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Thomas led the San Francisco Symphony from 1995 to 2020, helping to establish its reputation as a world-class orchestra. In 2021, he was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a type of brain cancer.
Mascia Sergievskaia: Kissin; Michał Zagórny: Boreyko
  • On The Bach Hour, Matthew Halls leads the Retrospect Ensemble in a work that's at once contemplative and exuberant, and Angela Hewitt plays selections from Book II of the Well-Tempered Clavier.
  • Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra welcome rising star Mao Fujita as the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, part of a program that also includes the U.S. premiere of Outi Tarkiainen’s “Day Night Day” and Sibelius’s rarely heard Symphony No. 1.
  • On WCRB In Concert with the Handel and Haydn Society, Jonathan Cohen leads the unmatched H+H Orchestra and soprano Joélle Harvey in three love songs by Handel.
What makes an opera performance great? GBH Music partnered with Boston Lyric Opera, New England Conservatory of Music, and legendary opera singers Patricia Racette, Susan Graham, and Davóne Tines to explore an extraordinary art form.
From NPR Music
  • On The Bach Hour, Alina Ibragimova is the soloist in Bach's Violin Concerto in D minor, and Christophe Coin leads the Cantata No. 85, "I Am the Good Shepherd."