On Monday, March 1 at 8:00 p.m., the Minnesota Orchestra returns to Carnegie Hall with Music Director Osmo Vänskä, in a performance of Beethoven’s Große Fuge, Op. 133 (arr. Michael Steinberg) and Sibelius’s choral masterwork Kullervo, Op. 7, featuring soprano Päivi Nisula, baritone Hannu Niemelä, and the YL Male Voice Choir led by Chorus Master Matti Hyökki.

Vocalist Max Raabe and his Palast Orchester—whose last performance at Carnegie Hall was a highlight of the 2007 Berlin in Lights festival—return on Thursday, March 4 at 8:00 p.m. for an evening of German cabaret from the Weimar Republic era.

Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton is joined by pianist Kathleen Kelly for an evening of song presented in partnership with the Marilyn Horne Foundation on Friday, March 5 at 7:30 p.m., and performs songs by Purcell, Mahler, Satie, Schoenberg, Bolcom, Rachmaninoff, William Croft, and Libby Larsen.

Music Director Valery Gergiev conducts the Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theater in a concert performance of Berlioz’s epic opera Les Troyens, spread over two nights on Tuesday, March 9 at 8:00 p.m. (Part I: The Siege of Troy) and Wednesday, March 10 at 8:00 p.m. (Part II: The Trojans at Carthage). Featured soloists include soprano Oksana Shilova; mezzo-sopranos Ekaterina Gubanova, Elena Vitman, Ekaterina Semenchuk, and Zlata Bulycheva; tenors Sergei Semishkur, Daniil Shtoda, Sergei Skorokhodov, Dmitry Voropaev; baritone Alexei Markov; and basses Nikolai Kamensky, Timur Abdikeyev, and Yuri Vorobiev.

The trailblazing Kronos Quartet continues its Perspectives series in March with a series of eclectic concerts collaborating with artists from around the globe:

• On Thursday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m., Kronos and composer Terry Riley mark 30 years of prolific collaboration, and celebrate with an all-Terry Riley program including the world premiere of Another Secret eQuation featuring the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, led by Artistic Director Francisco J. Núñez.
  
  
• Kronos performs a concert entitled Playing with Toys & Technology on Friday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m., joined by toy piano virtuoso Margaret Leng Tan and Portuguese instrument builder Victor Gama for a program featuring the world premieres of Gama’s Rio Cunene and J. G. Thirlwell’s Eremikophobia, a work inspired by environmental acoustic phenomena.
  
  
• On Saturday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m., Finnish kantele player Ritva Koistinen, the duo Hurdy-Gurdy (Stefan Brisland-Ferner and Totte Mattson), Finnish accordion sampler duo Kimmo Pohjonen and Samuli Kosminen, and Inuit throat-singer Tanya Tagaq join the Quartet for an evening of exploration of music of the Arctic Circle in a program entitled Tundra Songs.
  
  
• In Music Without Borders, on Sunday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m., Kronos Quartet travels from the shamanistic performance of Korean artist Dohee Lee to the varied landscapes and textures created by Afghan rubâb master Homayoun Sakhi, and to Alim and Fargana Qasimov’s ecstatic spiritual expression of mugam from Azerbaijan.
  
  
• Kronos Quartet wraps up its Perspectives series leading a Professional Training Workshop for young musicians, beginning with a public master class on Wednesday, March 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Weill Recital Hall, and culminating in a Young Artists Concert by the workshop’s participants in Zankel Hall on Sunday, March 21 at 7:30 p.m. Repertoire to be explored includes Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera and Terry Riley’s The Cusp of Magic (with guest faculty member, pipa player Wu Man), plus Michael Gordon’s Potassium and Riley’s Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector.

Ensemble ACJW; featuring musicians of The Academy—a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education; return to The Juilliard School for their third Paul Hall performance this season, offering Hugo Wolf’s Italian Serenade, Oskar Böhme’s Sextet in E-flat Minor, and Schubert’s Octet in F Major on Thursday, March 11 at 8:00 p.m.

On Friday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m., cellist Andreas Brantelid makes his New York recital debut with pianist Bengt Forsberg in a recital featuring works by Schubert, Fauré, Debussy, and Prokofiev.

Music Director Steven Reineke conducts The New York Pops in a celebration of Celtic music just in time for St. Patrick’s Day on Friday, March 12 at 8:00 p.m. in a concert featuring soprano Méav, tenor Ronan Tynan, violinist Liz Knowles, and Uilleann pipe player Kieran O'Hare.

