The Boston Symphony Orchestra
Saturdays at 8pm
CRB brings you performances from the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, with host Brian McCreath, Saturdays at 8pm, with encore broadcasts on Mondays at 8pm. Find our BSO broadcast schedule and stream on-demand concerts below.
Hear and read a preview of the 2025-2026 season at Symphony Hall.
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To learn more about hearing BSO concerts in person, visit the BSO Box Office.
Upcoming Broadcast Schedule
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Saturday, April 4th, 2026 at 8:00pm, Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra welcome rising star Mao Fujita as the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, part of a program that also includes the U.S. premiere of Outi Tarkiainen’s “Day Night Day” and Sibelius’s rarely heard Symphony No. 1. -
Saturday, April 18th, 2026 at 8:00pm, Dutch duo-pianists Lucas and Arthur Jussen perform a BSO-commissioned piece written for them by American composer Andrew Norman, and Susanna Mälkki leads the BSO in Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances and Ravel’s Mother Goose suite. -
Saturday, April 25th, 2026 at 8:00pm, in his first appearance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2015, pianist Evgeny Kissin plays piano concertos by Scriabin and Mozart, and Andrey Boreyko conducts works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Liadov. -
Saturday, May 2nd, 2026 at 8:00pm, Dima Slobodeniouk leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood Festival Chorus in John Adams’s “Harmonium” and, with four stellar soloists, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and its “Ode to Joy.” -
Friday, July 10th, 2026 at 8:00pm, music by Tchaikovsky begins the first full weekend of Boston Symphony performances at Tanglewood, including the First Piano Concerto with soloist Seong-Jin Cho and selections from Swan Lake — all led by Andris Nelsons. -
Saturday, July 11th, 2026 at 8:00pm, Music Director Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 with soloist Emanuel Ax, as well as Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with soprano Erin Morley. -
Sunday, July 12th, 2026 at 7:00pm, in his Boston Symphony debut, conductor Fabio Luisi leads the Symphony No. 2 by Brahm and Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with soloist Eric Lu. -
Friday, July 17th, 2026 at 8:00pm, soprano Renée Fleming and baritone Thomas Hampson sing selections from John Adams’s opera “Nixon in China” in a program led by Music Director Andris Nelsons that also includes works by Carlos Simon and Samuel Barber. -
Saturday, July 18th, 2026 at 8:00pm, iconic Japanese composer and conductor Joe Hisaishi leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in his own music as well as Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, with soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. -
Sunday, July 19th, 2026 at 7:00pm, Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Haydn’s “Philosopher” Symphony, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2, and Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto, with soloist Daniil Trifonov and trumpeter Thomas Rolfs. -
Friday, July 24th, 2026 at 8:00pm, BSO Artist-in-Residence Augustin Hadelich is the soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 in a program that also includes Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 3, all led by Andris Nelsons in the first of a three-concert series. -
Saturday, July 25th, 2026 at 8:00pm, in the second of a three-concert series pairing music by Mozart and Tchaikovsky, Paul Lewis is the soloist Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27, part of a program led by Music Director Andris Nelsons that culminates with Tchaikovsky’s exhilarating Symphony No. 4. -
Sunday, July 26th, 2026 at 7:00pm, in the final part of a concert series led by Music Director Andris Nelsons pairing works by Mozart and Tchaikovsky, Himari makes her BSO debut as the soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1, followed by Tchaikovsky’s blazingly triumphant Symphony No. 5. -
Friday, July 31st, 2026 at 8:00pm, Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the Boston Symphony in the passionate Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7, as well as Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with soloist Yefim Bronfman. -
Saturday, August 1st, 2026 at 8:00pm, soprano Ying Fang is Susanna and baritone Michael Sumuel is Figaro as the Boston Symphony and Music Director Andris Nelsons perform one of Mozart’s most endearingly captivating operas. -
