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

CRB brings you performances from the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, with host Brian McCreath, Saturdays at 8pm, with encore broadcasts on Mondays at 8pm. Find our BSO broadcast schedule and stream on-demand concerts below.

Hear and read a preview of 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 More on the BSO and Tanglewood
Upcoming Broadcast Schedule
  • Herbert Blomstedt wears a striped button shirt and a red sweater. He has white hair and frameless glasses. He stands outside and looks at the camera, smiling softly.
    Blomstedt Conducts the BSO
    Saturday, December 13th, 2025 at 8:00pm, in an encore broadcast, Herbert Blomstedt, one of the masters of conducting for over seven decades, leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in symphonies by Schubert and Brahms.
  • Isabelle Faust has short blonde hair and hazel eyes. She holds her violin up close to her face and smizes at the camera. Alan Gilbert wears a blue pinstripe blazer, a black shirt, and round glasses. He has salt and pepper hair and a beard. He smiles softly at the camera.
    Isabelle Faust and Alan Gilbert join the BSO for Haydn and Stravinsky
    Saturday, December 20th, 2025 at 8:00pm, in an encore broadcast, violinist Isabelle Faust is the soloist in Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto and Alan Gilbert conducts two Haydn Symphonies.
  • Eun Sun Kim leans against a white wall in a black suit jacket. She has long, dark brown hair and brown eyes. She looks at the camera and smiles softly. Inon Barnatan poses in front of a bright yellow wall. He wears a leather jacket and has hazel eyes. He leans forward and looks at the camera, smiling softly.
    Rachmaninoff and Bartók with Eun Sun Kim and Inon Barnatan
    Saturday, December 27th, 2025 at 8:00pm, in an encore broadcast, star pianist Inon Barnatan returns to Symphony Hall to take on one of Bartók’s final works, and Eun Sun Kim makes her BSO debut.
  • A view from the orchestra, looking over a sea of sheet music and stands. Andris Nelsons stands on a podium with his arms in the air. Behind him, a see of audience members and the vastness of Symphony Hall.
    Nelsons, the BSO, and Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand”
    Saturday, January 3rd, 2026 at 8:00pm, in an encore broadcast, The Boston Symphony Orchestra, a collection of stellar soloists, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus joined by the Boys of the St. Paul’s Choir School perform Mahler’s spiritually optimistic Eighth Symphony.
  • Samantha Hankey, Jennifer Holloway, and Anne Sofie von Otter all smile at the camera.
    Samuel Barber’s “Vanessa,” with the BSO
    Saturday, January 10th, 2026 at 8:00pm, Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra launch a multi-concert exploration of American music with Barber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera “Vanessa,” in collaboration with Boston Lyric Opera.
  • Pianist Seong-Jin Cho
    Seong-Jin Cho, the BSO, and Tchaikovsky
    Saturday, January 17th, 2026 at 8:00pm, pianist Seong-Jin Cho returns to Symphony Hall as the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, bookended by Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Allison Loggins-Hull’s Rhapsody on a Theme by Joni for flute and orchestra, with BSO Principal Flute Lorna McGhee.
  • Pianist Emanuel Ax and violinist Gil Shaham
    The BSO Celebrates John Williams, with Emanuel Ax and Gil Shaham
    Saturday, January 24th, 2026 at 8:00pm, the Boston Symphony Orchestra celebrates one of America’s greatest and most expansive composers with an all-John Williams program, featuring pianist Emanuel Ax performing the Boston premiere of Williams’s Piano Concerto and violinist Gil Shaham performing in TreeSong and the Theme from “Schindler’s List.
  • BSO Composer Chair Carlos Simon and BSO Conductor Thomas Wilkins
    Carlos Simon’s “Good News Mass,” with Wilkins and the BSO
    Saturday, January 31st, 2026 at 8:00pm, BSO Conductor Thomas Wilkins leads the Boston premiere of Good News Mass, a new co-commission by Composer Chair Carlos Simon, and David Lang’s poor hymnal, featuring The Crossing.
  • Anna Handler
    Anna Handler Leads the BSO in Mozart and Tchaikovsky
    Saturday, February 7th, 2026 at 8:00pm, BSO Assistant Conductor Anna Handler leads the orchestra in Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante, with Concertmaster Nathan Cole and Principal Viola Steven Ansell as soloists, as well as Gabriella Smith’s "Bioluminescence Chaconne" and Tchaikovsky's Suite from "Swan Lake."
  • Esa-Pekka Salonen sits on stage before a concert and looks off into the distance. Behind him, stage lights lend a glow to the stage.
    Esa-Pekka Salonen, the BSO and Bruckner’s “Romantic”
    Saturday, February 14th, 2026 at 8:00pm, Salonen leads the Boston Symphony in his own Horn Concerto, with soloist Stefan Dohr, a piece inspired by Bruckner’s soaring Symphony No. 4, the “Romantic” Symphony.
  • Frank Peter Zimmerman holds his violin close to him and glances to the left of frame. He wears a silky black concert shirt. He has dark hair and light blue eyes.
    Elgar’s Violin Concerto with Frank Peter Zimmermann
    Saturday, February 21st, 2026 at 8:00pm in an encore broadcast, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann perform Elgar, and Dima Slobodeniouk returns to conduct Hailstork and Stravinsky.
  • Herbert Blomstedt
    Blomstedt Conducts an All-Brahms Program with the BSO
    Saturday, March 7th, 2026 at 8:00pm, nonagenarian Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt returns to Symphony Hall to lead an All-Brahms program, including "Nänie" and "Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny)" with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and his Fourth Symphony.
  • Clockwise from left: Dima Slobodeniouk, Jack Swanson, Avery Amereau, Morris Robinson, and Erin Morley
    Mozart’s Requiem with Dima Slobodeniouk and the BSO
    Saturday, March 14th, 2026 at 8:00pm in an encore broadcast, the Boston Symphony Orchestra performs Mozart’s stunning final work with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and a collection of sensational soloists.
  • Composer Gabriela Ortiz, conductor Giancarlo Guerrero, and cellist Alban Gerhardt
    "Revolución diamantina" with The Crossing, Giancarlo Guerrero, & Alban Gerhardt
    Saturday, March 28th, 2026 at 8:00pm in an encore broadcast, Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Gabriela Ortiz’s "Revolución diamantina," and the Boston Symphony Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky's tumultuous "Francesca da Rimini."
Previous and On Demand Broadcasts
  • A display of the three artists in beiges and pinks. Benjamin Grosvenor sits outside in a dark coat, leaning forward and looking up at the camera. Ross Jamie Collins straightens the collar of his white button down and smiles, looking off to the right of frame. Na'Zir McFadden poses in front of a beige backdrop in a turtleneck and suit jacket, holding his baton. He smiles widely and looks off to the right of frame.
    The Boston Symphony and Music of Scandinavia
    Music Director Andris Nelsons shares a program with conductors Ross Jamie Collins and Na’Zir McFadden featuring works by Sibelius and Grieg, with piano soloist Benjamin Grosvenor.
  • Cellist Pablo Ferrández
    An All-Dvořák Program with Rachid, Ferrández, and the BSO
    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.
  • Violinist Joshua Bell and conductor Anna Handler
    Joshua Bell, the BSO, and de Hartmann’s Violin Concerto
    Anna Handler 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.
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.