing City
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished"
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Gottschalk: Symphony No. 2 "À Montevideo"
Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.
MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN, piano
Sunday, December 12, 2021, 3 PM
C.P.E. Bach: Suite in E Minor, Wq. 6/12
G. Catoire: Quatre Morceaux, Op. 12
Beethoven: Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier"
Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.
CONRAD TAO, piano
Saturday, December 18, 2021, 8 PM
Conrad Tao: Improvisation
John Adams: China Gates
Jason Eckardt: Antennaria plantaginifolia, "Pussytoes," (from A Compendium of Catskill Native Botanicals, Book 2)
J.S. Bach: Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV 641
Conrad Tao: Grids of E
Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15
Fred Hersch: Pastorale (Dedicated to Robert Schumann)
Conrad Tao: New Work
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110
Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.
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