February 22, 2012 SUPPLEMENT ALAN GILBERT and the NEW

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FOR RELEASE: February 22, 2012 SUPPLEMENT

ALAN GILBERT AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC 2012–13 SEASON

ALAN GILBERT OPENS THE SEASON with The Rite of Spring, Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes Performs Kurtág and Beethoven, September 19–22 THE OPENING GALA: Respighi, and Itzhak Perlman Performs Tchaikovsky, September 27

World Premiere of ANDERS HILLBORG Song Cycle with RENÉE FLEMING at Carnegie Hall

THE NIELSEN PROJECT CONTINUES — The Three Concertos Performed and Recorded

THREE AMERICANS: IVES’s FOURTH SYMPHONY, World Premiere by Christopher ROUSE, BERNSTEIN’s Serenade

New Work by STEVEN STUCKY, Barber with GIL SHAHAM, Rachmaninoff

Alan Gilbert To Conduct CONTACT! Program

THE BACH VARIATIONS: A Philharmonic Festival — BACH’s Mass in B minor

EUROPE / SPRING 2013

JUNE JOURNEY: GILBERT’S PLAYLIST

THE JAZZ EFFECT: Stravinsky, Shostakovich, COPLAND’s Clarinet Concerto,

WYNTON MARSALIS’s Swing Symphony with THE JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA, May 31–June 1

GERALD FINLEY as DALLAPICCOLA’s IL PRIGIONIERO LISA BATIASHVILI Plays Prokofiev, June 6–11

A RING JOURNEY, Alan Gilbert’s Arrangement of Wagner’s Ring Cycle ROUSE’s Seeing with EMANUEL AX, June 20–22

STRAVINSKY ON STAGE Director/Designer DOUG FITCH and Giants Are Small Animate PETRUSHKA with THE FAIRY’S KISS, June 27–29

“I feel that the chemistry between me and the Orchestra is ever-evolving and deepening” said Alan Gilbert. “It has been a great joy to be able to make music with these incredible musicians. Also, the experience of sharing what we have to offer with the audience in a very palpable, visceral, and potent way — it’s really what we’re here for. I want our audience to know that we stand for something, and that we really believe something about art, and about the music we play.” — Alan Gilbert The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair

New York, N.Y.—The 2012–13 season is infused by the revitalization and energy that has become a hallmark of the New York Philharmonic since Alan Gilbert became Music Director, with each program reflecting his determination to make every concert an event. New partnerships with Christopher Rouse and Emanuel Ax demonstrate the Orchestra’s strong and continuing relationships with conductors and soloists who bring not only mastery to their art, but also a passionate point of view. The Bach Variations: A Philharmonic Festival expands the Orchestra’s festival concept, this time taking a multidimensional approach to a single composer through a variety of conductors’ and artists’ interpretations, with performances in Avery Fisher Hall and related events in collaboration with 92nd Street Y. A spring tour to Europe — the Orchestra’s fifth there with Alan Gilbert — advances the Philharmonic’s role as musical envoy to the world, and features Magnus Lindberg’s raucous Kraft in the Volkswagen Transparent Factory in Dresden, Germany; the new work that Christopher Rouse is composing for the Philharmonic; and a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Vienna’s Konzerthaus. The Music Director’s final four weeks in the season — June Journey: Gilbert’s Playlist — will feature a variety of programs, presented in a condensed time frame, which showcase themes and ideas that Alan Gilbert has introduced. The concerts will combine works to reveal new perspectives, include collaborations with close associates such as Lincoln Center neighbors, feature a rarely performed opera, and conclude with a fresh take on a classic theatrical work, with director/designer Doug Fitch animating Stravinsky’s Petrushka.

New works by Anders Hillborg, Tristan Murail, and Steven Stucky, as well as by Christopher Rouse; all of Brahms’s symphonies and concertos, as well as several of his chamber works; the continuation of the Nielsen Project, a multiyear initiative to perform and record the Danish composer’s orchestral works; World, U.S., and New York Premieres presented on the Philharmonic’s new-music series CONTACT! — presented by today’s leading artists and conductors, as well as by the Philharmonic itself — all combine to create a season of major concert events, performed at the highest level of artistry.

ALAN GILBERT OPENS THE SEASON with The Rite of Spring Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes Performs Kurtág and Beethoven, September 19–22

The Philharmonic’s 2012–13 season opens with Music Director Alan Gilbert conducting subscription concerts on September 19–22, 2012, featuring works by György Kurtág, Beethoven, and Stravinsky. The Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, making his 25th appearance with the Orchestra, begins the evening with Kurtág’s … quasi una fantasia …, a 1988 spatial work for piano and smaller ensemble that explores spatial relationships by placing groups of instruments throughout the concert hall. He continues with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Composed

during a transformative time in Beethoven’s life, it was finished in 1800 and premiered by the composer in 1803, alongside his Symphony No. 2 and Christ on the Mount of Olives . Concluding the program will be The Rite of Spring , Stravinsky’s landmark ballet score that was premiered in 1913 at the Ballets Russes in Paris, inciting one of most famous Classical music riots in history; this marks the Music Director’s first performance of the work with the New York Philharmonic.

Alan Gilbert said: “Leif Ove Andsnes is an incredible musician, with a probing musical mind. He’s very serious in what he does but never austere. When he plays a serious piece such as Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto, there’s a stylistic rigor that he brings to it, but also a kind of contemporary whimsy. I love that he asked us to combine the Beethoven concerto with the Kurtág … quasi una fantasia …, which involves spatial elements; the combination reflects what Leif Ove sees as very important and meaningful connections between the Kurtág and the Beethoven. I think it will be a fascinating journey for our audience.”