Artemis Quartet performs an all-Beethoven program on Monday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m. including the String Quartet in G Major, No. 2; String Quartet in F Minor "Serioso;" and String Quartet in A Minor.

Pianist Emanuel Ax concludes his recital series in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s and Schumann’s birth, performing with soprano Dawn Upshaw on Wednesday, March 17 at 8:00 p.m. Ms. Upshaw and Mr. Ax will perform songs by Chopin and Schumann, as well as the US premiere of a new work by Osvaldo Golijov—co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the occasion—for soprano, piano, and hyper-accordion with guest hyper-accordion player Michael Ward-Bergman.

On Friday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m., the London Haydn Quartet performs an all-Haydn concert including the String Quartet in A Major, No. 6; String Quartet in C Major No. 2; and String Quartet in F Major, No. 2.

Violinist Anthony Marwood, cellist Steven Isserlis, and pianist Thomas Adès perform works by Janácek, Poulenc, and Ravel on Friday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m., and Mr. Isserlis and Mr. Adès perform the US premiere of Mr. Adès’s duo for piano and cello, Lieux retrouvés, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall.

On Saturday, March 20 at 7:30 p.m., baritone Gerald Finley and pianist Julius Drake perform a recital of songs by Schumann, Grieg, and Ravel.

On Sunday, March 21 at 2:00 p.m., conductor and pianist Christian Zacharias leads the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in a C.P.E. Bach’s Symphony in E-flat Major, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Zimmermann’s Rheinische Kirmestänze, and Schumann’s Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, "Rhenish."

Michael Feinstein—singer, pianist, and renowned interpreter of the Great American Songbook—wraps up his annual Zankel Hall series Standard Time with Michael Feinstein on Monday, March 22 at 7:30 p.m. Please note this concert replaces Mr. Feinstein’s previously announced performance, originally scheduled for Wednesday, March 10.

Carnegie Hall’s Early Music in Weill Recital Hall series continues on Tuesday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m. with a recital by violinist Monica Huggett and harpsichordist Kenneth Weiss, performing works by Heinrich Biber and J.S. Bach.

On Wednesday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m., Thomas Adès conducts Ensemble ACJW and countertenor Daniel Taylor in a program including Adès’ The Origin of the Harp and Concerto Conciso, and Brahms’s Ophelia Lieder (arr. John Woolrich) with soprano to be announced.

Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony return to Carnegie Hall for two performances in March. They are joined by violinist Christian Tetzlaff in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major on Thursday, March 25 at 8:00 p.m. on a program that also includes the New York premiere of a new work by Victor Kissine, Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales, and Liszt’s Tasso. The following evening, Friday March 26 at 8:00 p.m., the orchestra performs Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, "Resurrection," with soprano Laura Claycomb, mezzo-soprano Katarina Karnéus, and the Westminster Symphonic Choir.

The always adventurous percussion quartet So Percussion performs the world premiere of Steven Mackey’s It Is Time, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall; the New York premiere of Dan Trueman’s 120 BPM/Feedback; and Steve Reich’s Drumming Part I on Thursday, March 25 at 9:30 p.m.

Bassekou Kouyate, Mali’s most celebrated ngoni virtuoso, performs traditional and original songs with his band Ngoni ba (“the big ngoni”) on Friday, March 26 at 10:00 p.m. Kouyate’s rhythmic and melodic performances on the ngoni—an ancient West-African instrument similar to the lute—have earned him accolades worldwide and high-profile collaborations with a number of artists from Carlos Santana to U2.

On Saturday, March 27 at 1:00 p.m., the young and dynamic trio of string musicians, Time for Three, performs a Carnegie Hall Family Concert presented by The Weill Music Institute. The fun program will demonstrate the group’s unique mix of classical, jazz, gypsy, bluegrass, country, pop, and hip hop.

Composer and pianist Thomas Adès makes his Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage recital debut on Saturday, March 27 at 8:00 p.m. in a far-reaching program that includes works by Janácek, Liszt, Prokofiev, Schubert, and Beethoven, as well as the New York premiere of his own work Concert Paraphrase on Powder Her Face.

The amazing young violinist Julia Fischer plays J.S. Bach’s complete set of Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin over two nights in Zankel Hall. On Wednesday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m., Ms. Fischer performs Bach’s Solo Violin Sonatas Nos. 1–3, and the following night, Thursday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m., she performs Bach’s Solo Violin Partitas 1–3.