New York Philharmonic

Two different prorgams anchor the Phil's week, featuring two guest conductors (while Alan Gilbert is across the Lincoln Center plaza, conducting Don Giovanni). At this morning's $20 open rehearsal and tonight's regularly scheduled gig, star violinist Lisa Batiashvili heads back to Avery Fisher to play the soloist's role in Barber's Violin Concerto. Also on the bill are Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 and Christopher Rouse's powerful midlength symphonic piece, Iscariot (all conducted by David Zinman). The program repeats on the evenings of Feb 6 and 7, though Batiashvili will not appear at the Feb 7 matinee (when the Rachmaninoff piece is played alongside Dvorak's Piano Quintet, Op. 81). On Feb 11, conductor Stéphane Denève leads the orchestra in works by Fauré and Tchaikovsky, plus the New York premiere of James MacMillan's Piano Concerto No. 3 (in which Jean-Yves Thibaudet is the soloist). The program repeats on Feb 12 and 13.