On Thursday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m., the acclaimed young violinist Julia Fischer concludes her two-concert traversal of J.S. Bach’s solo sonatas and partitas, performing partitas nos. 1–3. The previous evening, on Wednesday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m., Ms. Fischer performs Bach’s solo violin sonatas nos. 1–3.

Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky perform solo arias and duets from the operas of Verdi, Tchaikovsky, and Dvorák with the National Philharmonic under conductor Marco Armiliato on Thursday, April 1 at 8:00 p.m.

On Monday, April 5 at 7:30 p.m., mezzo-soprano Alice Coote and pianist Julius Drake perform a recital entitled Speak Music featuring English songs and lyrics by Edward Elgar, Roger Quilter, Charles Villiers Stanford, Dominick Argento, Liza Lehmann, Maude Valérie White, Gerald Peel, Peter Warlock, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Ivor Gurney.

Music Director James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra return on Monday, April 5 at 8:00 p.m. to make their fourth and final appearance in Carnegie Hall’s 2009–2010 season. Soprano Christine Brewer, mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko, and bass-baritone Shenyang are featured soloists for Mendelssohn’s Elijah, in a performance that also includes the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.

Concluding Carnegie Hall’s three-part Shape of Jazz series will be James Moody’s 85th Birthday Party on Wednesday, April 7 at 8:30 p.m. with celebrated jazz saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master James Moody. With a career spanning over 60 years, Moody has left an indelible imprint on jazz music, and he continues to perform regularly with his group, the James Moody Quartet as well as with the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars and the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Stars Big Band. Moody is joined by a line up of jazz greats including pianist Renee Rosnes, bassist Todd Coolman, drummer Adam Nussbaum, and special guests clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera and trumpeter Randy Brecker.

In April and May, the acclaimed Dutch composer Louis Andriessen comes to Carnegie Hall as holder of this season’s Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair. Highlights of his spring residency include:

• A program featuring the New York premiere of Andriessen’s Symphony for Open Strings as well as works by young American composers whom he has mentored on Friday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. The program includes the world premiere performances of Missy Mazzoli’s These Worlds in Us (new orchestration), Michael Fiday’s HST: In memoriam of Hunter S. Thompson, and a new work by John Korsrud. All will be performed by the American Composers Orchestra led by conductor Jeffrey Milarsky.
  
  
• A series of late-night double-bill concerts devoted to the art of improvisation and curated by Andriessen entitled Three Naughty Boys and Three Crazy Girls begins Wednesday, April 14 at 9:30 p.m. with tap dancer Maurice Chestnut (replacing previously announced Savion Glover), followed by vocalist Iva Bittová. On Friday, April 16 at 9:30 p.m., vocalist Greetje Bijma performs (accompanied by Mr. Andriessen), followed by saxophonist Evan Parker; and, on Saturday, April 17 at 9:30 p.m., the series concludes with performances by cellist Ernst Reijseger, followed by vocalist Cristina Zavalloni with pianist Andrea Rebaudengo.
  
  
• The New York premiere of Andriessen’s opera La Commedia, based on the work by Dante, in a concert version on Thursday, April 15 at 8:00 p.m., performed by the Asko | Schoenberg ensemble and conductor Reinbert de Leeuw. Other featured performers include vocalists Claron McFadden, Jeroen Willems, and Cristina Zavalloni, along with Synergy Vocals and The Brooklyn Youth Chorus under Dianne Berkun.
  
  
• A performance of Andriessen’s work Zilver on Friday, April 16 at 7:30 p.m., by Reinbert de Leeuw and Asko | Schoenberg on a program that also includes Martijn Padding’s First Harmonium Concerto and de Leeuw’s own composition Im wunderschönen Monat Mai (In the Lovely Month of May) featuring vocalist Barbara Sukowa.
  
  
• Making Music: Louis Andriessen on Saturday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m., a conversation with the composer and performances of his music by Bang on a Can All-Stars (in the New York premiere of a new work featuring video) and soprano Dawn Upshaw with The Zankel Band under conductor Alan Pierson (Dances). Also on the program is Mordants by composer Martijn Padding (a former student of Andriessen’s) performed by violinist Heleen Hulst and pianist Gerard Bouwhuis. The program is moderated by Carnegie Hall’s Director of Artistic Planning Jeremy Geffen.
  
