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The Boston Symphony Orchestra
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm

CRB brings you performances from the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, with host Brian McCreath, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 7pm. Find our BSO broadcast schedule and stream on-demand concerts below.

Hear and read previews of the 2025 summer season at Tanglewood and 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
  • Friday, July 25th, 2025 at 8:00pm, Spanish violin virtuoso María Dueñas is the soloist in Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, and Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony in works by Bach and Mahler.
  • Saturday, July 26th, 2025 at 8:00pm, Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Williams’s Piano Concerto, written for and performed by Ax, followed by the epic journey of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1.
  • Sunday, July 27th, 2025 at 7:00pm, Lang Lang is the soloist in the beautifully romantic Piano Concerto No. 2 by Saint-Saëns in a program led by Andris Nelsons that also includes Gabriela Ortiz’s exuberant "La Calaca" and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, the "Pastoral."
  • Friday, August 1st 2025 at 8:00pm, in an encore broadcast, Renée Fleming and the Boston Symphony perform a program of dynamic, graceful, and emotionally riveting works by Richard Strauss, including a suite from the opera “Der Rosenkavalier.”
  • Saturday, August 2nd, 2025 at 8:00pm, Chan makes her Tanglewood debut conducting Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 and Korngold’s virtuosic Violin Concerto, featuring acclaimed violinist Leonidas Kavakos.
  • Sunday, August 3rd, 2025 at 7:00pm, a star-studded piano quartet comprised of pianist Emanuel Ax, violinist Leonidas Kavakos, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma perform Beethoven’s Trio No. 4 in B-flat for piano, violin, and cello as well as his Leonore Overture No. 3 and Symphony No. 3 with violist Antoine Tamestit.
  • Friday, August 8th, 2025 at 8:00pm, Andrés Orozco-Estrada makes his Tanglewood debut conducting Dvořák’s much-beloved Ninth Symphony, and the inimitable Joshua Bell joins to play Lalo’s spirited Symphonie espagnole.
  • Saturday, August 9th, 2025 at 8:00pm, a cherished Tanglewood tradition, John Williams’ Film Night returns with a fabulous program of film music highlights specially curated by Pops Conductor Laureate Williams himself and featuring Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops.
  • Sunday, August 10th, 2025 at 7:00pm, BSO Assistant Conductor Rachid leads an exciting program featuring the American premiere of Camille Pépin’s Un Monde nouveau, Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony, and Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1, with soloist Yo-Yo Ma.
  • Friday, August 15th, 2025 at 8:00pm, Dima Slobodeniouk returns to Tanglewood to conduct Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte and Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, featuring cello soloist Jean-Guihen Queyras in his BSO debut. The concert closes with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 and its joyful fourth movement.
  • Saturday, August 16th, 2025 at 8:00pm, BSO Assistant Conductor Anna Handler makes her Tanglewood and BSO debuts conducting Brahms’s Tragic Overture, Schumann’s Symphony No. 4, and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with GRAMMY-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich.
  • Sunday, August 17th, 2025 at 7:00pm, superstar pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins Dima Slobodeniouk in the Berkshires to perform Liszt on a program that also features two works by Sibelius and Threnody, an homage to the Finnish composer, written by William Grant Still.
  • Friday, August 22nd, 2025 at 8:00pm, celebrate the joy, connection, and unforgettable moments Keith has brought to the Boston Pops and our community since 1995, with special guests including Ben Folds, Lynn Ahrens, Bernadette Peters, Time for Three, and others.
  • Saturday, August 23rd, 2025 at 8:00pm, Kazuki Yamada leads a program of Holst’s iconic suite The Planets and Poulenc’s emotionally evocative Gloria with soloist Raquel González and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.
  • Sunday, August 24th, 2025 at 7:00pm, conductor and 1958 TMC alumnus Zubin Mehta makes his BSO debut in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and James Burton conducts the world premiere of Carlos Simon’s “Words and Prayers of My Fathers.”
Previous and On Demand Broadcasts
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.