Antonio Pappano conducts Bruckner’s Ninth with the London Symphony Orchestra on 21 and 25 October, and on 29 October the orchestra gives the world premiere of a Hannah Kendall work. In Los Angeles, Teddy Abrams unveils a new piece written for the LA Phil, and Daniel Harding is back with Leif Ove Andsnes. In Rome, a staged Siegfried begins on 21 October and runs five hours, and Kirill Petrenko arrives in mid-November. Every listing below was checked on the venue’s own site, and if a concert is missing it is because we could not confirm it.
New York
Alice Tully Hall. Violinist Nemanja Radulović and his ensemble Double Sens in reimagined Bach and Beethoven. Tuesday 10 November, 7:30 pm. Lincoln Center calendar.
Los Angeles
Walt Disney Concert Hall. Sunday 1 November, 2:00 pm: Teddy Abrams conducts the world premiere of his own Seasons of America, an LA Phil commission, with Ray Chen as violin soloist. The programme opens with Julia Perry’s A Short Piece for Orchestra and closes with Ives’s Three Places in New England and Gershwin’s An American in Paris. Tickets.
Walt Disney Concert Hall. Friday 6 November, 8:00 pm: Daniel Harding and Leif Ove Andsnes in Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto, after Betsy Jolas’s Latest. One hour, no interval. Tickets.
London
Barbican. Wednesday 21 October, 6:30 pm: Sir Antonio Pappano introduces and conducts Bruckner’s Ninth in the hour-long “Half Six Fix”. The concert is sold out; Wildcard tickets are released in limited batches. Details.
Barbican. Sunday 25 October, 7:00 pm: Pappano and the LSO with cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason in Edmund Finnis’s Cello Concerto, then Bruckner’s Ninth. Limited tickets remain. Tickets.
Barbican. Thursday 29 October, 7:00 pm: Pappano conducts Liadov’s The Enchanted Lake, the world premiere of Hannah Kendall’s I have discovered the secret of death with mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron, and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth. Tickets.
Italy
Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia. Wagner’s Siegfried, staged, with Daniel Harding and the Santa Cecilia orchestra, directed by Vincent Huguet. Clay Hilley sings Siegfried, Michael Volle the Wanderer, Elisabet Strid Brünnhilde. Wednesday 21 October 6:00 pm, Saturday 24 October 3:00 pm, Tuesday 27 October 6:00 pm. About five hours with two intervals. The 27 October performance is broadcast live on Rai Radio 3. Details and tickets.
Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Sinopoli. “San Francesco”: the Santa Cecilia chorus under Andrea Secchi, with cellist Luigi Piovano and percussion, in music by Arensky and Gubaidulina. Wednesday 28 October, 8:00 pm. Details.
Rome, Teatro Argentina. I Solisti della Filarmonica Romana with soprano Désirée Giove and Sieva Borzak: Mahler’s Fourth in Klaus Simon’s chamber-orchestra arrangement. Thursday 5 November, 9:00 pm. Details.
Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia. Alexander Soddy conducts Dukas’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Poulenc’s Gloria with soprano Elsa Benoit, and Prokofiev’s Fifth. Thursday 5 November 7:30 pm, Friday 6 November 8:00 pm, Saturday 7 November 6:00 pm. Details.
Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia. Evgeny Kissin and András Schiff at two pianos: Mozart’s Sonata for two pianos K.448, Schumann, Smetana’s Vltava and Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances. Monday 9 November, 8:00 pm. Details.
Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia. Kirill Petrenko conducts the Santa Cecilia orchestra with tenor Benjamin Bernheim: Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler, four Strauss orchestral songs including Morgen and Cäcilie, and Schumann’s “Rhenish” Symphony. Thursday 12 November 7:30 pm, Friday 13 November 8:00 pm, Saturday 14 November 6:00 pm; tickets €28 to €65. Details.
Rome, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Santa Cecilia. The Classical Rave Party, Sunday 15 November, 8:00 pm. Conceived by Enrico Melozzi with the Orchestra Notturna Clandestina; announced guests include Niccolò Fabi, Giovanni Sollima, Alessandro Baricco and the Banda dell’Esercito Italiano. Tickets €30 to €40 on Vivaticket; Romaeuropa Festival page.
The New York Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall block automated access, so their calendars are not covered this week. We will pick them up next Monday.