  
• Andriessen’s seminal, 1974 breakthrough work De Staat performed by Ensemble ACJW and conductor John Adams on Monday, May 10 at 7:30 p.m. Also on the program is Stravinsky’s Concerto for Piano and Winds with soloist Jeremy Denk and Adams’s Son of Chamber Symphony.

Soprano Dorothea Röschmann performs a recital featuring songs by Schumann, Mahler, and Wolf on Monday, April 12 at 7:30 p.m. (Rescheduled from December 5, 2009.)

Pianist Yefim Bronfman returns to Carnegie Hall on Monday, April 12 at 8:00 p.m. in a solo recital including Beethoven’s Thirty-Two Variations on an Original Theme in C Minor, Widmann’s XI Humoresken, Schumann’s Faschingsschwank aus Wien, and Tchaikovsky’s Sonata in G Major.

On Tuesday, April 13 at 7:30 p.m., Ensemble ACJW performs Barber’s Summer Music, Mozart’s Piano Quartet in G Minor, Stefan Wolpe’s Piece for Trumpet and Seven Instruments, and Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite for Thirteen Instruments.

Chief Conductor Charles Dutoit and The Philadelphia Orchestra join with pianist Piotr Anderszewski to perform Szymanowski’s Symphony No. 4, “Symphonie concertante” on Tuesday, April 13 at 8:00 p.m. as part of the pianist’s three concert series featuring works by the Polish composer. Also on the program is Debussy’s La mer and Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps.

On Friday, April 16 at 8:00 p.m., Music Director Steven Reineke and The New York Pops are joined by special guests Kelli O’Hara, Paulo Szot, and Michael Slattery; The Clurman Singers, led by director Judith Clurman; and the New York Theatre Ballet, led by Artistic Director Diana Byer; in a program saluting the musical writing team of librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe.

As part of Carnegie Hall’s celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederic Chopin, pianist Maurizio Pollini performs three all-Chopin solo recitals this spring. On Sunday, April 18 at 3:00 p.m., Pollini performs Nocturnes, the 24 Preludes, Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Scherzo No. 1 in B Minor, and Twelve Etudes. On Thursday, April 29 at 8:00 p.m., he performs further Nocturnes, Mazurkas, Fantasy in F Minor, Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Polonaise in F-sharp Minor, Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, and Polonaise in A-flat Major. Mr. Pollini concludes his Chopin recital series on Sunday, May 9 at 3:00 p.m. with the composer’s Berceuse in D-flat Major, Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Polonaise-fantaisie in A-flat Major, Sonata in B Minor, and additional Nocturnes and Mazurkas.

The Takács Quartet returns to Carnegie Hall on Sunday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m. with a program featuring Schumann’s String Quartet in A Major; the New York premiere of John Psathas’ A Cool Wind, and Beethoven’s String Quartet in C Major "Razumovsky."

On Monday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m., the Kuss Quartet perform Mozart’s String Quartet in B-flat Major, “Hunt;” Berg’s Quartet; and Brahms’s String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major.

Legendary mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade performs her New York farewell recital on Thursday, April 22 at 8:00 p.m. with pianist Martin Katz.

Sixteen-year-old piano virtuoso and Alfred Brendel protégé Kit Armstrong performs in recital on Friday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m. with a program featuring his own composition entitled Variations for Piano, along with works by J.S. Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Debussy, and Liszt.

Ensemble ACJW continues its ACJW Gets Extreme series at (Le) Poisson Rouge on Monday, April 26 at 7:30 p.m. Program details are to be announced.

Just Jazz: The Joyce Wein Series, presented by Carnegie Hall in partnership with George Wein, concludes on Tuesday, April 27 at 8:30 p.m. with the return to Carnegie Hall of renowned trumpet virtuoso Jon Faddis for an exciting evening that explores the musical legacy of great jazz trumpeters such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie. Faddis, who led the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band from 1992–2002, will also perform his own music on the program, entitled The Majesty of the Jazz Trumpet. (Please note the new date and time of this concert.)