A 2011 Grammy nominee for his recording of Rachmaninoff’s Third and Fourth Piano Concertos, Leif Ove Andsnes is acclaimed for his elegant, masterful interpretations of a wide variety of piano repertoire. He made his Philharmonic debut in February 1997, performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with conductor Neeme Järvi, and appeared most recently in December 2009 playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23, conducted by Alan Gilbert.

THE OPENING GALA: Respighi, and Itzhak Perlman Performs Tchaikovsky, September 27

Following these season-opening concerts is the festive Opening Gala, on September 27, 2012, conducted by Alan Gilbert and featuring Itzhak Perlman, a longtime friend of the Philharmonic, who will perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. The concert will begin and end with two of the three works in Respighi’s “Roman Trilogy” — the symphonic poems Fountains of Rome (1916), inspired by four of the city’s most iconic fountains at different times of the day, and Pines of Rome (1924), which depicts the pine trees that are integral parts of some of Rome’s most famous locations. The evening will be televised nationally on Live From Lincoln Center on PBS stations.

Mr. Perlman made his Philharmonic debut in 1965, but has performed the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto only once before with the Orchestra, in January 1979 under the baton of Zubin Mehta.

Alan Gilbert said: “The Opening Gala is going to be an exciting concert. We’re always happy to have Itzhak Perlman playing with us — especially the beloved and marvelous Tchaikovsky Concerto — and we also have two gorgeous, colorful pieces by Respighi, The Fountains of Rome and The Pines of Rome . These are some of the most virtuosic and exciting works, which everybody knows and loves and which the New York Philharmonic plays better than anybody.”

World Premiere of ANDERS HILLBORG Song Cycle with RENÉE FLEMING At Carnegie Hall

On April 26, 2013, Alan Gilbert will lead the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall in a program featuring the World Premiere of a song cycle by the Swedish composer Anders Hillborg, a New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with Carnegie Hall, performed by soprano Renée Fleming. The concert is part of Carnegie Hall’s Perspectives series with Ms. Fleming. Mr. Hillborg, acclaimed for his unusually rhythmic vocal and improvisational works, has been commissioned by many orchestras and conductors. He has won numerous prizes, including Swedish Gramophone ’s 1995 Composer of the Year award for his collaboration with singer Eva Dahlgren. Also on the program: Respighi’s Fountains of Rome and Ravel’s orchestration of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition .

Alan Gilbert said: “Anders Hillborg is a composer whose work I have enjoyed performing and championing over the last few years, and we have such a close musical relationship. One of the areas in which I feel that he has a lot of potential but really hasn’t explored very much is vocal music, so I’ve been pushing him for a long time now to write songs and vocal music. Renée Fleming has become very excited about his music, for understandable reasons — Hillborg himself had been a rocker, so there’s a kind of rhythmic excitement that anyone can identify with.”

Soprano Renée Fleming has appeared on four previous programs with the Philharmonic, most recently during the Opening Night concert of the Orchestra’s 2009–10 season, performing Messiaen’s Poèmes pour Mi, led by Alan Gilbert.

THE NIELSEN PROJECT CONTINUES — The Three Concertos, Performed and Recorded

The New York Philharmonic, led by Alan Gilbert, will continue to perform and record the six symphonies and three concertos by the Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865–1931), as part of The Nielsen Project, which was launched in the 2010–11 season. The coming season focuses on Nielsen’s three concertos. Violinist Nikolaj Znaider will perform the Violin Concerto on four nights, October 10–13, 2012; on two of these concerts, October 10 and 12, 2012, Philharmonic Principal Flute Robert Langevin will play the Flute Concerto, and the Clarinet Concerto will be performed October 11 and 13, 2012. The Nielsen Project will comprise four recordings, released by Denmark’s Dacapo label and distributed worldwide by the Naxos group beginning in the fall of 2012, to culminate in a boxed set that will be released in autumn 2015 to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The concerts will also include Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2, Little Russian .

Alan Gilbert said: “The Nielsen canon really deserves to be better known by our audiences; it is music that I know people like. People often talk about Nielsen and Sibelius in the same breath, perhaps because they’re both Scandinavian symphonists, but they really couldn’t be more different. There’s something wonderfully craggy and natural and forbidding about the sound that Nielsen creates, but it’s always couched in a kind of Elgar-like romantic warmth. It’s really splendid music.”

The earliest of Nielsen’s three concertos is that for violin, which dates to 1911. Composed for Hungarian violinist Emil Telmányi, Nielsen’s son-in-law, it is written in a more neo-Classical style than the later two concertos. Premiered in February 1912 by the Royal Orchestra at the Odd Fellows Mansion in Copenhagen, it was performed by Peder Møller and conducted by Nielsen himself. The Flute and Clarinet Concertos were written in the late 1920s for members of the Copenhagen Wind Quintet (Nielsen had intended to write concertos for all members of the group, but poor health only allowed him to compose the first two). The Flute Concerto, written in 1926 for Gilbert Jespersen, was premiered in Paris in October of that year with a temporary ending, and was first played in its present form in Copenhagen the following January. The Clarinet Concerto was written for Aage Oxenvad in 1928, and is one long, continuous movement. It was first played for a private concert in September 1928, and had its public premiere that October in Copenhagen, conducted by Emil Telmányi.

