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, with encore broadcasts on Mondays at 8pm.

Hear past BSO concert broadcasts on demand for one month, starting with the opening program of the 2019-2020 season.

For the full schedule of Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood concerts, visit the BSO Box Office.

Hear the BSO Concert Channel in the player above, and see the current playlist.

See a preview of the BSO's 2019-2020 season at Symphony Hall in Boston.

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BSO Encores: Nightly @8

Ingrid Fliter, Andris Nelsons, Thomas Ades, The Lorelei Ensemble, Bernard Haitink, Jean-Yves Thubaudet — Gary Houlder/IMG Artists; Marco Borggreve; Brian Voce; Courtesy of the Ensemble; Todd Rosenberg; Andrew Eccles

As our community grapples with extreme and unprecedented challenges, WCRB and the Boston Symphony Orchestra invite you to the virtual community of concerts performed at Symphony Hall, Monday through Saturday at 8pm.

Lisiecki's BSO Debut in a Concerto by Chopin

Saturday at 8pm, in an encore broadcast from 2018, Jan Lisiecki is the soloist in Chopin's First Piano Concerto, and Tugan Sokhiev leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony and Britten's Simple Symphony.

A Brahms Masterpiece, with Vadim Gluzman

April 18, 2020
8:00 PM

In a 2018 concert at Symphony Hall, Vadim Gluzman is the soloist in the Violin Concerto by Brahms, and Tugan Sokhiev conducts Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony.

Déjardin in Saint-Saëns's Lyrical Cello Treasure

Saturday, April 18, 2020
(encore broadcast Monday, April 27)
8:00 PM

BSO Principal Cellist Blaise Déjardin is the soloist in Saint-Saëns's Cello Concerto No. 1, and Andris Nelsons conducts the BSO in Bartók's groundbreaking Concerto for Orchestra and music from Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé.

Midori in Prokofiev's Dymanic First Violin Concerto

Saturday, April 25, 2020
(encore broadcast Monday, May 4)
8:00 PM

Superstar violinist Midori is the soloist in Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1, and Constantinos Carydis makes his BSO debut conducting the infectious rhythms of Kodály's Dances of Galánta and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7.