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KIRILL GERSTEIN at Zankel Hall (Feb. 20, 7:30 p.m.). Gerstein has emerged in recent years as one of our most thoughtful pianists, beyond his immense technical ability, and this recital is a perfect example of his gift for programming. Much of it is rooted in folk music, particularly pieces by Haydn, Brahms and Liszt; some is contemporary, including a handful from Gyorgy Kurtag’s “Jatekok” and an arrangement drawn from Thomas Adès’s “The Exterminating Angel”; and the whole lot is balanced by works demanding the utmost virtuosity, above all Liszt’s Sonata.

212-247-7800, carnegiehall.org

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC at David Geffen Hall (Feb. 20, 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 21-22, 8 p.m.). Jaap van Zweden conducts Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 in these subscription concerts, but the real action comes before that. As if Renée Fleming singing Björk were not enough, there are also two songs by Anders Hillborg and the premiere of “When the World as You’ve Known It Doesn’t Exist” by Ellen Reid, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music last year.

212-875-5656, nyphil.org

ORCHESTRE RÉVOLUTIONNAIRE ET ROMANTIQUE at Carnegie Hall (Feb. 19-20, 8 p.m.; through Feb. 24). John Eliot Gardiner and this ensemble released one of the more consequential recordings of the Beethoven symphonies ever made back in 1994, one that remains notable for its sleek, fast period-instrument approach. They reprise that effort over five concerts here, in the first — and likely the more interesting — of two Beethoven cycles at Carnegie this season. Wednesday’s performance puts the Symphony No. 1 in the context of works like “The Creatures of Prometheus” and excerpts from the opera “Leonore”; the other four concerts pair the remaining eight symphonies in numerical order.

212-247-7800, carnegiehall.org