Strings – Upcoming Concerts

The Met begins the New Year with a vital new production of one of opera's most enduringly powerful works. Acclaimed English director Carrie…

Giacomo Puccini — Turandot
Giacomo Puccini / Christopher Tin — Turandot Finale (world premiere)

Unsuk Chin — "Puzzles and Games" from Alice in Wonderland (U.S. premiere of arrangement)
Felix Mendelssohn — String Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20
Texu Kim — With/out (world premiere)

Modest Mussorgsky — Pictures at an Exhibition
Richard Einhorn — Maxwell's Demon (part of 'Red Angels')
Solange Knowles — Villanelle for Times (part of 'Play Time')
Philip Glass — Glassworks ("Rubric" & "Façades"; part of 'Glass Pieces')
Philip Glass — Akhnaten (selections; part of 'Glass Pieces')

Claude Debussy — Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune ("Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun") (trans. Graeme Steele Johnson)
Charles Martin Loeffler — Octet for two clarinets, harp, string quartet, and double bass
Franz Schubert — Octet in F major for Winds and Strings, D. 803, Op. 166

Johann Sebastian Bach — Triple Concerto for Flute, Violin, and Keyboard in A minor, BWV 1044
Antonio Vivaldi — Flute Concerto No. 2 in G minor, RV 439 "La Notte"
Jacques Aubert — Selected works (concerto for solo violin & orchestra TBA)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach — Flute Concerto in D minor, H. 484.1

Jake Heggie — Before it All Goes Dark (premiere; libretto by Gene Scheer)

Antoine Forqueray — Selected works
Marin Marais — Selected works
Le Sieur de Machy — Selected works

Program includes works by Oliver Wallace, Opetaia Foa'i, Mark Mancina, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Alan Menken, George Bruns, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Christophe Beck, Robert Lopez, Hans Zimmer, and Various.

Ted Hearne — Law of Mosaics
Clyde Otis — This Bitter Earth (part of 'This Bitter Earth')
Max Richter — On the Nature of Daylight (part of 'This Bitter Earth')
Thom Willems — Just Ducky (part of 'Herman Schmerman (Pas de Deux)')
James Blake — Selected works (part of 'Love Letter (on shuffle)')

George Frideric Handel — Selected works
Jean-Philippe Rameau — Selected works
Marin Marais — Selected works
Antonio Vivaldi — Selected works
Salamone Rossi — Selected works
Johann Sebastian Bach — Selected works
André Cardinal Destouches — Selected works

Claude Debussy — Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune ("Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun") (arr. Graeme Steele Johnson)
Jean Sibelius — En Saga ("A Saga"), Op. 9 (reconstruction of original version for flute, clarinet, string quartet, & double bass)
Charles Martin Loeffler — Octet for two clarinets, harp, string quartet, and double bass (NY premiere)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique"
Kevin Puts — Marimba Concerto

Sofia Gubaidulina — Viola Concerto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Requiem in D minor, K. 626
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Ave verum corpus, K. 618

Program includes works by Zequinha de Abreu, Ary Barroso, Jacques Revaux, Levino Ferreira, Carlos Gardel, Luiz Gonzaga, Humberto Teixeira, Getúlio Cavalcanti, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Bob Thiele, George David Weiss, César Guerra-Peixe, Clóvis Pereira, Edward Elgar, Elvis Presley, Maurice Ravel, and Antonio Vivaldi.

Christoph Willibald Glück — Orfeo ed Euridice

Augusta Read Thomas — Helix Spirals
Harrison Birtwistle — Duo for Eight Strings
Sky Macklay — FastLowHighSlow
Steven Mackey — Repeated Notes

Johann Sebastian Bach — Triple Concerto for Flute, Violin, and Keyboard in A minor, BWV 1044
Antonio Vivaldi — Flute Concerto No. 2 in G minor, RV 439 "La Notte"
Jacques Aubert — Selected works (concerto for solo violin & orchestra TBA)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach — Flute Concerto in D minor, H. 484.1

Giacomo Puccini — Turandot
Giacomo Puccini / Christopher Tin — Turandot Finale (world premiere)

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