Next Thursday through Saturday (October 5-7), Daniel Barenboim travels to Symphony Hall to join Levine and the BSO for Arnold Schoenberg's Piano Concerto and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4; the program also includes Schoenberg's Verkl‹rte Nacht. They travel to New York to perform the same program in Carnegie Hall's Isaac Stern Auditorium on Monday, October 9.

This program is part of Levine's two-year exploration of Beethoven and Schoenberg, which concludes this season. The project also includes Deborah Voigt in Schoenberg's Erwartung and Beethoven's Ah! perfido and Christian Tetzlaff playing both composers' violin concertos, as well as concert performances of Fidelio and Moses und Aron. The cast of the latter will include John Tomlinson and Philip Langridge in the title roles, while Fidelio will star Karita Mattila and Johan Botha.

Also on Levine's schedule for the BSOs season are the world premieres of Charles Wuorinen's Eighth Symphony ("Theologoumena") and Gunther Schuller's yet-to-be named new work, both part of the orchestra's 125th-anniversary commissioning program and performances of Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust with Yvonne Naef, Paul Groves and Jos_ van Dam.

Additional season highlights include the world premiere of a commissioned new work for cello and orchestra by Kaija Saariajo, conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste with Anssi Karttunen as soloist; the world premiere of Andr_ Previn's Double Concerto for Violin and Double Bass, conducted by the composer and Anne-Sophie Mutter and Roman Patkol‹ as soloists; and John Adams's El Niê±o, conducted by David Robertson with Dawn Upshaw performing the solo part she premiered in 2000.

Also among the visiting soloists on the schedule are Anne Sofie von Otter (in Bart‹k's Duke Bluebeard's Castle), Lynn Harrell, Emanuel Ax, Martha Argerich, Yefim Bronfman, Alfred Brendel and Joshua Bell. Conductors include conductor emeritus Bernard Haitink, Colin Davis, Christoph von D‹hnanyi, Charles Dutoit, Robert Spano and David Zinman.

For more information on the Boston Symphony's 2006-07 season, visit www.bso.org.