Summary: Music Director Alan Gilbert and the Philharmonic return to Avery Fisher Hall from their triumphant EUROPE / WINTER 2012 tour in a reprise of their collaboration with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, who discusses the “real masterpieces” she is singing with the Orchestra — Berlioz’s song cycle Les Nuits d’été. Podcast host Mark Travis also provides a guide to the other works on the program: Steven Stucky’s Son et lumière and the Ravel orchestration of Musorgksy’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
