Sibelius, Shostakovich, Salonen

Tune in Wednesday at 9 pm to hear Alan Gilbert conduct the New York Philharmonic in a program of 20th- and 21st-century works. First, he'll be joined by the violin virtuoso, Leonidas Kavakos on Sibelius's Violin Concerto.

Shostakovich's Suite from The Age of Gold, a satirical take on the bourgeois tendencies of Western nations, follows. For a finale, the New York Choral Artists, led by Joseph Flummerfelt, join the philharmonic in Esa-Pekka Salonen's Karawane. In its review of the latter, The New York Times wrote, "The chorus’s hypnotic incantations have the undergirding of a glistening orchestral landscape, sometimes swaying, sometimes blooming."