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Past BSO Broadcasts
Saturdays at 8pm
Hosted by Brian McCreath

CRB brings you performances from Symphony Hall every Saturday at 8pm.

See a list of all upcoming BSO concert broadcasts here.

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.

  • Violinist Joshua Bell and conductor Anna Handler
    Joshua Bell, the BSO, and de Hartmann’s Violin Concerto
    Anna Hander conducts 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
  • Conductor Dima Slobodeniouk and saxophonist James Carter
    Slobodeniouk Conducts Brahms, Sierra, and a World Premiere
    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.
  • Conductor Nodoka Okisawa and violinist Midori
    Okisawa’s BSO Debut and Tribute to Seiji Ozawa
    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 with soloist Midori.
  • Sir Antonio Pappano wears a dark suit and a burgundy scarf. He balances his baton between his hands, perching it horizontally between his two pointer fingers. He stares down the camera with his brown eyes, not smiling. Jean-Yves Thibaudet wears a dark suit and stands in front of an open grand piano. He looks at the camera with his light blue eyes and smiles softly.
    Pappano, Thibaudet, and the BSO
    In an encore broadcast, Jean-Yves Thibaudet brings dazzling elegance to Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and Antonio Pappano conducts two works that ask deep questions of humanity: Richard Strauss’s “Also sprach Zarathustra” and Hannah Kendall’s “O flower of fire.”
  • Domingo Hindoyan wears a black short-sleeve shirt and holds his baton, staring into the camera fiercely. Yuja Wang wears a glittering black dress against a red backdrop, tossing her head back and laughing.
    Yuja Wang, Prokofiev, and the Boston Symphony
    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.”
  • Violinist Augustin Hadelich
    John Adams’s Violin Concerto, with BSO Artist-in-Residence Augustin Hadelich
    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.
  • A view of the red carpet, leather seats, and warm lighting within Symphony Hall, from the perspective of the stage.
    The BSO Celebrates 125 Years of Symphony Hall
    Universally acknowledged as one of the world’s great concert halls, Symphony Hall’s 125-year anniversary concert features Beethoven’s monumental Missa Solemnis, the very music that was performed when the hall opened in 1900.
  • Nikola Hillebrand wears a peach-colored dress and peers down at the camera from a white ledge. She smiles warmly.
    The Heavenly Life of Mahler’s Fourth, with the BSO and Nikola Hillebrand
    Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, sung by soprano Nikola Hillebrand, as well as Debussy’s Nocturnes with Lorelei Ensemble.
  • A shot of Symphony Hall's exterior, which underscores a blue sky with soft clouds.
    The Opening of the BSO’s 2025-2026 Season!
    The Boston Symphony Orchestra launches a brand new season with the music by Mozart and Strauss, conducted by Music Director Andris Nelsons.
  • Nathalie Stutzmann wears an orange leather jacket and shimmering, multicolored earrings. She has a curly brown bob and light brown eyes. She leans forward and folds her hands around her baton. Veronika Eberle wears a checkered halter dress and dark red lipstick. Her long brown hair is pulled over one shoulder and she has blue eyes. She looks to the left of frame, holding her violin in front of her.
    Stutzmann Conducts Stravinsky and Eberle Plays Beethoven
    In an encore broadcast, conductor 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."