New York Philharmonic

The always-exciting Michael Tilson Thomas is on the podium for this Russian triptych featuring Prokoviev's Overture in B-flat major, "American"; Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2, "Little Russian"; and the New York premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina's demanding, otherworldly violin concerto In tempus praesens. The scintillating violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, for whom the work was written, is the soloist.