The Boston Symphony Orchestra
Saturdays and Mondays at 8pm
CRB brings you performances, live from Symphony Hall, with host Brian McCreath, Saturdays at 8pm, with repeat broadcasts on Mondays at 8pm.
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Learn more about the 2022-2023 season at Symphony Hall.
See a preview of the 2023 summer season at Tanglewood.
Upcoming Broadcasts
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Saturday at 8pm in an encore broadcast, Dima Slobodeniouk leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in music by Dutilleux and Debussy, as well as Ravel’s “Mother Goose,” and Leonidas Kavakos is the soloist in Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. -
In an encore broadcast, Yo-Yo Ma returns to the Boston Symphony’s summer home as the soloist in Elgar’s Cello Concerto, and Cristian Măcelaru conducts works by Debussy and Ensecu, as well as Anna Clyne’s “Masquerade.”
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In an encore broadcast, legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman is the soloist in Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto, and Dima Slobodeniouk conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Brahms’s Symphony No. 1 and Unsuk Chin’s “subito con forza.”
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Kicking off the 2023 season at Tanglewood, Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Wynton Marsalis's "Herald, Holler, and Hallelujah," Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, and pianist Daniil Trifonov joins for Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3.
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Keith Lockhart leads the Pops in a concert version of "Ragtime," with a star-studded cast including Nikki Renée Daniels, Alton Fitzgerald White, Elizabeth Stanley, and John Cariani.
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All-star violinist Hilary Hahn joins the BSO in their summer home as the soloist in Brahms's Violin Concerto, a world premiere in Iman Habibi's "Zhiân," and soprano Julia Bullock sings Jessie Montgomery's "Freedom Songs."
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In a celebration of music by George Gershwin, Michael Feinstein and Jean-Yves Thibaudet come together with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops at Tanglewood.
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Andris Nelsons leads the BSO and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in a concert version of Mozart's opera buffa classic “Così fan tutte.”
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With a star-studded cast including Reginald Mobley and Will Liverman, Andris Nelsons leads the BSO and Tanglewood Festival Chorus in Beethoven's "Leonore" Overture No. 3, and Orff's "Carmina Burana."
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At Tanglewood, Xian Zhang leads the BSO in a pastoral program including Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" and Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World."
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David Afkham conducts the BSO at Tanglewood, with Mozart and Wagner on the program, and Martin Helmchen joining as soloist.
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Thomas Wilkins leads the BSO at Tanglewood, with music by Duke Ellington, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Jeff Midkiff is the soloist in his own Mandolin Concerto "From the Blue Ridge."
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Giancarlo Guerrero conducts the BSO in Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1, and Lorelei Ensemble joins to perform Julia Wolfe's empowering celebration of women's suffrage "Her Story."
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Isabel Leonard joins Dima Slobodeniouk and the BSO in an impressionistic exploration, including works by Ravel, Messiaen, Berlioz, and Agata Zubel.
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Anna Rakitina conducts the BSO at Tanglewood in Prokofiev's Suite from "Romeo and Juliet," as well as Ellen Reid's "When the World as You've Known It Doesn't Exist," and star violinist Joshua Bell joins as soloist in Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1.
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Doug Slobodeniok leads the BSO in John Adams's "Shaker Loops," and pianist Emanuel Ax joins in Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1.
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A widely beloved tradition, "John Williams' Film Night" returns once more to the Boston Pops, with Williams and David Newman conducting Williams's iconic scores.
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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.
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Superstar violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter joins Andris Nelsons and the BSO in John Williams's Violin Concerto No. 2, with works by Strauss and Ravel also on the program.
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Susanna Mälkki guest conducts the BSO in Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, and Seong-Jin Cho is the soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9.
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Andris Nelsons leads the BSO at Tanglewood in a program of Stravinsky's "Petruska," Julia Adolphe's "Makeshift Castle," and superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma is the soloist in Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No.1.
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Andris Nelson leads the BSO at Tanglewood in a program of works by Gershwin, Saint-Saëns, and Carlos Simon, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet as soloist.
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Andris Nelsons leads the BSO at Tanglewood in Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5, and Leonidas Kavakos joins for Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.
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In addition to spirituals from Michael Tippet's "A Child of Our Time", Susanna Mälkki leads the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, with soloists Amanda Majeski, J'Nai Bridges, Stephen Costello, and Ryan Speedo Green.
Previous and On-Demand Broadcasts
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In an encore broadcast, pianist Emanuel Ax anchors a celebration of Czech composers, including Dvorák, Janácek, and Kaprálová, with Yo-Yo Ma, Leonidas Kavakos, and Antoine Tamsetit, at Tanglewood.
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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.
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In an encore broadcast, in a concert by the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Andris Nelsons leads Gustav Mahler’s meditation on grief and triumph, and soprano Christine Goerke sings a rarely heard work by Berlioz.
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In an encore broadcast, Karina Canellakis returns to the Berkshires to lead the Boston Symphony in Rachmaninoff’s “Symphonic Dances,” and Emanuel Ax is the soloist in Chopin’s dramatic Piano Concerto No. 2.
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In the final program of the 2022-2023 season, the Boston Symphony and Music Director Andris Nelsons traverse the devastating landscape of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13, Babi Yar, and Augustin Hadelich is the soloist in Britten’s deeply emotional Violin Concerto.
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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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Anne-Sophie Mutter is the soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Thomas Adès’s Air, a work inspired by Sibelius, and Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Sibelius’s Luonnotar, with soprano Golda Schultz, and Symphony No. 5.
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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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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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In an encore Boston Symphony broadcast, Philippe Jordan makes his BSO debut conducting an all-Russian program of Borodin, a suite from Prokofiev’s "Romeo and Juliet," and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with soloist Yefim Bronfman.