Sunday, August 2nd, 2026 at 7:00pm, longtime BSO-collaborator Bell returns to Tanglewood as the violin soloist in Max Bruch’s virtuosic “Scottish Fantasy,” and Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Robert Schumann’s “Rhenish” Symphony and Sarah Kirkland Snider’s "Marmoris." -
Friday, August 7th, 2026 at 8:00pm, 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 Samy Rachid. -
Saturday, August 8th, 2026 at 8:00pm, in the second of three BSO concerts curated by Yo-Yo Ma, the cellist explores the vibrancy of American music and its reflection of the triumphs, tragedies, and vitality of our country with roots musicians Aoife O'Donovan and Jennifer Kreisberg. -
Sunday, August 9th, 2026 at 7:00pm, in the final part of a three-concert series curated by Yo-Yo Ma, Grammy-winning vocalist Arooj Aftab joins Ma in John Tavener’s Mahámátar, followed by Kayhan Kalhor’s Venus in the Mirror with the composer and cellist Karen Ouzounian, and Osvaldo Golijov’s Azul with BSO cellist Christine Lee. -
Friday, August 14th, 2026 at 8:00pm, Anna Handler leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a program that includes Christopher Rountree’s "For Martha (Variations on a Theme of Leonard Bernstein)," Aaron Copland’s "Appalachian Spring," and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. -
Saturday, August 15th, at 8:00pm, in a cherished Tanglewood tradition, Keith Lockhart leads the Boston Pops in John Williams’ Film Night, a fabulous program of film music curated by Maestro Williams himself, including selections from "Star Wars," "Superman," "Schindler’s List," and much more. -
Sunday, August 16, 2026 at 7:00pm, Tanglewood Music Center alum Marin Alsop leads the TMCO in Bruch’s First Violin Concerto, with soloist Ray Chen, as well as Anna Clyne’s "Masquerade" and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. -
Saturday, August 22, 2026 at 8:00pm, Thomas Wilkins conducts the first BSO performance of Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2, with soloist Randall Goosby in his Tanglewood debut, part of a program that also includes Bernstein’s life-affirming "Chichester Psalms" and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8. -
Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 7:00pm, Gustavo Gimeno leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and a stellar cast of soloists in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and its inspirational “Ode to Joy.”
Previous and On Demand Broadcasts
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Pianist Seong-Jin Cho returns to Symphony Hall as the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in a program that also includes Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Allison Loggins-Hull’s Rhapsody on a Theme by Joni for flute and orchestra, with BSO Principal Flute Lorna McGhee. -
Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra launch a multi-concert exploration of American music with Barber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera “Vanessa,” in collaboration with Boston Lyric Opera. -
The Boston Symphony Orchestra, a collection of stellar soloists, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus joined by the Boys of the St. Paul’s Choir School perform Mahler’s spiritually optimistic Eighth Symphony. -
Star pianist Inon Barnatan returns to Symphony Hall to take on one of Bartók’s final works, and Eun Sun Kim makes her BSO debut. -
Violinist Isabelle Faust is the soloist in Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto and Alan Gilbert conducts two Haydn Symphonies. -
Herbert Blomstedt, one of the masters of conducting for over seven decades, leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in symphonies by Schubert and Brahms. -
Music Director Andris Nelsons shares a program with conductors Ross Jamie Collins and Na’Zir McFadden featuring works by Sibelius and Grieg, with piano soloist Benjamin Grosvenor. -
Samy Rachid leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Dvořák’s dramatic Cello Concerto featuring soloist Pablo Ferrández, as well as his Eighth Symphony, infused with the vigor and beauty of the natural world. -
Anna Handler conducts the rarely heard Violin Concerto by Ukrainian composer Thomas de Hartmann with soloist Joshua Bell, and the kaleidoscopic brilliance of Mussorgsky’s "Pictures at an Exhibition." -
Dima Slobodeniouk conducts the Boston Symphony in the highly anticipated world premiere of Tania León’s Time to Time, followed by Roberto Sierra’s Concerto for Saxophones and Orchestra featuring soloist James Carter, as well as Brahms’s lyrically pastoral Second Symphony.
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.