Tuesday afternoon's rewarding program was the second in the series.
This rewarding program also includes four seldom-heard duets from the "Clavierubung".
Yet the rewarding program, under the direction of Stephen Cleobury, consistently almost entirely of 20th-century (and 21st-century) works.
So it is curious that it is only now making its first American tour, which included a rewarding program at the Frick Collection on Sunday afternoon.
Even before the two encores (Nielsen's "Maskarade" Overture and Jacob Gade's "Jalousie"), it made for a full and mostly rewarding program.
Mr. Biss and the Elias musicians have recorded quintets by Schumann and Dvorak for the Onyx label; that they are frequent partners was certainly apparent during this rewarding program.
Completing this generous, rewarding program were a luminous account of Morton Feldman's "Why Patterns?"; a poised rendition of a Fugue in 6 Voices from Bach's "Musical Offering"; and a new revision of Mr. Kotik's String Quartet No. 1 ("Erinnerungen an Jan"), an achingly poignant memorial for Mr. Kotik's son, the rock drummer Jan Kotik, who died in 2007.
Here he returns to the Met Orchestra, which he has shaped so profoundly, in a revealing and rewarding program made up of excerpts from Wagner's "Lohengrin"; Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto, with the pianist Evgeny Kissin; and Schubert's magisterial Symphony No. 9 in C. At 3 p.m., Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, (212) 247-7800, carnegiehall.org; limited availability.
Next Sunday at Carnegie Hall, Mr. Levine conducts the Met Orchestra in what should be a revealing and rewarding program: the Prelude to Act I of Wagner's "Lohengrin"; Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto, with the pianist Evgeny Kissin, who has given some of his most penetrating performances with Mr. Levine; and Schubert's magisterial Symphony No. 9 in C.
For this rewarding program, lasting just over an hour, Mr. Wosner began with Schubert's Sonata in D (D. 850), sometimes called the "Gasteiner" because it was composed during three weeks in 1825 when Schubert was staying in Bad Gastein, an Austrian spa town.
