“We The People,” Part 1: Yo-Yo Ma and Renaud Capuçon perform Brahms at Tanglewood

Published August 7, 2026 at 8:00 PM EDT

Violinist Renaud Capuçon and cellist Yo-Yo Ma

Friday, August 7, 2026
8:00 PM

In the first of three BSO concerts curated by Yo-Yo Ma, he and violinist Renaud Capuçon are the soloists in the Double Concerto by Brahms, part of a program led by BSO Assistant Conductor Samy Rachid that also includes an orchestral arrangement of Brahms's String Sextet No. 2 and Gabriel Fauré’s beautiful Cantique de Jean Racine, sung by Berkshire Lyric.

Samy Rachid, conductor
Renaud Capuçon, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello and host
Emanuel Ax, piano
Berkshire Lyric
Jack Brown, conductor

Gabriel FAURÉ Cantique de Jean Racine
Olivier MESSIAEN “Louange à l’immortalité de Jésus” from Quartet for the End of Time
Johannes BRAHMS (arr. ATTERBERG) String Sextet No. 2 in G, Op. 36
BRAHMS Double Concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra

Also on this broadcast, from the Tanglewood Music Center:

Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra

Bedřich SMETANA The Moldau

Hear a conversation with Yo-Yo Ma about "We The People":

Yo-Yo Ma plays his cello outside in a forest drenched in sunshine. He pulls the bow across his cello strings and smiles up at the sky.

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Ahead of "We The People," a week-long festival he curated for the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma speaks about the power of practicing gratitude, music's role in restoring the spirit, and what we can learn from Johannes Brahms.

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