MUSIC

New York Philharmonic: Bronfman, Brahms, and Ligeti

THURSDAY – SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 21, 2023
7:30 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY & SATURDAY

David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$45-$147
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This is Listed for two Ligeti pieces. Rhythmically incisive, sonically expansive, Ligeti’s is some of the very best (I’m tempted to omit the “some of”) Western classical music of the second half of the 20th Century. There’s also a new piano concerto by Elena Firsova in the Post-Romantic lyrical Modernist idiom that I, for one, just don’t like; nevertheless, it’s just the kind of thing that soloist Yefim Bronfman plays splendily (as it should be: it was written for him). Let’ not leave out Brahms’s Romantic-that-thinks-it’s-Classical Serenade No. 1, which I, for one, like just fine. Or conductor David Robertson: ditto.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Martini, Oysters, Cadillac burger at P.J. Clarke’s.