THREE AMERICANS: IVES’s FOURTH SYMPHONY, World Premiere by Christopher ROUSE, BERNSTEIN’s Serenade

On April 17–20, 2013, Alan Gilbert will conduct a program featuring three iconic American composers whose lives have spanned almost 150 years of American history: Christopher Rouse, The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence; Leonard Bernstein, the Orchestra’s Laureate Conductor; and Charles Ives. The all-American program will open with the World Premiere of a new work by Mr. Rouse — a New York Philharmonic Commission — followed by Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato’s “Symposium”), a five-movement concerto from 1954 inspired by a dialogue of statements in praise of love written by the ancient Greek philosopher; violinist Joshua Bell will be the soloist. The program will conclude with Ives’s Fourth Symphony, written between 1910 and 1916; this represents the first time Mr. Gilbert returns to the work with the Orchestra since performances in May 2004 as part of the Philharmonic Festival: Charles Ives — An American Original.

Alan Gilbert said: “I’ll never forget the experience with Ives’s Fourth Symphony at the New York Philharmonic. It was my first pass through the piece and I had spent a lot of time studying it and trying to figure out what Ives really meant. It became very important to me very quickly. What the New York Philharmonic was able to do with it at that time — both to conquer it technically and also to transmit its very spiritual, profound message — was really definitive. The work never fails to make a huge impression on the audience. In the context of this program, which will be all American music, I think it makes a lot of sense. Ives is a composer who really influenced the generations of American composers that followed him. We'll have a new work by Christopher Rouse, our Composer-in- Residence, and then a piece that Bernstein called perhaps his most important serious work, the Serenade for Violin and Orchestra. It’s a program that can make us all proud of what has happened in composition in America over the last 100 years.”

New Work by STEVEN STUCKY, Barber with GIL SHAHAM, Rachmaninoff

Alan Gilbert will lead the New York Premiere of a new work by Steven Stucky on November 29–December 1, 2012, a New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The program will include Barber’s Violin Concerto, with Gil Shaham as soloist, and Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances.

Steven Stucky said: “For many years I have avoided calling any of my works ‘Symphony’ (after having written four of them as a kid). Now, though, I know it's time for me to test myself on this most imposing of genres. I will never have a better opportunity than now to take that plunge. My two favorite orchestras, New York and Los Angeles, deserve my very best efforts.”

Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his Second Concerto for Orchestra, Steven Stucky is renowned for a wide range of works, from large-scale orchestral pieces to a cappella miniatures for chorus. Active as a conductor, writer, lecturer, and teacher, he was formerly composer-in-residence and consulting composer for new music of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Now the Given Foundation Professor of Composition at Cornell University, he has also taught at the Aspen Music Festival and School, Eastman School of Music, and University of California–Berkeley. Mr. Stucky is a recipient of the Lutosławski Society’s medal, and his works regularly appear on the programs of the world’s major orchestras. He was the host of the New York Philharmonic’s Hear & Now series from 2005 to 2009. The Orchestra has previously performed the World Premiere of Stucky’s Rhapsodies (a Philharmonic Co- Commission), in 2008; selections from Spirit Voices, on a Young People’s Concert in 2008; and will perform Son et Lumière, in February 2012.

JUNE JOURNEY: GILBERT’S PLAYLIST

Alan Gilbert’s final four weeks in the season will feature a variety of programs, presented in a condensed time frame, that showcase many of the themes and ideas of the Music Director’s tenure. The concerts will combine works to reveal new perspectives, include collaborations with close associates such as Lincoln Center neighbors, feature a rarely performed opera, and conclude with a fresh take on a classic theatrical work, with director/designer Doug Fitch animating Stravinsky’s Petrushka.

THE JAZZ EFFECT: Stravinsky, Shostakovich, COPLAND’s Clarinet Concerto, WYNTON MARSALIS’s Swing Symphony with THE JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA, May 31–June 1

Jazz and its influences on orchestral music form the basis of the program on May 31 and June 1, 2013, when Alan Gilbert leads the New York Philharmonic in Copland’s Clarinet Concerto — a jazz-inspired work from 1950, first performed by the Philharmonic with Benny Goodman in 1969; and Wynton Marsalis’s Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3). Joining the Philharmonic for the symphony will be Mr. Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra — the forces that gave the work’s U.S. Premiere on Opening Night in September 2010. The program opens with

Assistant Conductor Case Scaglione leading the Orchestra in Stravinsky’s Ragtime and Shostakovich’s “Tea for Two”-inspired Tahiti Trot. The Philharmonic will perform Swing Symphony on the Rush Hour Concert, May 30, 2013.

Alan Gilbert said: “We all had such a great time working with Wynton in 2010, and the piece was an amazing success. He has continued to work on it so we wanted to show his more recent thoughts on the piece. The rest of the program combines this important jazz- based work with other pieces in the repertoire that have similar kinds of crossing-the- boundary dimensions. It is a chance for us to explore works that deal with jazz and how jazz has affected and permeated the symphonic world.”

