A Season of Masterpieces
Conducted by Alan Gilbert

In the extraordinary 2011-2012 season, music director Alan Gilbert leads the New York Philharmonic in a feast of musical masterworks including:

Mahler's Symphony No. 2 Resurrection

Brahms's Third Symphony

Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony

• Mozart's Mass in C major
• Mahler's Symphony No. 9
• Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony
• Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
• Debussy's La Mer
• and much more

Conducted by David Zinman
March 1-20, 2012

"Exhilarating" is how Gramophone describes conductor David Zinman's approach to the masterpieces of Beethoven. Hear for yourself in this three-week festival featuring six Beethoven symphonies with Zinman and soloists Gil Shaham, Peter Serkin and Alisa Weilerstein.

Beethoven, Symphony No. 4

Beethoven, Symphony No. 1

Beethoven, Symphony No. 3, Eroica

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Pianists Lang Lang, Jean Yves Thibaudet, Yefim Bronfman, Emanuel Ax, and Garrick Ohlsson; violinists Joshua Bell, Gil Shaham, Pinchas Zukerman, Lisa Batiashvili, and Glenn Dicterow; singers Anne Sofie von Otter, and Stephanie Blythe; and many more.

On the podium, Lorin Maazel, Bernard Haitink, Christoph von Dohnányi, and Daniel Harding return for two-week residencies.

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The latest from Magnus Lindberg (The Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence), plus premieres by John Corigliano, Thomas Adés, and Marc Neikrug. CONTACT! returns to the intimate settings of Symphony Space and the Met Museum.

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The acclaimed violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann, our 2011-12 Artist-in-Residence, will perform concertos by Beethoven, Bach, Berg, and Dvořák, as well as an all-Brahms chamber recital on January 22 featuring:

• Scherzo for Violin and Piano (from FAE Sonata)
• Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano, Op. 40
• String Sextet No. 1

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