Hear The New York Philharmonic

Not quite a historic echo but a rhyme.

David Geffen Hall, December 1 to 3.

Rafael Payare, in his Philharmonic debut, conducts the orchestra’s first performance of Shostakovich’s Twelfth, The Year 1917. The work is a portrait of Russian tumult and violence that’s hard not to hear as a comment on 2022. Pianist Emanuel Ax softens the tone with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2.