Alan Gilbert and NY Philharmonic: 2010-11 iTunes Pass To Launch 12/14

The New York Philharmonic will launch Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: 2010-11 Season, its second series of recordings with Music Director Alan Gilbert, beginning December 14, 2010, as a new iTunes Pass. With iTunes Pass, music fans get music and other content delivered directly to their iTunes music library as it becomes available, over a season, tour, or other set period of time.

Twelve live recordings of Alan Gilbert's concerts from the 2010-11 season will be released via the iTunes Pass between December 2010 and August 2011. This season, for the first time, every album will also be available for individual download on iTunes. In the 2009-10 season the Philharmonic launched the world's first classical music iTunes Pass, featuring works performed during Alan Gilbert's inaugural season.

Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: 2010-11 Season will include New York Philharmonic concert recordings of nearly 30 works performed during Alan Gilbert's second season as the Orchestra's Music Director, including the highly anticipated production of Janá?ek's The Cunning Little Vixen, and featuring wide-ranging repertoire and performances by The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence Anne-Sophie Mutter, Pinchas Zukerman, Thomas Hampson, Emanuel Ax, and Lisa Batiashvili, among other soloists.

"The New York Philharmonic's iTunes Pass is a very current and immediate way for people to have access to what we're doing here, and for us to reach a wider and wider audience," Alan Gilbert said, "I am impressed with the audio quality of the series. I am very happy that the Philharmonic is able to meet the interest generated by last season's Pass, and that we can now offer many of our performances to music lovers throughout the world."

The Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: 2010-11 Season iTunes Pass ($49.99) includes the 12 live recordings plus additional exclusive content including audio commentary from Alan Gilbert, as well as digital liner notes. Individual performances will also be available for download as albums ($9.99 to $13.99) following their release on the iTunes Pass.

Three albums will be available at the launch on December 14, and will include Alan Gilbert conducting Mahler's Symphony No. 6; Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber; Henri Dutilleux's Métaboles; Brahms's Violin Concerto with Pinchas Zuckerman; Brahms's Symphony No. 4; R. Strauss's Don Juan; and Webern's Passacaglia, Op. 1. Highlights of subsequent releases in the series will include the groundbreaking New York Premiere of The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence Magnus Lindberg's Kraft; Mendelssohn's Elijah, featuring baritone Gerald Finley; the World Premiere of Aaron Jay Kernis's a Voice, a Messenger, with Principal Trumpet Philip Smith; Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, with baritone Thomas Hampson; the New York Premiere of Thomas Adès's In Seven Days, with the composer as piano soloist; Mahler's Symphony No. 5; selections from Debussy's Estampes for solo piano, performed by pianist Emanuel Ax, coupled with Messiaen's Couleurs de la cité céleste; the World Premiere of Sebastian Currier's Time Machines, with Anne-Sophie Mutter; Janá?ek's The Cunning Little Vixen; and selections from the New York Philharmonic's new-music series CONTACT!, among many other works (see complete schedule below).

Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: 2010-11 Season will be produced and distributed by the New York Philharmonic, and was created in collaboration with IODA, the Philharmonic's digital recordings technology partner and a leading independent digital distributor of classical music.
With iTunes Pass, fans get music and other content from their favorite artists delivered directly to their iTunes library as it becomes available over a season, tour, or other set period of time. iTunes Pass buyers will receive an e-mail notification when new content is available, and new items will automatically be delivered to their iTunes music library. All iTunes music is delivered in the iTunes Plus format, which features the highest quality 256 Kbps AAC encoding with no DRM (Digital Rights Management). When an iTunes Pass is purchased, at any time, users immediately receive all previously released items in the Pass, and new items will be automatically delivered the moment they are available.

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The New York Philharmonic, a longtime media pioneer, was the first major American orchestra to offer downloadable concerts, recorded live, in 2004. Following on this innovation, in 2009 the Orchestra announced the first-ever subscription download series: Alan Gilbert: The Inaugural Season, available exclusively on iTunes, produced and distributed by the New York Philharmonic, and comprising more than 80 works, including 7 commissions, performed during the 2009-10 season. Since 1917 the Philharmonic has made nearly 2,000 recordings, with more than 500 currently available. The Philharmonic began radio broadcasts in 1922, and is currently represented by The New York Philharmonic This Week - syndicated nationally 52 weeks per year, and available on nyphil.org. On television, in the 1950s and '60s, the Philharmonic inspired a generation through Bernstein's Young People's Concerts on CBS. Its television presence has continued with annual appearances on Live From Lincoln Center on PBS, and in 2003 it made history as the first Orchestra ever to perform live on the Grammy awards, one of the most-watched television events worldwide.

Alan Gilbert AND THE New York Philharmonic:
2010-11 SEASON RELEASE SCHEDULE*
All Performances Conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert

December 14, 2010
Release 1:
R STRAUSS Don Juan
Henri DUTILLEUX Métaboles
HINDEMITH Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

Release 2:
MAHLER Symphony No. 6

Release 3:
WEBERN Passacaglia, Op. 1
BRAHMS Violin Concerto
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4

January 18, 2011
Release 4:
DEBUSSY Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Magnus LINDBERG Kraft

February 15, 2011
Release 5:
MENDELSSOHN Elijah
Carolyn Sampson, soprano
Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano
Allan Clayton, tenor
Gerald Finley, bass-baritone
New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director

March 15, 2011
Release 6:
VIVALDI Concerto for Four Violins in B minor, RV 580
Sheryl Staples, Michelle Kim, Marc Ginsberg, Lisa Kim, violin
Aaron Jay KERNIS a Voice, a Messenger (World Premiere-New York
Philharmonic Commission)
Philip Smith, trumpet
HINDEMITH Horn Concerto
Philip Myers, horn
Christopher Rouse Oboe Concerto (New York Premiere)
Liang Wang, Oboe
RAVEL Boléro

April 12, 2011
Release 7:
MOZART Symphony No. 40
MAHLER Kindertotenlieder
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Thomas ADÈS In Seven Days (Concerto for Piano and Moving Image)
(New York Premiere)
Thomas Adès, piano
Tal Rosner, video artist

May 17, 2011
Release 8:
DEBUSSY Selections from Estampes for solo piano
Emanuel Ax, piano
MESSIAEN Couleurs de la cité céleste
Emanuel Ax, piano
MAHLER Symphony No. 5

June 14, 2011
Release 9:
BARTÓK Violin Concerto No. 2
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3, Eroica

July 19, 2011
Release 10:
Sebastian CURRIER Time Machines (World Premiere)
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
BRUCKNER Symphony No. 2

August 16, 2011
Release 11:
JANÁ?EK The Cunning Little Vixen
Doug Fitch, director
Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano
Alan Opie, baritone
Marie Lenormand, mezzo-soprano
Keith Jameson, tenor

August 30, 2011
Release 12:
Selections from CONTACT!, the New York Philharmonic's new-music series

*Artists, repertoire and release schedule subject to change.

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