[Read about the events that our other critics have chosen for the week ahead.]

MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA at David Geffen Hall (Aug. 2-3 and 6-7, 7:30 p.m.). Mostly Mozart’s house band offers two programs in the coming week. On Friday and Saturday, the excellent music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda, leads Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. Pierre-Laurent Aimard is the pianist, and he will also play recitals an hour before the concerts. On Tuesday and Wednesday, Joshua Bell, an audience favorite, returns as the soloist in Dvorak’s Violin Concerto, after Mozart’s Symphony No. 38 and Kodaly’s “Dances of Galanta.” Louis Langrée conducts.

212-721-6500, lincolncenter.org/mostly-mozart-festival

NATIONAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA at Carnegie Hall (Aug. 3, 8 p.m.). Some of the best young orchestral players in America perform their annual Carnegie concert before heading on tour, this year with Antonio Pappano on the rostrum. He leads Strauss’s “Eine Alpensinfonie” and Berlioz’s “Les nuits d’été,” with the mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard.

212-247-7800, carnegiehall.org

TAKACS QUARTET at Alice Tully Hall (Aug. 5, 7:30 p.m.). What remains so satisfying about this quartet is that its members are trustworthy in any repertoire. That goes for the core classics, like the Mozart and Beethoven on this program, and the Haydn on show in the preconcert recital. And it goes, too, for the slightly less explored areas of the repertoire that they tend to venture into, such as Erno Dohnanyi’s Piano Quintet No. 1, played here with the pianist Jeremy Denk.

212-721-6500, lincolncenter.org/mostly-mozart-festival