NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC at David Geffen Hall (Oct. 18-19, 8 p.m.; Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m.). Unsuk Chin won the Philharmonic’s Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music in 2018, earning her $200,000 and a commission. While we wait for that, starting this weekend there’s a chance to hear “Su,” a concerto for sheng, a Chinese mouth organ, which premiered in 2009; Wu Wei is the soloist. Guesting on the podium is Susanna Malkki, who also conducts Haydn’s Symphony No. 22 and Strauss’s “Also Sprach Zarathustra.” At the end of the coming week (Oct. 24 at 7:30 p.m., through Oct. 26), Stéphane Denève takes the baton for programs that include Jennifer Higdon’s “Blue Cathedral” and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with Emanuel Ax.

212-875-5656, nyphil.org

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‘ORFEO ED EURIDICE’ at the Metropolitan Opera (Oct. 20, 3 p.m.; Oct. 24, 8 p.m.; through Nov. 10). Perhaps of all the composers whose work we overlook today, Christoph Willibald Gluck has a claim to have been the most influential. Hear why with these all too rare performances of his take on the Orpheus myth, in Mark Morris’s production from 2007. Jamie Barton sings Orfeo opposite the Euridice of Hei-Kyung Hong; Hera Hyesang Park is Amore. Mark Wigglesworth conducts.

212-362-6000, metopera.org

TAKACS QUARTET at the 92nd Street Y (Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 20, 3 p.m.). News flash from the string quartet front: Geraldine Walther, the violist for the past 14 years of this unceasingly excellent quartet, is hanging up her bow and retiring next year. And what a way for her to start saying goodbye, with this cycle of the complete quartets of Bartok, the odd-numbered ones on Friday, evens on Sunday.

212-415-5500, 92y.org