Ahead of "We The People," a week-long festival he curated for the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma speaks about the power of practicing gratitude, music's role in restoring the spirit, and what we can learn from Johannes Brahms.

A hopeful, catchy, summer's breeze in this month's Instant Replay.

The third stop on a tour of America's natural wonders, through the music of composer Ferde Grofé.

The second stop on a tour of America's natural wonders, through the music of composer Ferde Grofé.

Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the Boston Symphony in the passionate Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner’s "Tristan and Isolde" and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7, as well as Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with soloist Yefim Bronfman.

In the second of a three-concert series pairing music by Mozart and Tchaikovsky, Paul Lewis is the soloist Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27, part of a program led by Music Director Andris Nelsons that culminates with Tchaikovsky’s exhilarating Symphony No. 4.

BSO Artist-in-Residence Augustin Hadelich is the soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 in a program that also includes Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 3, all led by Andris Nelsons in the first of a three-concert series.

The French pianists celebrate more than a half century of recording together with a triple-disc set containing many brand new tracks.

The song, penned before American Independence by a slave trader turned abolitionist, has remained a source of comfort, inspiration and redemption.