The Boston Symphony Orchestra
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Upcoming Broadcasts
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In an encore broadcast, Anne-Sophie Mutter is the soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Thomas Adès’s "Air," a work inspired by Sibelius. Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Sibelius’s "Luonnotar," with soprano Golda Schultz, and in his Symphony No. 5.
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Seiji Ozawa leads the BSO in a magical ballet score for the season that expresses the innocence of childhood and the drama of transformation, sprinkled with musical delights and passion.
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In an encore broadcast, Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony and the Lorelei Ensemble in Gustav Holst’s sweeping "The Planets," and pianist Awadagin Pratt makes his BSO debut with a concerto by J.S. Bach and Jessie Montgomery’s "Rounds."
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This encore broadcast celebrates the BSO's rich recording discography, centered on Johannes Brahms's Symphony No. 2 and Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1 with Music Director Andris Nelsons, plus works by Thomas Adès and Ferruccio Busoni.
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Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Tania León's 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner and Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring," as well as Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, with soloist Seong-Jin Cho.
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In an encore broadcast, French cellist Gautier Capuçon takes center stage with the Boston Symphony for the American premiere of Thierry Escaich’s new work for cello and orchestra, and Andris Nelsons conducts Ravel’s "Alborada del gracioso" and Rachmaninoff’s romantic Symphony No. 2.
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Andris Nelsons leads the BSO and soloists in Shostakovich's explosive opera "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk," with soprano Kristine Opolais, tenors Brendan Gunnell and Peter Hoare, and bass Günther Groissböck.
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The youngest-ever winner of the Sphinx Concerto Competition is the soloist in Bruch’s spirited Violin Concerto No. 1, and Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in works by Felix Mendelssohn and Ethel Smyth.
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Karina Canellakis leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Bartók’s chilling opera "Bluebeard’s Castle," with mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill and bass-baritone Johannes Martin Kränzle.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 spectacular Sinfonietta.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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Thomas Rolfs is the soloist in Detlev Glanert’s eclectic and dramatic Trumpet Concerto, and Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony in works by Gubaidulina and Prokofiev.
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Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Berlioz's musical depiction of Shakespeare's tale of star-crossed lovers, with mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges, tenor Lawrence Brownlee, bass-baritone John Relyea, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.
Previous and On-Demand Broadcasts
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Tonight in an encore broadcast, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins the Boston Symphony for Saint-Saëns’s virtuosic "Egyptian" Concerto, and Israeli conductor Lahav Shani leads the BSO in his Symphony Hall debut with Prokofiev’s "Classical" Symphony and Rachmaninoff’s dazzling "Symphonic Dances."
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In an encore broadcast, renowned South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho is the soloist in Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, and Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony in Caroline Shaw’s meditative "Punctum" and Stravinsky’s "Petrushka."
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Banks is the soloist in Henri Tomasi’s sultry, atmospheric Saxophone Concerto, and Earl Lee conducts two works that explore the power of fate, César Franck’s Le Chasseur maudit, or "The Cursed Hunter," and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.
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Kirill Gerstein is the soloist in György Ligeti's kaleidoscopic Piano Concerto in a celebration of the Hungarian composer's centennial, and Thomas Adès leads the BSO in Stravinsky’s "Orpheus," Franz Liszt’s "Les Préludes," and Adès's own "Tevot."
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Hannu Lintu leads the BSO in Peter Lieberson’s "Drala" and Schumann’s Symphony No. 4, as well as Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto, with soloist Leonidas Kavakos.
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Performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the first time, Joana Mallwitz conducts Kodály’s "Dances of Galánta" and Schubert's Symphony No. 9, and Anna Vinnitskaya, also in her debut, is the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s beloved Piano Concerto No. 1.
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In an encore broadcast, BSO Assistant Conductor Earl Lee conducts Unsuk Chin’s powerful tribute to Beethoven, "subito con forza," and Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 2, as well as Mozart’s brooding Piano Concerto No. 20, with soloist Eric Lu in his Boston Symphony debut.
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Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with soloist Paul Lewis, as well as Hannah Kendall’s "The Spark Catchers" and James Lee III’s "Freedom’s Genuine Dawn," with narrator Thomas Warfield.
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Yo-Yo Ma is the soloist in Shostakovich’s powerfully emotional cello concertos, and Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Haydn’s Symphony No. 22, the "Philosopher," and Iman Habibi’s "Zhiân."
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Andris Nelsons begins his 10th season as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director with works by Beethoven, Richard Strauss, and Arturs Maskats, as well as Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23, with soloist Rudolf Buchbinder.