You’re in Luck

Can’t attend tonight’s Chinese New Year celebration with Lang Lang at the Philharmonic? You’re in luck: WQXR 105.9 FM and WQXR.org will broadcast the concert LIVE! In addition to Lang Lang performing Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1, the concert will feature Philharmonic Principal Oboe Liang Wang performing Chen Qigang’s Extase for oboe and orchestra, bamboo flutist Junqiao Tang, and the Quintessenso Mongolian Children’s Choir — in its first ever appearance outside of China — performing in traditional Mongolian dress.

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On this day in Philharmonic History:

Conductor Erich Leinsdorf made his New York Philharmonic conducting debut in Vienna on August 19, 1972, with a program featuring Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1, and the overture to Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. 

Sofia Gubaidulina’s “Two Paths”

Music Director Emeritus Kurt Masur and Principal Viola Cynthia Phelps discuss Sofia Gubaidulina’s double viola concerto Two Paths, a work commissioned in 1998 by Maestro Masur’s wife, Tomoko, for the New York Philharmonic, Mr. Masur, Ms. Phelps, and Associate Principal Viola Rebecca Young.

Philharmonic Assistant Conductor Daniel Boico conducts this work on the program, which also features Mr. Masur conducting Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 and Liszt’s Les Préludes, April 13–14 and 16, at Avery Fisher Hall.