Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.

CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA at Carnegie Hall (Oct. 3, 7 p.m.; Oct. 4, 8 p.m.). With a decent claim to being the nation’s best, this ensemble opens the Carnegie season on Thursday in gala fashion. Expect the suite from Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier,” the overture to Nicolai’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and two works by Beethoven: the Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G and the Triple Concerto. Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lynn Harrell and Yefim Bronfman are the soloists. Oct. 4 brings heavier fare, with Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 preceded by Jörg Widmann’s “Trauermarsch.” Bronfman again is the soloist; Franz Welser-Möst conducts the lot.

212-247-7800, carnegiehall.org

JEREMY FILSELL at St. Thomas Church (Sept. 27, 7 p.m.). With Daniel Hyde departing for King’s College, Cambridge, Filsell, the new organist and director of music at St. Thomas, opens his tenure with this recital at the church’s grand organ. Fully a product of the English choral tradition, Filsell nonetheless specializes in French music: As well as pieces by the American composers and organists Julian Wachner, Calvin Hampton and Gerre Hancock, he performs works by Jean-Jacques Grunenwald and Marcel Dupré.

212-664-9360, saintthomaschurch.org