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In the foreground, composer Takashi Yoshimatsu, is visible from the shoulders up, facing forward and wearing a suit jacket with a patterned shirt underneath. He has a thick but neatly trimmed mustache and bearded chin. In the background is a photo of a Japanese mountain range at sunset, with a bright orange sky and silhouetted cranes flying to the right.
Photo of Yoshimatsu courtesy Naoki Hashimoto. Graphical treatment our own.
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This Just In: Takashi Yoshimatsu’s “Memo Flora"
William Peacock
Japanese composer, columnist and iconoclast Takashi Yoshimatsu evokes babbling brooks, chirping birds, and delicate beauty in this radically pastoral album featuring Sachio Fujioka and the Manchester Camerata.
Mitridate stands in a three-piece pinstripe suit in front of a wall decorated with stone busts. The wall is flooded in a wash of bright fuschia light, and there's white spray paint across the walls and the busts.
On Demand: Boston Lyric Opera's "Mitridate"
chorus and orchestra of Bach Collegium Japan on a concert stage
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The Bach Hour
The Divine Friendship of Bach's Cantata 139
Ulysses Quartet perform at an event celebrating the leadership of Tony Rudel, General Manager GBH Music on October 1, 2024 at GBH Headquarters in Brighton, Mass.
GBH Welcomes Ulysses Quartet Back for Second Year as its Quartet in Residence
GBH Music brings free live performances to public schools, homeless shelters, and the GBH Studio at the Boston Public Library 
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    The Bach Hour
    The Sun and Shield of Bach's Cantata 79
    On The Bach Hour, Ton Koopman conducts music that reflects both the inspiration and defiance of the composer's community, and the American Bach Soloists perform the Brandenburg Concerto No. 1.
  • Sir Antonio Pappano wears a dark suit and a burgundy scarf. He balances his baton between his hands, perching it horizontally between his two pointer fingers. He stares down the camera with his brown eyes, not smiling. Jean-Yves Thibaudet wears a dark suit and stands in front of an open grand piano. He looks at the camera with his light blue eyes and smiles softly.
    Pappano, Thibaudet, and the BSO
    Jean-Yves Thibaudet brings dazzling elegance to Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and Antonio Pappano conducts two works that ask deep questions of humanity: Richard Strauss’s “Also sprach Zarathustra” and Hannah Kendall’s “O flower of fire.”
  • Richards, Fowkes & Co. Opus 10 organ at First Lutheran Church, Boston
    The Bach Hour
    Bach in the Back Bay
    On The Bach Hour, Bálint Karosi performs the composer's music on a masterpiece of an organ, and Sergey Schepkin is the pianist in the Partita No. 3, both recorded in landmark spaces in Boston's Back Bay.
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The Bach Hour
  • chorus and orchestra of Bach Collegium Japan on a concert stage
    The Bach Hour
    The Divine Friendship of Bach's Cantata 139
    On The Bach Hour, Masaaki Suzuki leads music rooted in a warm and inviting divine presence, and Seiji Ozawa conducts the Boston Symphony in an extroverted orchestration of the composer's "St. Anne" Prelude and Fugue.
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Upcoming BSO Broadcasts
A collage of Thomas Wilkins, Gerald Clayton, and Renese King, all cast in purple light. Behind them is a large black and white photo of Duke Ellington, smiling softly.
  1. Wilkins, the BSO, and the Genius of Duke Ellington
  2. Lisiecki, Jordan, and Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique”
  3. Bronfman, Nelsons, and the BSO in "Prometheus, Poem of Fire"
Past BSO Broadcasts
A collage of John Storgårds and Pekka Kuusisto. Storgårds (left) stands in a teal room and leans against a wall. He wears a black suit and black shirt. He has brown hair that fades to gray and gray stubble on his face. He looks at the camera with his dark brown eyes and smiles softly. Kuusisto (right) stands in a dark pink room holding his violin. He wears an oversized black t-shirt and round, clear glasses. He has short blond hair and stands with his eyes closed, listening to whatever he's plucking on his violin. The center of the collage blends the teal and dark pink in a way that mimics the northern lights.
  1. Kuusisto Plays Nielsen with Storgårds and the BSO
  2. Pappano, Thibaudet, and the BSO
  3. Conductor Xian Zhang, the BSO, and Pianist Jonathan Biss
Upcoming "In Concert" Broadcasts
A stage with large wooden set pieces depicts a forest scene at night. Circé and Ulisse stand in the center of the stage clad in gold and crimson robes. Dancers twirl around them, and sheet music is visible at the edge of the stage where the pit orchestra plays.
  1. Love, Magic, and Fate in Desmarets's "Circé" at the Boston Early Music Festival
  2. The Boston Camerata's "Gloria! An Italian Christmas"
  3. Blue Heron's "Christmas in Medieval England"
Past "In Concert" Broadcasts
Mitridate stands in a three-piece pinstripe suit in front of a wall decorated with stone busts. The wall is flooded in a wash of bright fuschia light, and there's white spray paint across the walls and the busts.
  1. Boston Lyric Opera's "Mitridate"
  2. The Boston Symphony Chamber Players Celebrate Koussevitsky, with GBH Music
  3. "Unbridled Joy," with the Chineke! Orchestra in Boston
The Bach Hour
chorus and orchestra of Bach Collegium Japan on a concert stage
  1. The Divine Friendship of Bach's Cantata 139
  2. The Sun and Shield of Bach's Cantata 79
  3. Bach in the Back Bay
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