Museum of Music History
British composer Martin Phipps discusses how he used an 1808 French piano that once belonged to Napoleon in the score for Ridley Scott's biopic of the one-time emperor.
Experience the magic of this season with GBH Music's Holiday Spectacular, an enchanting evening featuring some of the best musical acts in Massachusetts.
Throughout December, make WCRB your home for holiday music!
CRB Blog
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From lukewarm reception to much-loved holiday tradition, The Nutcracker continues to delight. -
What makes a great Thanksgiving experience? It’s really not the turkey or pumpkin pie. We say it’s Tafelmusik!
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Jazz scatting, cows munching, and the perfect music for dancing through the long winter nights. All in this month's Instant Replay.
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Composers have offered many notes of thanks to veterans through the years.
Together with pianist Llewellyn Sanchez–Werner, Eldbjørg Hemsing takes the audience on an extraordinary sonic journey to her homeland while exploring themes of environmentalism, climate change, and our connection to nature.
From NPR Music
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One hundred years after her birth, Maria Callas still commands attention in the world of opera, which she forever altered with her singular, searing performances.
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Florencia gives star Ailyn Pérez a rare chance to sing in Spanish. As the bilingual daughter of Mexican immigrants, she learned early on that language had the power to shape her experience and voice.
Live at GBH
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GBH Music and Boston Lyric Opera presented MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient and Grammy Award-winning musician and composer Rhiannon Giddens. -
Sam BrewerGBH Music presents a unique musical adventure where Celtic meets classical, on demand!
On Demand
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On WCRB In Concert with the Handel and Haydn Society, Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen leads the H+H Orchestra, Chorus, and a slate of spectacular soloists in a centuries-old Boston tradition.
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On The Bach Hour, the first of the composer's six-part narrative for the season expresses joy, doubt, and wonder in a concert performance led by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
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On WCRB In Concert with the Celebrity Series of Boston, Britain’s Chineke! Orchestra performs music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Florence Price, and Stewart Goodyear is the pianist in his own work, "Callaloo: A Caribbean Suite."
El Puerto Rico
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Banff Centre for Arts and CreativityGabriel Bouche Caro contemplates the implications of Puerto Rico's "neither here nor there" political status, and what options its people have for the future.
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Tony SolitroThe poetry of Julia de Burgos inspired Tony Solitro's joyous song without words
The Bach Hour
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On the Bach Hour, angels bring shepherds through the night to a scene of peaceful warmth in the second of Bach's six-part narrative for the season, in a concert performance led by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
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