Carnegie Hall

This isn't just a high-profile booking; it’s a reunion of three longtime friends—Evgeny Kissin, Joshua Bell, and Steven Isserlis—who typically sell out the hall solo but are coming together for a program steeped in Jewish memory and shared history. The second half belongs entirely to Tchaikovsky’s massive A-minor trio, a piece so demanding and emotionally raw that it requires exactly this level of individual virtuosity to keep the dense, folk-infused melodies from feeling overwhelmed.

Soprano Lise Davidsen makes her Carnegie Hall recital debut with an all-Schubert program, a long-held wish of hers. With pianist James Baillieu, the set spans "Erlkönig," "Du bist die Ruh," "Gretchen am Spinnrade," "Der Tod und das Mädchen," and selections from Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister.

The Metropolitan Opera's orchestra takes the Carnegie stage for a single-work program: Bruckner's Eighth Symphony, led by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. AllMusic called his interpretation "certainly one of the most awe-inspiring ever made … as immense, far-reaching, and stupendous as the composer ever could have wished."

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met Orchestra in an evening of Mahler with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. The program opens with Saariaho's Lumière et pesanteur, continues with Mahler's five-song Rückert-Lieder (DiDonato), and closes with Mahler's Fourth Symphony, known for its sleigh-bell opening, a country fiddle solo voicing "Death," and a fourth-movement vocal finale (DiDonato again).