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The Boston Symphony Orchestra
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm

CRB brings you performances from the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, with host Brian McCreath, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 7pm. Find our BSO broadcast schedule and stream on-demand concerts below.

Hear and read previews of the 2025 summer season at Tanglewood and the 2025-2026 season at Symphony Hall.

Hear and read an interview with BSO Concertmaster Nathan Cole.

To learn more about hearing BSO concerts in person, visit the BSO Box Office.

Upcoming Broadcast Schedule
Previous and On Demand Broadcasts
  • Conductor Thomas Adés leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Jean Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, with Finnish compatriot Pekka Kuusisto, and the same composer’s Symphony No. 5.
  • At Tanglewood, Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony in two works by Debussy and the two piano concertos by Ravel, with soloist Seong-Jin Cho.
  • The Boston Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with Bill Barclay’s Concert Theatre Works, performs "Romeo and Juliet: A Theatrical Concert for Orchestra and Actors," based on the ballet by Prokofiev.
  • Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in an All-Beethoven program featuring pianist Yefim Bronfman.
  • Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony kick off the 2025 Tanglewood season in an All-Rachmaninoff program including his Third Piano Concerto, featuring soloist Daniil Trifonov.
  • In an encore broadcast, conductor Karina Canellakis returns to Tanglewood to lead the BSO and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in rhapsodic music by Brahms and Ravel, and violinist James Ehnes is the soloist in Chausson’s “Poème” and Ravel’s “Tzigane.”
  • In an encore broadcast, conductor James Gaffigan makes his Boston Symphony debut in a program that includes arias from Mozart’s “Idomeneo” and “The Marriage of Figaro” and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, with soprano Elena Villalón, as well as Anna Clyne’s “Sound and Fury."
  • In an encore broadcast, BSO Assistant Conductor Samy Rachid leads the orchestra for the first time in an all-Russian program that includes Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto, with soloist Midori, and the blazing Symphony No. 5 by Tchaikovsky.
  • In an encore broadcast from the 2023 Tanglewood season, Andris Nelsons leads the BSO and Tanglewood Festival Chorus in Beethoven's "Leonore" Overture No. 3 and Orff's "Carmina Burana," starring acclaimed soloists Reginald Mobley, Erin Morley, and Will Liverman.
  • In an encore broadcast, Jean-Yves Thibaudet is the soloist in Khachaturian’s vibrant, colorful Piano Concerto, part of a program that also includes Tania León's Pulitzer prize-winning "Stride" and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, the “Pathétique.”
More on the BSO and Tanglewood

To learn more about hearing BSO concerts in person, visit the BSO Box Office.

Hear the BSO Channel in the player above, or listen on the CRB Classical app.

Learn more about the 2024-2025 season at Symphony Hall.

Learn more about the legacy of BSO Music Director Serge Koussevitzky for the 150th anniversary of his birth.

Read an appreciation of the late Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Laureate of the BSO.

Watch Beyond the Baton: A Conductor's Journey, a PBS profile of Thomas Wilkins, BSO Artistic Advisor for Education and Community Engagement.