From NYTimes.com:
Bargemusic (Friday through Sunday) There are choice attractions this weekend at the city’s premier floating music hall. On Friday the brilliant violinist Rolf Schulte and the pianist Ran Dank play a wide-ranging program of works by Ravel, Carter, Janacek, Ligeti, Kurtag and Schubert. Saturday brings the cellist Zuill Bailey and the pianist Doris Stevenson in Boccherini, Schubert, Chopin and Franck, and on Sunday the Fine Arts Quartet play Haydn, Saint-Saëns and a little-known quartet by the celebrated educator and violinist Efrem Zimbalist. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m., Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing next to the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, (718) 624-2083, bargemusic.org; $35, $30 for 65+, $15 for students. (Woolfe)
Crash Ensemble (Friday) Alan Pierson conducts this dynamic new-music group in works by Donnacha Dennehy (the ensemble’s co-founder), including “That the Night Come.” The program also features Mr. Dennehy’s arrangement of a traditional Irish song, as well as songs by Osvaldo Golijov, with the soprano Dawn Upshaw, a frequent collaborator of Mr. Golijov’s, as soloist. At 6 p.m., Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800, carnegiehall.org, $36 to $50. (Vivien Schweitzer)
Look and Listen Festival (Friday through Sunday) This adventurous festival offers treats for eyes and ears. Stars of the contemporary music world like the flutist Claire Chase and the Jack Quartet perform against a backdrop of art. Programs, featuring music by Kaija Saariaho, Elliott Carter, Berio, Britten, Meredith Monk and Marcos Balter, also include a multimedia creation for piano, cello and video by the pianist Michael Brown and the cellist Nick Canellakis. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 4 p.m., Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 West 14th Street, second floor, West Village, (718) 622-3005, lookandlisten.org; $15, $35 for a festival pass, $10 for students and 65+ at the door. (Schweitzer)
Philadelphia Orchestra (Friday) The dynamic conductor Simon Rattle has been intensely involved as chief conductor and artistic director of the great Berlin Philharmonic for over a decade. But he has maintained a close relationship with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He brings this storied orchestra to Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium for an intriguing program: Webern’s early Passacaglia (Op. 1); three fragments from Berg’s “Wozzeck”; Ligeti’s bleakly satirical “Mysteries of the Macabre,” featuring the soprano Barbara Hannigan; and Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony. At 8 p.m., (212) 247-7800, carnegiehall.org; limited availability. (Tommasini)
Queens New Music Festival (Friday through Sunday) Organized by the composer collective Random Access Music, this festival presents eight concerts over three days. The offerings include Friday’s concert by three quartets made up of talented youngsters from the Face the Music program. Among four concerts on Saturday are a program of reflections on Brooklyn and Queens (at 1 p.m.) and, at 8 p.m., a recital by the cellist Kate Dillingham and the pianist Amir Khosrowpour. Sunday includes a 3 p.m. concert by Duo Sonidos (the classical guitarist Adam Levin and the violinist William Knuth) of works by Hispanic composers and, at 6:30 p.m., a closing program from Mantra Percussion. Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday and Sunday at various times, Secret Theater Main Stage, 44-02 23rd Street, Long Island City, Queens, queensnewmusicfestival.org
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