Recorded live at Carnegie Hall, The New York Concert features Evgeny Kissin in a rare performance as a chamber musician, performing with the nine-time Grammy-winning Emerson String Quartet. The New York Times raved about the concert, calling Kissin a "dynamo" with "an unfailingly fine, even touch" and the Emersons "as melting individually, singing limpid, sinuous melodies, as they were powerful in their unified outbursts."