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The Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm
Hosted by Brian McCreath

CRB brings you performances at Tanglewood, with host Brian McCreath, on Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 7pm. Find our Tanglewood broadcast schedule and concerts from Tanglewood on demand below. Learn more about the 2024 summer season at Tanglewood. To learn more about hearing Tanglewood 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
  • Jean Yves Thibaudet wears a black dress shirt and stands in a white spotlight. He has blondish gray hair and blue eyes, and he smiles at the camera softly.
    Thibaudet and the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood
    Saturday, July 27 at 8pm, 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.”
  • Thomas Warfield has short, curly, purple hair. He wears a blue fur coat and smiles at the camera. Paul Lewis has dark curly hair and blue eyes. He wears a dark pea coat and stares intently at the camera. Andris Nelsons has dark brown hair and a beard. He wears a navy suit and looks to the left of the camera.
    Koussevitzky’s Legacy at Tanglewood
    Sunday, July 28 at 7pm, Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in works by Copland, Stravinsky, Thompson, and James Lee III, each a reflection of Serge Koussevitzky’s original vision of the role of Tanglewood in the music world.
  • Andris Nelsons, dressed in concert black, has his baton and arms raised above the orchestra, who are all dressed in white.
    Strauss at Tanglewood, with Nelsons and the BSO
    Friday, August 2 at 8pm, the Boston Symphony and Andris Nelsons perform a program of dynamic, graceful, and emotionally riveting works by Richard Strauss, including a suite from the opera “Der Rosenkavalier.”
  • John Williams conducts the BSO at Tanglewood in front of a giant film screen, playing the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
    John Williams’ Film Night, Live from Tanglewood!
    Saturday, August 3 at 8pm, from Hollywood’s Golden Age to John Williams’s iconic scores, Film Night with the Boston Pops returns to Tanglewood with a special celebration of Henry Mancini’s 100th birthday, all led by conductors Ken-David Masur and David Newman.
  • Gerstein wears a navy suit jacket and smiles at the camera. He has a short beard and brown eyes. Bell and Isserlis both wear black shirts. Bell smiles at the camera, tossing his shaggy, brown hair back. Isserlis looks left of camera and doesn't smile. He has long, curly gray hair.
    Bell, Gerstein, and Isserlis at Tanglewood
    Sunday, August 4 at 7pm, in a Boston Symphony concert led by Alan Gilbert, violinist Joshua Bell, pianist Kirill Gerstein, and cellist Steven Isserlis are the soloists in Beethoven's Triple Concerto, part of a program that also includes the same composer’s buoyant Symphony No. 4.
  • Sunlight pours into an industrial-looking room. Between concrete walls, Kirill Gerstein sits on a wooden chair and plays an antique grand piano.
    Gerstein Plays Rachmaninoff at Tanglewood
    Friday, August 9 at 8pm, Kirill Gerstein is the soloist in Rachmaninoff’s passionate and technically daunting Piano Concerto No. 3, and Alan Gilbert leads the Boston Symphony in Stravinsky’s exhilarating - and timeless - “The Rite of Spring.”
  • Dalia Stasevska wears blue and red robes and leans her head against her head. She has long, wavy,light brown hair and brown eyes. Leila Josefowicz wears a black shirt and a gold chain, and her ear is decorated with many shiny hoops and studs. She has brown eyes and long, light brown hair that is being blown back behind her. Both musicians look at the camera and smile.
    Stasevska Conducts Sibelius & Stravinsky at Tanglewood
    Saturday, August 10 at 8pm, in her Boston Symphony debut, conductor Dalia Stasevska leads a program that includes Sibelius’s Canzonetta and Symphony No. 5, as well as Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto, with soloist Leila Josefowicz.
  • Elena Villalón wears a black dress that hangs on one shoulder. Her dark hair tumbles down that shoulder. She has a beauty mark on her cheek and she stares down the camera, softly smiling. James Gaffigan wears a white, collared shirt and wears his brown hair slicked back. He has blue eyes and a beard, and he gazes at the camera wistfully.
    Villalón, Gaffigan, and the BSO at Tanglewood
    Sunday, August 11 at 7pm, 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.”
  • Midori wears a black dress with lace sleeves. Her dark hair is slicked back into a bun, and a pearl hangs from her ear. She holds her violin across her chest, and she smiles softly at the camera.
    Midori at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Friday, August 16 at 8pm, 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.
  • Lucas (with hands folded in lap, and facing to his left) and Arthur Jussen (smiling and with right leg crossed over left) share a bench.
    The Jussens, Mendelssohn, and the BSO
    Saturday, August 17 at 8pm, in an encore broadcast, Kazuki Yamada conducts the BSO in Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique," and the Jussen brothers join as soloists for Felix Mendelssohn's Concerto in E for two pianos and orchestra.
  • Earl Lee wears concert black and stands in front of a black background. He holds his baton and smiles at the camera softly. Yo-Yo Ma wears an oxford button-down and sits in front of a black background. He holds his cello and bow in one hand, and he smiles at the camera warmly.
    Yo-Yo Ma, the BSO, and Schumann at Tanglewood
    Sunday, August 18 at 7pm, in a Boston Symphony concert live from Tanglewood, Yo-Yo Ma is the soloist in Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto, and BSO Assistant Conductor Earl Lee leads the orchestra in Carlos Simon’s “Fate Now Conquers” and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7.
  • Bruce Liu leans against a grand piano in a dark blue room. He and the piano are bathed in a red light. He wears a blazer, and he looks over right shoulder with a pensive expression. This headshot is moody, cinematic, and beautiful.
    Bruce Liu, the BSO, and Chopin at Tanglewood
