Andris Nelsons

Strauss at Tanglewood, with Nelsons and the BSO

The Boston Symphony and Andris Nelsons perform a program of dynamic, graceful, and emotionally riveting works by Richard Strauss, including a suite from the opera “Der Rosenkavalier.”

Thomas Warfield has short, curly, purple hair. He wears a blue fur coat and smiles at the camera. Paul Lewis has dark curly hair and blue eyes. He wears a dark pea coat and stares intently at the camera. Andris Nelsons has dark brown hair and a beard. He wears a navy suit and looks to the left of the camera.

Koussevitzky’s Legacy at Tanglewood

Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in works by Copland, Stravinsky, Thompson, and James Lee III, each a reflection of Serge Koussevitzky’s original vision of the role of Tanglewood in the music world.

Jean Yves Thibaudet wears a black dress shirt and stands in a white spotlight. He has blondish gray hair and blue eyes, and he smiles at the camera softly.

Thibaudet and the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood

Jean-Yves Thibaudet is the soloist in Khachaturian’s vibrant, colorful Piano Concerto, part of a program that also includes Tania León's Pulitzer prize-winning "Stride" and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, the “Pathétique.”

Will Liverman wears a rust colored suit and a long black tie. Yefim Bronfman wears a black suit and bowtie. Edwin Barker wears concert black and holds the neck of his bass.

Nelsons, the BSO, and Koussevitzky at Tanglewood

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Serge Koussevitzky, Andris Nelsons leads a concert that includes Koussevitzky’s Double Bass Concerto, with soloist Edwin Barker, as well as spectacular works by Steven Mackey, Sibelius, and Scriabin.

Emanuel Ax stands in an old brick building. Sunlight streams in through the windows, illuminating Ax's white hair and blue eyes. He wears a suit and frameless glasses, and he smiles at the camera.

Strauss’s Cosmic Power and Beethoven’s Vigorous Introspection, with Nelsons and Ax and Tanglewood

Now available on demand, Andris Nelsons leads the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in Richard Strauss’s "Also sprach Zarathustra" and Charles Ives’s "Three Places in New England," as well as Beethoven’s "Piano Concerto No. 3," with soloist Emanuel Ax.

Both artists look intently at the camera, wearing concert black. Weinius stands in a doorway framed by sunlight. Goerke is surrounded by dark stone, and she smiles at the camera wickedly.

Wagner’s “Twilight of the Gods,” Live from Tanglewood!

Now available on demand, Andris Nelsons leads the BSO and an all-star cast, featuring soprano Christine Goerke and tenor Michael Weinius, in the epic conclusion of Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung, Act III of Götterdämmerung.

Augustin Hadelich sits on the sill of a large stained-glass window. He sits in all black, holding his violin and looking at the camera.

Hadelich, Prokofiev, and the BSO at Tanglewood

Now available on demand, Augustin Hadelich is the soloist in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 on a program including Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 and Sarah Kirkland Snider’s "Forward Into Light", a meditation on “perseverance, bravery, and alliance.”

Yuja Wang wears a bright yellow, sleeveless gown against a rich purple background. She lays her head and folded arms on a grand piano and stares at the camera.

Yuja Wang and the BSO at Tanglewood

Now available on demand, Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony in Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, starring powerhouse pianist Yuja Wang, as well as two pieces by Duke Ellington and Carlos Simon’s “Warmth from Other Suns.”

A sunny picture of the Shed at Tanglewood, surrounded by lush trees and a bright blue sky.

“Apollon musagète” and “Scheherazade,” with the BSO at Tanglewood

Now available on demand, Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony in Stravinsky’s iconic tale of the Greek god Apollo and three muses of artistic inspiration, followed by Rimsky-Korsakov’s "Scheherazade", inspired by the story of “One Thousand and One Nights.”

Gil Shaham, in a dark suit, holding his violin, with a background of green trees

Gil Shaham and Opening Night at Tanglewood!

Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony kick off the 2024 Tanglewood season in an All-Beethoven program that includes the composer’s Violin Concerto, with soloist Gil Shaham, and the emotionally expansive “Eroica” Symphony.