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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.

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  • Keith Lockhart stands on stage with and the Boston Pops. Symphony Hall is decorated in red and white lights.
    Holiday Pops 2023!
    In the time-honored Boston tradition, Keith Lockhart conducts the Boston Pops in a program of holiday music old and new through traditional carols, Pops classics, and a special visit from one jolly, old fellow!
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  • Jonathan Cohen stands at the podium with his hand raised high above him. He gazes upwards and smiles.
    Hallelujah! Handel and Haydn Society's "Messiah"
    On WCRB In Concert with the Handel and Haydn Society, Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen leads the H+H Orchestra, Chorus, and a slate of spectacular soloists in a centuries-old Boston tradition.
  • A collage of Stewart Goodyear performing as the pianist soloist in his composition "Callaloo: A Caribbean suite for piano and orchestra," and Chineke! Orchestra's conductor Andrew Grams
    "Unbridled Joy," with the Chineke! Orchestra in Boston
    On WCRB In Concert with the Celebrity Series of Boston, Britain’s Chineke! Orchestra performs music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Florence Price, and Stewart Goodyear is the pianist in his own work, "Callaloo: A Caribbean Suite."
  • Vox Luminis
    Vox Luminis Sings Handel and Bach in Boston
    On WCRB In Concert with the Boston Early Music Festival, the Belgian ensemble Vox Luminis joins the BEMF Orchestra in Handel's Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day and Bach's Magnificat at Jordan Hall.
  • Joshua Weilerstein stands outside and looks at the camera, softly smiling. Piers Lane wears a suit and has his arms folded up on the piano in front of him. He looks upwards, off camera. Mistral includes ten musicians, and all of them stands outside against a stone wall and smile at the camera. The four string players of the Pacifica Quartet wear black and pose with their instruments, all smizing at the camera.
    From Rockport to Concord with Wagner, Prokofiev, Chopin, and Beethoven
    On WCRB In Concert, Joshua Weilerstein leads the Phoenix Orchestra in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony in Boston, Mistral performs Wagner in Brookline, Piers Lane plays Chopin in Rockport, and the Pacifica Quartet plays Prokofiev in Concord.
  • Boston Chamber Music Society, Sept. 19, 2021: (L to R) Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Yura Lee, viola; Max Levinson, piano; Marcus Thompson, viola; Thomas Van Dyck, bass; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
    An Evening of Lyrical Chamber Works, with the BCMS
    On WCRB In Concert with the Boston Chamber Music Society, melodious chamber pieces for piano and strings by Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Saint-Saëns take center stage, capped by a world premiere by Lowell Liebermann, all from New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall.
  • Boston Baroque's X-tet and the Rasa String Quartet perform at a Celtic Meets Classical event presented by GBH Music.
    Celtic Meets Classical, with the X-tet and the Rasa Quartet
    On WCRB In Concert from GBH Music, Boston Baroque's X-tet collaborates with the Rasa Quartet in a program that ranges from Handel and Boccherini to reels and jigs from the Celtic nations, all in GBH's Fraser Performance Studio.
  • Eleven members of ACRONYM stand outside in a field on an early fall day. They're dressed casually and they all hold their instrument over their right shoulder -- even the cellists and viola de gamba players.
    "Queen Christina's Playlist," from ACRONYM and the Boston Early Music Festival
    On WCRB In Concert with the Boston Early Music Festival, the baroque band ACRONYM performs music made possible by Sweden's Queen Christina, including works by Corelli, Scarlatti, Pasquini, and more, at Jordan Hall in Boston.
  • Left: Diana Adamyan facing the viewer and holding a violin; Right: Emi Ferguson facing to the right holding a flute
    The Grace of Adamyan's Mendelssohn and the Charge of Ferguson's Bach
    On WCRB In Concert with the Celebrity Series of Boston, flutist Emi Ferguson and the early music ensemble Ruckus perform J.S. Bach's music in a program called "Fly the Coop," and Diana Adamyan is the soloist in Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with the Boston Pops and conductor Keith Lockhart.
  • Pianist Alexandre Kantorow
    2024 Gilmore Artist Alexandre Kantorow, In Concert
    On WCRB In Concert with The Gilmore, pianist Alexandre Kantorow performs music by Brahms, Schubert songs arranged by Liszt, and one of Bach's most emotionally powerful works.
  • Conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini is seen conducting, gesturing enthusiastically to the H&H Orchestra and Chorus
    Bach's "Easter Oratorio" from the Handel and Haydn Society
    On WCRB In Concert with the Handel and Haydn Society, Rinaldo Alessandrini leads a hopeful program including Bononcini's "Stabat Mater" and Bach’s "Easter Oratorio."
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