In addition to Mr. Marsalis’s Swing Symphony, the program’s jazz-influenced works are by some of the 20th century’s most influential composers. Stravinsky’s 1918 work Ragtime , scored for a small chamber orchestra of 11 instruments, is an expansion of the “Ragtime” section of his L’Histoire du soldat. Composed a decade later, Shostakovich’s 1928 Tahiti Trot is the composer’s take on Vincent Youman’s “Tea for Two” from the musical No, No, Nanette, which had become a huge hit in Russia in spite of the Communist party’s official disdain for jazz, which officials considered to be a decadent capitalist form of music. Copland’s Clarinet Concerto was premiered in a 1950 radio broadcast by Benny Goodman and the NBC Radio Orchestra. Goodman later performed the work with the Philharmonic in 1969, and the Orchestra has since revisited it 60 times with former Principal Clarinet Stanley Drucker.

GERALD FINLEY as DALLAPICCOLA’S IL PRIGIONIERO LISA BATIASHVILI Plays Prokofiev, June 6–11

On June 6, 8, and 11, 2013, Alan Gilbert will conduct Luigi Dallapiccola’s serialist opera Il Prigioniero (The Prisoner), for which the 20th-century Italian composer wrote both the libretto and the music. An opera and prologue in one act, the seven-part work is based on a short story, La torture par l’espérance , which reflects the composer’s earlier choral piece, Canti di prigionia from 1938. A protest opera composed between 1944 and 1948, Il Prigioniero follows the story of a man imprisoned during the Inquisition who, when hopeful of his escape, finds that he’s been duped into believing he’s on his way to freedom when he falls into the arms of the Grand Inquisitor himself. Bass-baritone Gerald Finley — who sang the title role in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Alan Gilbert and the Philharmonic in November 2010 (following his portrayal of the title role in John Adams’s Dr. Atomic at The Metropolitan Opera, also led by Alan Gilbert, in 2008, a DVD of which received a Grammy Award in 2011 for Best Opera Recording) — will appear as The Prisoner, and soprano Patricia Racette will make her New York Philharmonic debut in the role of The Mother. Other soloists will be announced at a later date.

Alan Gilbert said: “Dallapiccola’s Il Prigioniero represents a school of music that has been underserved, and it is a powerful work that I know the Orchestra will play brilliantly. Gerald Finley has agreed to learn the piece, and that gives the project a dimension that you can only hope for. He is an amazing singer, but he is also one of the most thoughtful, intelligent, philosophically motivated artists performing today, which is exactly what this piece demands.”

The opening work on the program features Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili, a close associate of Alan Gilbert and who has already appeared with the Philharmonic 27 times, performing Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No 1. The concerto, which was completed in 1917, received its premiere at the Paris Opéra in 1923.

Alan Gilbert said: “Lisa Batiashvili plays in such a natural unaffected way. Of course, she’s a total master of the instrument, but the purity of sound and the natural effortless way in which the rhythms unfold under her hands is so sincere and so direct. I really love this kind of music-making, which never makes points for the sake of making points, but just tells the musical story in a very direct, unadorned way.”

A RING JOURNEY, Alan Gilbert’s Arrangement of Wagner’s Ring Cycle ROUSE’s Seeing with EMANUEL AX, June 20–22

On June 20–22, 2013, Alan Gilbert will lead the Philharmonic in A Ring Journey, his own arrangement of Erich Leinsdorf’s synthesis of orchestral music from Wagner’s Ring Cycle. A 55-minute work, A Ring Journey is a continuous visceral adaptation that begins with The Ride of the Valkyries and moves chronologically through the entire cycle, offering a rich orchestral telling of the complex story.

Alan Gilbert said: “It is always fun for a symphonic orchestra to play the music of Wagner because, generally speaking, it’s the province of opera orchestras. Unlike other music which, for whatever reason, is not played by symphony orchestras, Wagner’s work is absolutely some of the greatest music ever written, and it’s a find for orchestral musicians when they get to put their hands on this incredible sound world. Wagner is an amazing composer because without singers, without words, there’s something of the story that comes through. Even if you don’t know the story, it’s so obvious that it’s about something exciting and important and, for that reason, it works really well in the symphony hall.”

This program will also include a performance of Christopher Rouse’s Seeing for Piano and Orchestra, played by Emanuel Ax, in the first convergence of these two artistic residencies. The work, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, is dedicated to Mr. Ax, who performed its World Premiere in 1999 with the Orchestra.

Alan Gilbert said: “I think that certainly inasmuch as Chris Rouse really loves and admires Wagner (Chris even wrote a piece called Garettete Alberich, which is a percussion concerto that is entirely based on music from the Ring ), there is an emotional and dramatic connection between Chris’s music and the music of Wagner. I think the pieces work very well together.”

STRAVINSKY ON STAGE Director/Designer DOUG FITCH and Giants Are Small Animate PETRUSHKA with THE FAIRY’s KISS, June 27–29

Building on the success of critically acclaimed productions of Le Grand Macabre and The

Cunning Little Vixen , Alan Gilbert, director/designer Doug Fitch and Giants Are Small close the season with a theatrical evening, as Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka is brought to life through live animation, June 27–29, 2013.

Alan Gilbert said: “Doug Fitch and his production company, Giants Are Small, have become an integral part of the Philharmonic family. Le Grand Macabre and The Cunning Little Vixen were both triumphant.

“Doug has really put his finger on something with the projects he’s done in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic. He is a visual artist who has an incredibly developed dramatic sense, and he’s totally faithful and sensitive to the music. His artistic sensibility is ravishingly colorful. It’s a bit quirky and it has a homespun cast that never lets you forget that there’s someone who is actually there doing the drawings. I’m very interested in his philosophy of making the process of creating art visible. Audiences can see the musicians playing their instruments and hear the result of that process. Doug’s process of ‘live animation’ lets the audience see something being created and filmed and the result projected on a large screen behind the Orchestra.”

Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes gave the world premiere of Petrushka in 1911 at the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris. With a libretto by Alexandre Benois and Igor Stravinsky, Petrushka takes place during a pre-Lenten Russian carnival in St. Petersburg, where three puppets in a tiny theater come alive and experience love, revenge, and, ultimately, tragedy. Mr. Fitch has previously worked on a production of Petrushka at the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra; the Philharmonic’s production will include video projection, puppets, and dancers.

Alan Gilbert said: “ Petrushka is a ballet that truly stands on its own in the concert hall. You don’t need to see the ballet for it to be a very gratifying experience because the music is so strong. That having been said, I think knowing the story and being able to see the story acted out makes it even more powerful. It’s a very simple story.

“One of the things going on is this little puppet theater, and it comes to life and becomes a story. But, by the end, you’re not really sure what’s reality — what is really alive and what is a puppet. It becomes a very bizarre blurred ending.

“I’ve just been going through some of Doug’s ideas and it’s really amazing what he’s able to do with very economical means in telling the story and really serving the music, because that’s finally what it’s really about: having the New York Philharmonic play this music beautifully, brilliantly, but with an added dimension that will hopefully only add to the musical experience.”

The presentation of Petrushka follows Alan Gilbert conducting the Orchestra in Stravinsky’s The Fairy’s Kiss, a 1928 ballet commissioned by the Russian actress-impresario Ida Rubinstein in a musical homage to Tchaikovsky (whom Stravinsky admired). It depicts Hans Christian Andersen’s tale “The Ice Maiden,” in which a fairy kisses an infant, parts him from his mother, and later, on his wedding day, carries him off to the Land of Eternal Dwelling. More details will be announced.

Alan Gilbert To Conduct the Second CONTACT! Program

CONTACT!, the Philharmonic’s new-music series, began in the 2009–10 season, and this season offers two World Premieres, three U.S. Premieres, and two New York Premieres combined into two programs, one all-American, the other featuring the music of Europe-based composers. The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse takes on an advisory role for the series.

Alan Gilbert said: “Chris Rouse will be helping out and curating the CONTACT! series. This is fun for me because he comes with a circle of composers and a group of musicians that are fresh and new to me and it will create a different atmosphere and energy around the selection of pieces that we play.”

Each of the two CONTACT! programs will be performed twice — once at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and once at Peter Norton Symphony Space. Alan Gilbert will conduct the second program, April 5–6, 2013, which will survey music written in Europe in the past few years, along with one earlier work never previously performed in New York. The three U.S. Premieres are Gougalon (2011) by Berlin-based Korean composer Unsuk Chin; Danish composer Poul Ruders’s Oboe Concerto (1998), with Philharmonic Principal Oboe Liang Wang as soloist; and French composer Yann Robin’s Backdraft (2011). The New York Premiere will be Anders Hillborg’s Vaporized Tivoli (2010).

Alan Gilbert said: “CONTACT! will have a slightly different mood around it this season because these programs were planned with a new partner, Christopher Rouse, who comes with a different sensibility. This year’s selection isn’t about only presenting young composers, or presenting only world premieres — I feel we’ve achieved a pretty good mix in the composers we’ve selected and the balance of World, U.S., and New York premieres. There are some important composers who haven’t been heard as much as they should — for example, Unsuk Chin, whose Gougalon is on the program I am leading, is an important composer whose music hasn’t been performed as often as she deserves.”

The first CONTACT ! concerts, on December 21–22, 2012, focus on American composers and will be led by American conductor Jayce Ogren in his Philharmonic debut, and features soprano Elizabeth Futral. It will include works by three young composers and present two World Premiere–New York Philharmonic Commissions, by Andy Akiho (2012) and Jude Vaclavik (2012); one New York Premiere — Andrew Norman’s Try (2011) — and the ensemble version of Counterpoise (1994) by the late Jacob Druckman, who served as the Philharmonic’s Composer-in-Residence from 1982 to 1986. Both Andy Akiho and Andrew Norman are New Yorkers.

Alan Gilbert said: “Jayce Ogren is a conductor who is familiar to New York audiences because of his really impressive and hugely successful conducting of Bernstein’s A Quiet Place at the New York City Opera. I got to know him when he was studying in Stockholm, and he spent a lot of time around the orchestra and apprenticed with me there. I am not surprised that he has turned out to be a very important young conductor who is very experienced in new music.”

Alan Gilbert To Conduct BACH’s Mass in B minor Part of The Bach Variations: A Philharmonic Festival A Collaboration with 92nd Street Y

In the spring of 2013 the New York Philharmonic will present The Bach Variations: A Philharmonic Festival. Four orchestral programs, spanning March 6–April 6, 2013, will be led by different conductors — Masaaki Suzuki, Alan Gilbert, Bernard Labadie, and András Schiff — each bringing a different perspective to the composer’s work. As part of the festival, Alan Gilbert will lead Bach’s Mass in B minor, March 13–16, 2013, with soprano Dorothea Röschmann, mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, tenor Steve Davislim, and bass-baritone Eric Owens, with the New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director. Assembled in its present form just before Bach’s death, the 1749 work is considered by many to be one of the composer’s greatest, and one of the late-Baroque era’s monumental pieces.

