MUSIC

MET Orchestra Chamber Ensemble

MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2023
7:30 PM

Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
154 West 57th Street, Midtown, Manhattan

$75
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You can go decades without hearing Caplet’s Conte Fantastique Poe setting played live in New York — and here it is being done the second time this season! This performance, aside from the luxury casting of MET Orchestra members as players, boasts the luxury casting of Liev Schreiber as the narrator. The rest of the program is terrific French stuff, mostly early 20th Century (although it must be noted that you can hear Debussy’s Danse Sacrée et Danse Profane FOR FREE tonight at Music Monday), with perhaps the most terrific of all being Poulenc’s rollicking song cycle Le Bal Masqué.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Gabriel’s lost a lot of its charm when it moved to its new Central Park South location. But they can still fix a proper Martini, I’ll tell you that.