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The Boston Symphony Orchestra
Saturdays and Mondays at 8pm
Hosted by Brian McCreath

CRB brings you performances at Symphony Hall, with host Brian McCreath, on Saturdays at 8pm.

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Learn more about the 2024 summer season at Tanglewood and 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.

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

Upcoming Broadcasts Previous and On-Demand Broadcasts
Upcoming Broadcasts
Previous and On-Demand Broadcasts
  • Hilary Hahn plays violin at GBH Studios.
    Hilary Hahn, the BSO, and Brahms
    Hahn returns to Symphony Hall as the soloist in Brahms’s Violin Concerto, and Andris Nelsons conducts Mozart’s Symphony No. 33 and Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s "Archora," inspired by the primordial energy of her Icelandic homeland.
  • Yuja Wang, Andris Nelsons, and the Boston Symphony onstage at Symphony Hall during a performance of Messiaen's Turangalila-symphonie.
    Wang, Lartigau, and the BSO, in Messiaen's "Turangalîla-symphonie"
    Andris Nelsons leads the BSO, pianist Yuja Wang, and ondes Martenot player Cécile Lartigau in Olivier Messiaen's wildly kaleidoscopic expression of love, nature, and spirituality, "Turangalîla-symphonie."
  • A collage of Yefim Bronfman and Andris Nelsons. Bronfman (left) poses against a dark gray background in a navy suit and bowtie. He has dark hair hat's graying and brown eyes. He looks at the camera and smiles softly. Nelsons (right) poses against a black backgroundin a blue blazer and blue collared shirt. He has brown hair and a beard, and blue eyes. He looks camera left and smiles softly.
    Bronfman, Nelsons, and the BSO in "Prometheus, Poem of Fire"
    Music Director Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony in a dazzling program of music by Liszt, Wagner, and Anna Clyne, culminating in Scriabin's depiction of human consciousness, "Prometheus, Poem of Fire," with pianist Yefim Bronfman.
  • A collage of Domingo Hindoyan and Pablo Ferrández. Hindoyan (left) stands outside on a busy street wearing a black jacket and black v-neck. He has wavy black hair and stubble. He squints in the sun and smiles at the camera. Ferrández (right) stands against a gold background in a black turtleneck. There is a red projection on him in the shape of a cello. He looks at the camera and poses in a thinking position with his chin resting on his fingers. He has short black hair and a beard.
    The BSO Debuts of Ferrández and Hindoyan
    Venezuelan conductor Domingo Hindoyan makes his BSO debut leading the American premiere of Roberto Sierra's Symphony No. 6, and Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández makes his BSO debut in Edward Elgar’s regal and impassioned Cello Concerto.
  • Wayne Shorter forms the "ok" symbol with both of his hands and looks through his fingers like they're binoculars. He wears a dark blue shirt and has close-cut black hair.
    The Symphonic Legacy of Wayne Shorter, with the BSO
    Vocalist and bassist esperanza spalding, drummer Terri Lynn Carrington, pianist Leo Genovese, and saxophonist Dayna Stephens join the Boston Symphony in a celebration of the late jazz innovator, composer, bandleader, and saxophonist Wayne Shorter.
  • Sir Mark Elder stands against a dark gray background. He wears a navy, pinstripe suit, and he looks at the camera out of the corners of his eyes. There is an air of mystery about him. Blaise Déjardin poses with his arm around the neck of his cello wearing a concert black. He faces the camera head on and smiles.
    Fairy Tales both Magical and Fearsome with the BSO, Elder, and Déjardin
    Elder leads the BSO in Ravel's "Mother Goose" and Dvořák's "The Noonday Witch," as well as a new work by Elena Langer featuring cellist Blaise Déjardin and Janáček's spectacular Sinfonietta.
  • A collage of Georgia Jarman and Dima Slobodeniouk. Georgia (left) stands backstage with an illuminated vanity behind her. She wears a red dress and a diamond earring. She has her blonde hair tied back in a high ponytail and she wears red lipstick. She smiles, looking frame right. Slobodeniouk (right) sits in a black suit against a creme-colored wall. He has a brown beard and gray-brown hair. He stares at the camera with his brown eyes, smiling with excitement.
    "Peer Gynt" with the BSO at Symphony Hall
    Dima Slobodeniouk leads the BSO, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and soprano Georgia Jarman, with actors from Concert Theatre Works, in a dramatic production of Henrik Ibsen's epic play "Peer Gynt," with music by Edvard Grieg.
  • A collage of John Storgårds and Pekka Kuusisto. Storgårds (left) stands in a teal room and leans against a wall. He wears a black suit and black shirt. He has brown hair that fades to gray and gray stubble on his face. He looks at the camera with his dark brown eyes and smiles softly. Kuusisto (right) stands in a dark pink room holding his violin. He wears an oversized black t-shirt and round, clear glasses. He has short blond hair and stands with his eyes closed, listening to whatever he's plucking on his violin. The center of the collage blends the teal and dark pink in a way that mimics the northern lights.
    Kuusisto Plays Nielsen with Storgårds and the BSO
    In the first program of the Boston Symphony's "Music of the Midnight Sun" festival, Pekka Kuusisto is the soloist in Carl Nielsen's Violin Concerto, and John Storgårds conducts music by Sibelius and Tarkiainen.
  • Clockwise from top left: Marina Prudenskaya, Klaus Florian Vogt, Amber Wagner, Christian Gerhaher
    The Temptations and Majesty of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” from Nelsons and the BSO
    In this encore broadcast, Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and a stellar lineup of soloists in highlights from Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser.
  • A picture of Yuncham Lim mid performance. He wears a black suit and plays an opened piano with the audience behind him. He has shaggy dark brown hair that's whipping up in the air in this action shot. His eyes are closed and his mouth is slightly open. The music is moving through him.
    Rachmaninoff's Dazzling Third Piano Concerto, with Yunchan Lim and the BSO
    The youngest-ever Gold Medalist at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is the soloist in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with conductor Tugan Sokhiev and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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