Alan Gilbert said: “The Mass in B minor is a consummate masterpiece that makes me feel humble as a musician when I hear it. Bach took a liturgical, religious starting point and made it even more universal. No matter what you believe, no matter your religious credo, or whether or not you even have a religious credo, it is impossible not to be incredibly moved by this music because it speaks from one human directly into the heart of another. This is the kind of piece that orchestras should be playing. I feel very privileged to be able to touch this music.”

The New York Philharmonic has presented selected movements from the Mass in B minor five times in the past (in 1917, 1918, 1927, 1935, and 2011), and has presented the entire work on only four occasions: in 1965, conducted by William Steinberg; 1982, with Erich Leinsdorf conducting his own arrangement; 1989, with Helmuth Rilling; and in 1996, with Kurt Masur.

Also in 2012–13, 92nd Street Y presents Bach Through the Season, which includes performances by some of the artists featured at the Philharmonic as well a symposium titled “Interpreting Bach,” with Alan Gilbert, conductor Masaaki Suzuki, and violinist Jennifer Koh, moderated by Hanna Gaifman, March 3, 2013.

EUROPE / SPRING 2013 MAGNUS LINDBERG’S KRAFT at VOLKSWAGEN TRANSPARENT FACTORY in DRESDEN Tour Highlights: Rouse Premiere, 100th Anniversary of Vienna’s Konzerthaus, Istanbul, Zurich, with Soloists Emanuel Ax and Joshua Bell

In May 2013 Alan Gilbert will lead the Orchestra in concerts throughout Europe, including a performance of Magnus Lindberg’s groundbreaking Kraft at the Volkswagen Transparent Factory in Dresden. The Philharmonic and Alan Gilbert performed the New York premiere of its former Composer-in-Residence’s raucous work — which involves unusual percussive instruments scavenged from local junkyards — in October 2010, and The New York Times called it, “lurching, intricate and sonically wondrous” and “fascinating to hear and fun to watch.” One of Magnus Lindberg’s landmark compositions, Kraft was written when he was involved in the new-music scene in Berlin and was influenced by postpunk and nontonal pop. As part of the performance in Dresden, percussive instruments will be found at local scrapyards and used in the concert.

Alan Gilbert said: “Because Kraft is at times raucous and industrial, and about building and construction, it will fit perfectly in this unique environment. We had a great time performing it in my second season, indoors at Avery Fisher Hall, and found some amazing pieces in a local junkyard that made some excellent sounds. I can’t wait to see what Magnus and our percussionists dig up in the junkyards of Dresden for this concert!”

The Philharmonic will take Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse’s new work on tour after giving its world premiere on concerts at Avery Fisher Hall on April 17–20, 2013. The tour will also include the Philharmonic’s first appearance in Istanbul in 18 years, performances celebrating the 100th anniversary of Vienna’s Konzerthaus, and a concert in Zurich. Artist-in- Residence Emanuel Ax and violinist Joshua Bell will join the Philharmonic as soloists. Further details about the tour will be announced at a later date.

REGIONAL CONCERTS

Alan Gilbert and the Orchestra will return to Long Island University’s Tilles Center for the Performing Arts in Brookville, New York, on June 7, 2013, performing Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with Lisa Batiashvili as soloist, followed by Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, Pathétique. Philharmonic Assistant Conductor will lead the Prelude to Musorgsky’s Khovanshchina on the concert.

The Philharmonic continues its long-standing tradition of appearing at Carnegie Hall on April 26, 2013. The program will include the World Premiere–New York Philharmonic Co- Commission with Carnegie Hall of a song cycle by Anders Hillborg, featuring soprano Renée Fleming (as part of her Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall) Respighi’s Fountains of Rome, and Ravel’s orchestration of Musorgky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Alan Gilbert will lead the New York Philharmonic in the Orchestra’s Free Annual Memorial Day Concert , a tradition spanning more than 20 years, at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine on Monday, May 27, 2013.

CHAMBER MUSIC WITH THE PHILHARMONIC

Alan Gilbert will pick up his violin to join Philharmonic musicians and violinist Lisa Batiashvili for the Saturday Matinee Concert on June 8, 2013. They will open the performance with Brahms’s String Quintet in G major, from 1890, written while the composer was summering in the Austrian Alps.

Alan Gilbert said: “I really enjoy sitting down and playing chamber music with the musicians of the New York Philharmonic. It’s an exciting and inspiring experience for me, and it’s also a way for me to make a different kind of connection with them.”

2012–13 SEASON INSTRUMENTALISTS AND VOCALISTS

Instrumentalists with Alan Gilbert: Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes opens the 2012–13 subscription season September 19–22, 2012, with performances of György Kurtág’s ... quasi una fantasia ... and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Itzhak Perlman joins Mr. Gilbert for the Philharmonic’s Opening Gala on September 27, 2012, with Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. On September 28–29 and October 2, 2012, pianist Daniil Trifonov makes his Philharmonic debut performing Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Emanuel Ax, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, will perform on three subscription programs during the 2012–13 season: on October 4–6, 2012, he will play J.S. Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in D minor and Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto; on April 24–25 and 27, 2013, he will perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25; and on June 20–22, 2013, he will play Seeing for Piano and Orchestra by The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse. Mr. Ax will also join the Philharmonic on its EUROPE / SPRING 2013 tour. He collaborates on chamber works with Philharmonic musicians twice: Schoenberg’s arrangement of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in a co-presentation with Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, which also features soprano Tamara Mumford and tenor Russell Thomas, on November 4, 2012; and Brahms’s Piano Quintet on November 24, 2012. Violinist Nikolaj Znaider will perform Nielsen’s Violin Concerto as part of The Nielsen Project, October 10–13, 2012; violinist Gil Shaham will perform Barber’s Violin Concerto on November 29–December 1, 2012; pianist Rudolf Buchbinder plays Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 on February 14–16, 2013; cellist Jan Vogler performs Bloch’s Schelomo, February 21–22, 2013; violinist Joshua Bell will perform Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato’s “Symposium”), April 17–20, 2013; and violinist Lisa Batiashvili returns for Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 on June 6, 8, and 11, 2013, which she will also perform with the Philharmonic on June 7, 2013, at Long Island University’s Tilles Center for the Performing Arts; she also joins Philharmonic musicians and Alan Gilbert for Brahms’s String Quintet in G major on the Saturday Matinee concert, June 8, 2013. Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra join the Philharmonic for performances of Mr. Marsalis’s Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3), May 30– June 1, 2013.

