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
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Saturday, September 20th, 2025 at 8:00pm, in an encore broadcast, Nathalie Stutzmann makes her Boston Symphony Orchestra conducting debut in a program that includes Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with soloist Veronika Eberle, Ravel’s "Alborada del gracioso," and Stravinsky’s suite from "The Firebird." -
Saturday, September 27th, 2025 at 8:00pm, the Boston Symphony Orchestra launches a brand new season with the music by Mozart and Strauss, conducted by Music Director Andris Nelsons. -
Saturday, October 4th, 2025 at 8:00pm, Andris Nelsons leads the Lorelei Ensemble and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Debussy’s Impressionist-inspired "Nocturnes," as well as Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with soprano Nikola Hillebrand. -
Saturday, October 11th, 2025 at 8:00pm, the Boston Symphony Orchestra celebrates Symphony Hall’s 125-year anniversary with Beethoven’s monumental "Missa Solemnis," the very music that was performed when the hall opened in 1900. -
Saturday, October 18th, 2025 at 8:00pm, in the first of a season of collaborations with the Boston Symphony, Hadelich is the soloist in one of the most dynamic and fascinating concertos of our time, and Andris Nelsons conducts Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. -
Saturday, October 25th, 2025 at 8:00pm, Wang joins returning conductor Domingo Hindoyan for Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto, bookended by Copland’s optimistic Third Symphony and Bernstein’s Three Dance Episodes from “On The Town.” -
Saturday, November 8th, 2025 at 8:00pm, 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 featuring soloist Midori. -
Saturday, November 15th, 2025 at 8:00pm, Dima Slobodeniouk conducts the Boston Symphony in the highly anticipated world premiere of Tania León’s "Time to Time," followed by Roberto Sierra’s Concerto for Saxophones and Orchestra featuring soloist James Carter, as well as Brahms’s lyrically pastoral Second Symphony. -
Saturday, November 22nd, 2025 at 8:00pm, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Music Director Jonathon Heyward makes his BSO debut with the rarely heard Violin Concerto by Ukrainian composer Thomas de Hartmann, with soloist Joshua Bell, and the kaleidoscopic brilliance of Mussorgsky’s "Pictures at an Exhibition." -
Saturday, November 29th, 2025 at 8:00pm, Samy Rachid leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Dvořák’s dramatic Cello Concerto featuring soloist Pablo Ferrández, as well as his Eighth Symphony, infused with the vigor and beauty of the natural world.
Previous and On Demand Broadcasts
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In an encore broadcast, Jan Lisiecki is the soloist in Mozart’s mysterious and stormy Piano Concerto No. 20, and conductor Philippe Jordan leads the BSO in Tchaikovsky’s emotionally harrowing Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique.” -
In an encore broadcast, Assistant Conductor Samy Rachid makes his BSO subscription debut conducting Berlioz’s “Waverley” Overture and two pieces for organ and orchestra, featuring Olivier Latry: Michael Gandolfi’s “Ascending Light” and Camille Saint-Saëns’s Third Symphony. -
In an encore broadcast, Zhang makes her Symphony Hall debut leading Chen Yi’s “Landscape Impression” and Mozart’s Symphony No. 39, and Jonathan Biss is the soloist in Robert Schumann’s lyrical and powerful Piano Concerto. -
Conductor Earl Lee leads the BSO in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and James Burton conducts the world premiere of Carlos Simon’s “Words and Prayers of My Fathers.” -
Kazuki Yamada, Music Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, leads a program of Holst’s iconic suite The Planets and Poulenc’s emotionally evocative Gloria with soloist Raquel González and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. -
Celebrate the joy, connection, and unforgettable moments Keith has brought to the Boston Pops and our community since 1995, with special guests including Ben Folds, Lynn Ahrens, Bernadette Peters, Time for Three, and others. -
Superstar pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins Dima Slobodeniouk in the Berkshires to perform Liszt on a program that also features two works by Sibelius and "Threnody," an homage to the Finnish composer, written by William Grant Still. -
BSO Assistant Conductor Anna Handler makes her Tanglewood and BSO debuts conducting Brahms’s Tragic Overture, Schumann’s Symphony No. 4, and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with GRAMMY-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich. -
Dima Slobodeniouk returns to Tanglewood to conduct Caroline Shaw’s "Entr’acte" and Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, featuring cello soloist Jean-Guihen Queyras in his BSO debut. The concert closes with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 and its joyful fourth movement. -
BSO Assistant Conductor Rachid leads an exciting program featuring the American premiere of Camille Pépin’s Un Monde nouveau, Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony, and Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto No. 1, with soloist Yo-Yo Ma.
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.