In Concert
Sundays, 7pm
In Concert captures the wealth of incredible music being performed in and around the Boston area, from the Handel and Haydn Society to Boston Chamber Music Society and beyond. See a full list of broadcast partners here.
Upcoming Episodes
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On WCRB In Concert with the Boston Chamber Music Society, an ode to the historic Massachusetts town, Daniel Godfrey’s "Ad Concordiam," is bookended by Beethoven and Brahms.
Previous and On Demand Episodes
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On WCRB in Concert with the Celebrity Series of Boston, the Danish String Quartet shares folk tunes from their native Denmark and Norway, as well as string quartets by Haydn and Shostakovich and three divertimenti by Britten.
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On WCRB In Concert with the Concord Chamber Music Society, the Hermitage Piano Trio performs Turina, Rachmaninoff, and Perelló, and Yehudi Wyner and Wendy Putnam perform Wyner's own music, along with that of Price and Schubert.
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On WCRB In Concert with the Boston Early Music Festival, the Prague-based women's ensemble Tiburtina sings medieval music by Hildegard von Bingen, and Renaissance Italy bursts into musical life through the singing of Amanda Forsythe, Cecilia Duarte, and Dorothee Mields.
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On WCRB In Concert with Radius Ensemble, works by Nino Rota, Valerie Coleman, Tōru Takemitsu, and Charles Ives illuminate concepts of borders, as well as the rewards of crossing them.
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On WCRB In Concert with Boston Lyric Opera, a Pulitzer-prize-winning work by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, telling the stirring true story of Omar ibn Said, a Muslim man enslaved in America.
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On WCRB In Concert with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Andris Nelsons conducts Debussy's "La Mer" and Dima Slobodeniouk leads the TMCO in Sibelius's Second Symphony, part of a program of highlights from the summer of 2023 in the Berkshires.
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On WCRB In Concert with Mistral, highlights from two different performances make for a unexpected blend of the light-hearted and sublime, through works by Mozart, Dohnányi, Mahler, and Louis Spohr.
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On WCRB In Concert with the Handel and Haydn Society, buzzing flies, raging fire, and parting seas come to life in Handel's "Israel in Egypt," performed by the H+H chorus and period-instrument orchestra, all led by Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen.
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On WCRB In Concert with Chameleon Arts Ensemble, music inspired by William Shakespeare takes center stage in colorful works by Korngold, Vaughan Williams, Thomas Adès, and David Matthews, alongside Elgar's Piano Quintet in A minor, his portrait of the majestic beauty of the English countryside, on demand.
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On WCRB In Concert with the Celebrity Series of Boston, the German pianist plays four of J.S. Bach's intricate, poetic Keyboard Partitas.