    Friday, August 23 at 8pm, the winner of the 2021 International Chopin Competition, Liu makes his BSO debut as the soloist in Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in a program led by Ryan Bancroft, also in his BSO debut, that includes Elgar’s “Enigma” Variations.
  • Karina Canellakis wears concert black and stands in front of a black backdrop. Her bright blonde hair and blue eyes stand out amidst the darkness. She stands in profile and looks at the camera over her shoulder. Leonidas Kavakos wears a blue button-up and glasses. He has salt & pepper hair reaching down to his shoulders. He holds his violin around the neck and smiles at the camera.
    Canellakis, Kavakos, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Saturday, August 24 at 8pm, conductor Karina Canellakis returns to Tanglewood to lead the BSO and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in rhapsodic music by Brahms and Ravel, and violinist Leonidas Kavakos is the soloist in Chausson’s “Poème” and Ravel’s “Tzigane.”
  • A colorful collage of conductor Hannu Lintu and the four soloists.
    Beethoven’s Ninth with Lintu and the BSO
    Sunday, August 25 at 7pm, conductor Hannu Lintu leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and a cast of fabulous soloists in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and its “Ode to Joy.”
Previous and On Demand Broadcasts
  • Will Liverman wears a rust colored suit and a long black tie. Yefim Bronfman wears a black suit and bowtie. Edwin Barker wears concert black and holds the neck of his bass.
    Nelsons, the BSO, and Koussevitzky at Tanglewood
    Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Serge Koussevitzky, Andris Nelsons leads a concert that includes Koussevitzky’s Double Bass Concerto, with soloist Edwin Barker, as well as spectacular works by Steven Mackey, Sibelius, and Scriabin.
  • Emanuel Ax stands in an old brick building. Sunlight streams in through the windows, illuminating Ax's white hair and blue eyes. He wears a suit and frameless glasses, and he smiles at the camera.
    Strauss’s Cosmic Power and Beethoven’s Vigorous Introspection, with Nelsons and Ax and Tanglewood
    Now available on demand, Andris Nelsons leads the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in Richard Strauss’s "Also sprach Zarathustra" and Charles Ives’s "Three Places in New England," as well as Beethoven’s "Piano Concerto No. 3," with soloist Emanuel Ax.
  • Both artists look intently at the camera, wearing concert black. Weinius stands in a doorway framed by sunlight. Goerke is surrounded by dark stone, and she smiles at the camera wickedly.
    Wagner’s “Twilight of the Gods,” Live from Tanglewood!
    Now available on demand, Andris Nelsons leads the BSO and an all-star cast, featuring soprano Christine Goerke and tenor Michael Weinius, in the epic conclusion of Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung, Act III of Götterdämmerung.
  • Conrad Tao plays piano under the arched ceilings of the Church of the Incarnation in New York City. He sits in profile, holding one hand above the keys and looking off into the distance expectantly.
    Bernstein, with Conrad Tao and the BSO at Tanglewood
    Now available on demand, Conrad Tao is the soloist in Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2, "The Age of Anxiety", and Dima Slobodeniouk leads the BSO in the Symphony No. 3 by Brahms.
  • Augustin Hadelich sits on the sill of a large stained-glass window. He sits in all black, holding his violin and looking at the camera.
    Hadelich, Prokofiev, and the BSO at Tanglewood
    Now available on demand, Augustin Hadelich is the soloist in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 on a program including Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 and Sarah Kirkland Snider’s "Forward Into Light", a meditation on “perseverance, bravery, and alliance.”
  • Yuja Wang wears a bright yellow, sleeveless gown against a rich purple background. She lays her head and folded arms on a grand piano and stares at the camera.
    Yuja Wang and the BSO at Tanglewood
    Now available on demand, Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony in Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, starring powerhouse pianist Yuja Wang, as well as two pieces by Duke Ellington and Carlos Simon’s “Warmth from Other Suns.”
  • A sunny picture of the Shed at Tanglewood, surrounded by lush trees and a bright blue sky.
    “Apollon musagète” and “Scheherazade,” with the BSO at Tanglewood
    Now available on demand, Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony in Stravinsky’s iconic tale of the Greek god Apollo and three muses of artistic inspiration, followed by Rimsky-Korsakov’s "Scheherazade", inspired by the story of “One Thousand and One Nights.”
  • Christina and Michelle Naughton
    Twin Vivacity with the Naughtons, at Tanglewood
    In an encore broadcast, Christina and Michelle Naughton are the soloists in Poulenc’s firecracker Concerto for Two Pianos, and Earl Lee leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony and “Pulse,” by Brian Raphael Nabors.
  • Six headshots of six Broadway stars. They smile, they laugh, and they look at the camera.
    The Boston Pops at Tanglewood in Broadway Today!
    Keith Lockhart leads the Pops and a cast of Broadway superstars in selections from such Tony-winning musicals as "Hamilton," "In the Heights," "The Light in the Piazza," "Kimberly Akimbo," "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder," "The Band's Visit," and "Dear Evan Hansen."
  • Gil Shaham, in a dark suit, holding his violin, with a background of green trees
    Gil Shaham and Opening Night at Tanglewood!
    Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony kick off the 2024 Tanglewood season in an All-Beethoven program that includes the composer’s Violin Concerto, with soloist Gil Shaham, and the emotionally expansive “Eroica” Symphony.
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More on the BSO and Tanglewood

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

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 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.

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.