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The Boston Symphony Orchestra
Saturdays and Mondays at 8pm
Hosted by Brian McCreath

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.

Watch Beyond the Baton: A Conductor's Journey, a PBS profile of Thomas Wilkins, BSO Artistic Advisor for Education and Community Engagement.

Upcoming Broadcasts Previous and On-Demand Broadcasts
Upcoming Broadcasts
  • Hilary Hahn plays violin at GBH Studios.
    Hilary Hahn, the BSO, and Brahms
    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.
  • Thomas Rolfs stands against a black backdrop wearing an entirely black suit. He's bald and has blue eyes. He holds his trumpet and smiles at the camera.
    Glanert's Trumpet Concerto with Rolfs and the BSO
    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.
  • A collage of the four artists. Relyea smolders at the camera against a black background. He has brown hair that's slicked back and gray stubble, with two different colored eyes. Brownlee laughs against a white background. He has a shaved head and wears a gray suit. Nelsons smiles and looks to the right of frame, standing against a gray background in a brown leather jacket. He has brown hair, a beard, and blue eyes. Bridges smolders at the camera against a gold background. She wears a golden off-the-shoulders dress, red lipstick, and braids that are swept up into a bun.
    The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Berlioz's "Romeo et Juliette"
    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.
  • Daniil Trifonov performs the Brahms First Piano Concerto with Andris Nelsons and the BSO
    Opening Night at Tanglewood, with Trifonov and the BSO
    In an encore broadcast from the 2023 Tanglewood season, 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.
Previous and On-Demand Broadcasts
  • Seiji Ozawa
    Ozawa's Boston Symphony Legacy
    Musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra introduce their own most memorable recordings with former BSO Music Director Seiji Ozawa.
  • Randall Goosby sits on a black couch against a caramel-colored wall. He wears a white, collared quarter zip with white pants. He has a black crewcut that's faded on the sides and chocolate-brown eyes. He hold his violin with both hands by the neck and looks off camera, smiling as if he's laughing.
    Randall Goosby's Boston Symphony Debut
    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.
  • Kristine Opolais wears an ornate jumpsuit that ties at the waist. It's gold, green, and red, and the design resembles lilypads. She sits with her legs apart and her arms raised. She touches her face and looks at the camera, vogue-ing.
    Opolais Sings Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" with the BSO
    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.
  • Gautier Capuçon faces the camera with his cello in front of a cord of wood
    An American Premiere with Gautier Capuçon and the BSO
    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.
  • Pianist Seong-Jin Cho; composer Tania León
    León's "Stride" and Ravel, with Seong-Jin Cho and the BSO
    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.
  • Symphony Hall
    The Recording Legacy of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
    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.
  • Awadagin Pratt’s BSO Debut, and Holst’s “The Planets”
    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."
  • Close up view of a nutcracker doll
    The Boston Symphony and Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker"
    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.
  • Golda Schultz (left) leans on one elbow and smiles at the camera, and Anne-Sophie Mutter (right) faces right and plays her violin
    A Tribute to Sibelius, with Mutter, Schultz, and the BSO
    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.
  • Jean-Yves Thibaudet
    The Voyages of Saint-Saëns, with Thibaudet, Shani, and the BSO
    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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