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Nero looks off into the dark distance with blood dripping from his eyes.
Kathy Wittman
Now available on demand: on WCRB In Concert with BEMF, the power of love and trickery rewrite history in Reinhard Keiser's opera “Octavia: The Roman Rebellion."
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.
Aerial view of deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, with tree-covered hills over a blue lake.
How does music awaken our sense of place?
  • In a conversation with host Brian McCreath on The Bach Hour, Hahn describes the endless creative possibilities in the composer's music for solo violin and plays the Sonata No. 2.
  • Nodoka Okisawa, a protégée of former BSO Music Director Seiji Ozawa, makes her Boston Symphony Orchestra debut with Takemitsu’s “Requiem for strings,” as well as Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony and Violin Concerto with soloist Midori.
  • On WCRB In Concert with GBH Music, Norwegian violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing explores the connection between folk music and the earth, and the Boston-based Rasa String Quartet weaves Irish folk tunes into the fabric of classical tradition.
From NPR Music
  • On The Bach Hour, Rana describes the origin of her passion for Bach's music as she grew up in southern Italy, and Philippe Herreweghe conducts the Cantata No. 29, "Wir danken dir, Gott."