Vocalists and Vocal Ensembles with Alan Gilbert: Soprano Dorothea Röschmann , mezzo- soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, tenor Steve Davislim , and bass-baritone Eric Owens, and the New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director, will perform J. S. Bach’s Mass in B minor as part of the The Bach Variations: A Philharmonic Festival, March 13–16, 2013. Soprano Renée Fleming will appear with the Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, as part of her Perspectives series with the venue, on April 26, 2013, in the World Premiere of Anders Hillborg’s new song cycle — a Co-Commission by the New York Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall. Baritone Gerald Finley appears as The Prisoner, and soprano Patricia Racette will make her Philharmonic debut as The Mother in Dallapiccola’s Il Prigioniero , June 6, 8, and 11, 2013.

Philharmonic Musicians in Solo Roles with Alan Gilbert: Two Philharmonic Principals will be soloists with the Orchestra: Principal Flute Robert Langevin will play Nielsen’s Flute Concerto on October 10 and 12, 2012; this concerto will be recorded for release on Dacapo records as part of The Nielsen Project. Principal Oboe Liang Wang will be the soloist on CONTACT!, April 5–6, 2013.

CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING OF ALAN GILBERT’S 2012–13 SEASON

ALAN GILBERT OPENS THE SEASON: RITE OF SPRING AND LEIF OVE ANDSNES

Avery Fisher Hall

Wednesday, September 19, 2012, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, September 20, 2012, 7:30 p.m. Friday, September 21, 2012, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, September 22, 2012, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

György KURTÁG ... quasi una fantasia ... BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3 STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring

ALAN GILBERT OPENS THE SEASON: THE OPENING GALA WITH ITZHAK PERLMAN

Avery Fisher Hall

Thursday, September 27, 2012, 7:30 p.m. Live From Lincoln Center

Alan Gilbert, conductor Itzhak Perlman, violin

RESPIGHI Fountains of Rome TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto RESPIGHI Pines of Rome

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: RUSSIAN MUSIC WITH TCHAIKOVSKY PIANO COMPETITION WINNER DANIIL TRIFONOV

Avery Fisher Hall

Friday, September 28, 2012, 2:00 p.m. Saturday, September 29, 2012, 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 7:30 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Daniil Trifonov, piano*

MUSORGSKY Night on Bald Mounta in PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 3 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade

SATURDAY MATINEE CONCERT

Avery Fisher Hall

Saturday, September 29, 2012, 2:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Musicians from the New York Philharmonic

BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade

MARY AND JAMES G. WALLACH ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE EMANUEL AX PERFORMS BACH AND SCHOENBERG WITH ALAN GILBERT

Avery Fisher Hall

Thursday, October 4, 2012, 7:30 p.m. Friday, October 5, 2012, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, October 6, 2012, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Emanuel Ax, piano

J.S. BACH Keyboard Concerto in D minor SCHOENBERG Piano Concerto MOZART Symphony No. 36, Linz

*denotes New York Philharmonic debut

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: THE NIELSEN PROJECT CONTINUES WITH ROBERT LANGEVIN AND NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER

Avery Fisher Hall

Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 7:30 p.m. Friday, October 12, 2012, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Robert Langevin, flute Nikolaj Znaider, violin

NIELSEN Flute Concerto NIELSEN Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2, Little Russian

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: THE NIELSEN PROJECT CONTINUES WITH NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER

Avery Fisher Hall

Thursday, October 11, 2012, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, October 13, 2012, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Clarinet tba Nikolaj Znaider, violin

NIELSEN Clarinet Concerto NIELSEN Violin Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 2, Little Russian

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: NEW YORK PREMIERE BY STEVEN STUCKY GIL SHAHAM IN BARBER VIOLIN CONCERTO

Avery Fisher Hall

Thursday, November 29, 2012, 7:30 p.m. Friday, November 30, 2012, 2:00 p.m. Saturday, December 1, 2012, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Gil Shaham, violin

Steven STUCKY New work (New York Premiere–New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with the Los Angeles Philharmonic) BARBER Violin Concerto RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: WITH RUDOLF BUCHBINDER

Avery Fisher Hall

Thursday, February 14, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Friday, February 15, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, February 16, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Rudolf Buchbinder, piano

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, Pathétique

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: MARIE-JOSÉE KRAVIS COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE CHRISTOPHER ROUSE’S PHANTASMATA

Avery Fisher Hall

Thursday, February 21, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Friday, February 22, 2013, 11:00 a.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Jan Vogler, cello

Christopher ROUSE Phantasmata BLOCH Schelomo BRAHMS Symphony No. 1

THE BACH VARIATIONS: A PHILHARMONIC FESTIVAL SYMPOSIUM AT 92ND STREET Y

92nd Street Y 1395 Lexington Avenue

Sunday, March 3, 11:00 a.m.

