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Carnegie Hall's 2009-2010 Season
Everyone who subscribes to Carnegie Hall finds something special to cherish. For many it’s the magnificent artists who perform here. For others it’s the legacy created by the legendary figures who made history on the Carnegie Hall stage. And no one ever forgets the visceral impact of the Hall’s perfect acoustics. Most important, though, is that unique connection between you, the performer, and the Hall, an experience that can never be duplicated on recordings or on film, that can never be found in any other place. Be inspired again by extraordinary music in the world’s greatest concert hall. Only at Carnegie Hall.
Oct 21–Nov 10, 2009
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Of Special Note:
The Kronos Quartet’s five Carnegie Hall Perspectives concerts feature music from minimalist original Terry Riley, works by composers from the Arctic Circle, performances on Angolan toy instruments, collaborations with virtuosic musicians from different traditions, and contemporary Chinese works. The Kronos Quartet will also lead a Professional Training Workshop, presented by The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall.
Performances are included in the Perspectives: Kronos Quartet series.
 Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) The grand-scale music and emotion of Berlioz’s Les Troyens and Romeo and Juliet are a perfect match with Valery Gergiev, who “has the special Berliozian frenzy that so many … never manage to capture” (ClassicsToday.com). Carnegie Hall offers a rare chance to see both of these theatrical works performed in full by Gergiev, the Mariinsky Orchestra, and the Chorus of the Mariinsky Theater.
Performances are included in the International Festival of Orchestras I, International Festival of Orchestras II, and Choral Classics series.
 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) While Haydn is often considered to be a precursor to the great Mozart, he continued to compose for 11 years after Mozart’s death. Haydn’s late masterworks are presented this season in two choral concerts by the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and The Monteverdi Choir, and in a recital by fortepianist Andreas Staier. His bold and engaging oratorios The Creation and The Seasons show how much Haydn had evolved since his days composing on-demand for the nobility, developing a more deeply dramatic style of music.
Performances are included in the Weekends at Carnegie Hall, Choral Classics, and Keyboard Virtuosos III: Keynotes series.
 Piotr Anderszewski The early 20th-century Polish composer Karol Szymanowski and his rapturous, impressionistic music are long overdue for rediscovery by audiences who already enjoy Debussy, Scriabin, and Bartók. Today there is no more dedicated interpreter of the composer’s music than pianist Piotr Anderszewski, who presents some of Szymanowski’s alluring works in three concerts of orchestral music, chamber music, and piano pieces. “Anderszewski’s playing reveals the glories of Szymanowski’s piano music like no other,” raves Gramophone, one of many publications that has praised this performer-composer combination.
Performances are included in The Philadelphia Orchestra, Chamber Sessions I, and Chamber Sessions III series.
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio comprises six cantatas, each with beautiful chorales, that depict the birth of Jesus, while John Adams’s El Niño (The Child) draws on texts from both the New Testament and 20th-century Spanish poetry by Rosario Castellanos. Handel positions the nativity within the larger context of Jesus’s life in the Messiah. Experience all three of these landmark works this December and hear a joyous story told from the perspectives of three very different composers.
Performances are included in the Weekends at Carnegie Hall, Choral Classics, and Orchestra of St. Luke’s series.
The New York Times hails the Takács Quartet as “one of today’s leading quartets.” No one who loves chamber music should miss this “eloquent [and] thrilling” group (San Francisco Chronicle), which returns to Carnegie Hall with three imaginative programs, each grouping a New York premiere with a Schumann quartet and one of the “Razumovsky” quartets of Beethoven.
Performances are included in the Chamber Sessions I, Chamber Sessions II, and Chamber Sessions III series.
 Emanuel Ax Beloved New York pianist Emanuel Ax performs in three recitals celebrating the 200th birthday year of both Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann, including a solo recital (February 10), and performances with Yo-Yo Ma (January 29) and Dawn Upshaw (March 17). Each concert also features a new work co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall.
Performances are included in the Keyboard Virtuosos I, Great Artists I, and Great Singers I series.
 Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849) Chopin wrote that, while outwardly carefree, he was inwardly troubled by a combination of “anxiety, dreams, melancholy, desire for life, and in the next instant, desire for death.” Chopin’s works continue to reveal the multiple layers of the composer’s complex personality, 200 years after his birth. Carnegie Hall celebrates the bicentenary of Chopin with a number of concerts throughout the season devoted to his music with such performers as Maurizio Pollini, Emanuel Ax, Evgeny Kissin, Yo-Yo Ma, and others.
Performances are included on Opening Night as well as in the Weekends at Carnegie Hall, Great Artists I, Great Artists II, Great Singers I, Keyboard Virtuosos I, and Keyboard Virtuosos II series.
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