Jeffrey Kahane plays Beethoven’s 1st Piano Concerto while conducting the New York Philharmonic

As a pianist in his twenties, he placed fourth in the 1981 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (Andre-Michel Schub placed first). Two years later he won the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition. Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. Jeffrey Kahane conducts the group from the piano bench as he plays Beethoven’s 1st Piano Concerto. Also on the program Mozart’s 33rd Symphony and Bach’s “Double Concerto”.

Thursday January 29: The New York Philharmonic This Week (NYP #15-17)

Jeffrey Kahane, conductor

BACH: Concerto for Violin and Oboe (Sheryl Staples, violin; Liang Wang, oboe ) (Jeffrey Kahane, harpsichord)

MOZART: Symphony No. 33

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Jeffrey Kahane, piano)

[NYP fill: DEBUSSY: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (Alan Gilbert, cond.) and

RAVEL: Bolero (Alan Gilbert, cond.)]