Fall Preview

There is hardly a great pianist in the world who has not beaten a path to the door of Carnegie Hall. But none of them—not even Vladimir Horowitz—has ever done what the Russian phenom Evgeny Kissin will accomplish this fall: give the exact same program (sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven, miniatures by Albéniz and Brahms) on two successive evenings (Nov. 3 and Nov. 6). Simon Rattle, a major change agent at the Berlin Philharmonic, hews to tradition, pacing his orchestra through the symphonies of Beethoven (Nov. 17-21). The violinist Leila Josefowicz, her career almost exclusively devoted to new music, includes Schumann’s Sonata No. 1 in A Minor for Violin and Piano, as well as works by Falla and Messiaen, in a recital that highlights more recent music by John Adams and Erkki-Sven Tüür (Nov. 10). Alan Gilbert, another gifted advocate, conducts a world première from Magnus Lindberg—one of a raft of works commissioned in celebration of Carnegie’s hundred-and-twenty-fifth anniversary—in the opening-night concert with the New York Philharmonic, with Kissin on hand as soloist in Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto (Oct. 7).