“Interpreting Bach: A Symposium”

Hanna Arie-Gaifman, moderator

Panel to include Alan Gilbert, Masaaki Suzuki, and Jennifer Koh

THE BACH VARIATIONS: A PHILHARMONIC FESTIVAL MASS IN B MINOR WITH ALAN GILBERT

Avery Fisher Hall

Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 14, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 15, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, March 16, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Dorothea Röschmann, soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano Steve Davislim, tenor Eric Owens, bass-baritone New York Choral Artists, Joseph Flummerfelt, director

J.S. BACH Mass in B minor

CONTACT!, THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC NEW-MUSIC SERIES

Friday, April 5, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue

Saturday, April 6, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Peter Norton Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street

Alan Gilbert, conductor Liang Wang, oboe

Unsuk CHIN Gougalon (U.S. Premiere) Poul RUDERS Oboe Concerto (U.S. Premiere) Anders HILLBORG Vaporized Tivoli (New York Premiere) Yann ROBIN Backdraft (U.S. Premiere–New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with the Fundação Casa da Musica, Portugal)

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: THREE AMERICANS

Avery Fisher Hall

Wednesday, April 17, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 19, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, April 20, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Joshua Bell, violin Chorus tba

Christopher ROUSE New work (World Premiere–New York Philharmonic Commission) BERNSTEIN Serenade (after Plato’s “Symposium”) IVES Symphony No. 4

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: WITH ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE EMANUEL AX IN MOZART

Avery Fisher Hall

Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 27, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Emanuel Ax, piano

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25 BRUCKNER Symphony No. 3

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: WORLD PREMIERE OF ANDERS HILLBORG SONG CYCLE WITH RENÉE FLEMING AT CARNEGIE HALL

Carnegie Hall

Friday, April 26, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Renée Fleming, soprano

RESPIGHI Fountains of Rome Anders HILLBORG Songs cycle (World Premiere–New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with Carnegie Hall) MUSORGSKY/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition

EUROPE / SPRING 2013

Tour to include concerts in Istanbul, Zurich, the 100th Anniversary of Vienna’s Konzerthaus, a new work by Composer-in-Residence Christopher Rouse, and a performance of Magnus Lindberg’s Kraft at the Volkswagen Transparent Factory in Dresden, Germany; Emanuel Ax and Joshua Bell to be soloists. Additional details tba.

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: FREE ANNUAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT

The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine 112th Street and Amsterdam Avenue

Monday, May 27, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor

BRUCKNER Symphony No. 3

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: WYNTON MARSALIS’S SWING SYMPHONY AT RUSH HOUR

Avery Fisher Hall

Thursday, May 30, 2013, 6:45 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Wynton Marsalis, music director and conductor Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

Wynton MARSALIS Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3)

JUNE JOURNEY: GILBERT’S PLAYLIST THE JAZZ EFFECT

Avery Fisher Hall

Friday, May 31, 2013, 11:00 a.m. Saturday, June 1, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Case Scaglione, conductor Clarinet tba Wynton Marsalis, music director, trumpet Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

STRAVINSKY Ragtime SHOSTAKOVICH Tahiti Trot COPLAND Clarinet Concerto Wynton MARSALIS Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3)

JUNE JOURNEY: GILBERT’S PLAYLIST DALLAPICCOLA’S IL PRIGIONIERO

Avery Fisher Hall

Thursday, June 6, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 8, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 7:30 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Lisa Batiashvili, violin

Cast to include: Gerald Finley, bass-baritone (The Prisoner) Patricia Racette, soprano* (The Mother)

PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 1 DALLAPICCOLA Il Prigioniero

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS: WITH LISA BATIASHVILI AT THE TILLES CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Tilles Center for the Performing Arts C.W. Post Campus Long Island University Brookville, New York

Friday, June 7, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Joshua Weilerstein, conductor Lisa Batiashvili, violin

MUSORGSKY Prelude to Khovanshchina PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, Pathétique

*denotes New York Philharmonic debut

SATURDAY MATINEE CONCERT

Avery Fisher Hall

Saturday, June 8, 2013, 2:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor and violin Lisa Batiashvili, violin Musicians from the New York Philharmonic

BRAHMS String Quintet in G major TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, Pathétique

JUNE JOURNEY: GILBERT’S PLAYLIST A RING JOURNEY, COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE CHRISTOPHER ROUSE’S SEEING, WITH ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE EMANUEL AX

Avery Fisher Hall

Thursday, June 20, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 21, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, June 22, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Emanuel Ax, piano

Christopher ROUSE Seeing, for Piano and Orchestra WAGNER/arr. Alan Gilbert, A Ring Journey after Erich Leinsdorf

JUNE JOURNEY: GILBERT’S PLAYLIST STRAVINSKY ON STAGE: DOUG FITCH ANIMATES STRAVINSKY’S PETRUSHKA

Avery Fisher Hall

Thursday, June 27, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 28, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, June 29, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor A Production by Giants Are Small (Petrushka) Doug Fitch, director/designer Edouard Getaz, producer

STRAVINSKY The Fairy’s Kiss STRAVINSKY Petrushka

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