The Boston Symphony Orchestra

Saturdays at 8pm

Hosted by Ron Della Chiesa

WCRB brings you performances from Symphony Hall with host Ron Della Chiesa every Saturday at 8pm.

For information about Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood performances and updates, visit the BSO Box Office.

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Summer at Tanglewood, from WCRB

With Boston Symphony Orchestra concerts at the Koussevitzky Music Shed cancelled for 2020, hear full BSO concerts each weekend, as well as seven mini-festivals of BSO performances, Monday through Friday nights.

A Celebration of Sibelius, with Christian Tetzlaff

Saturday at 8pm, Christian Tetzlaff joins the BSO as the guest soloist in Sibelius's mountainous Violin Concerto, and Thomas Adès conducts the Finnish composer's Symphony No. 5.

Bell and Masur, from Tanglewood

Joshua Bell and Ken-David Masur — Bill Phelps and Adam DeTour

Saturday, July 25, 2020
8:00 PM

In an encore broadcast from the 2019 Tanglewood season, the American violinist is the soloist in Dvorák’s folk-infused Violin Concerto, and Ken-David Masur leads the BSO in the Czech composer's Symphony No. 8.

A Young Superstar’s Tanglewood Debut

Saturday, August 1, 2020
8:00 PM

Pianist Jan Lisiecki is the soloist in Grieg’s dramatic Piano Concerto, and Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Copland’s majestic Third Symphony in an encore broadcast from Tanglewood.

Gerstein Stars in an All-Russian Program

Saturday, August 8, 2020
8:00 PM

In an encore broadcast from the BSO's 2018 summer season at Tanglewood, Kirill Gerstein is the soloist in Rachmaninoff's powerhouse Piano Concerto No. 2, and Ken-David Masur conducts Stravinsky's epic "The Firebird."