Andris Nelsons

A white, circular stone bench at the edge of a garden. The broad blue sky stretches towards distant mountains, speckled with white puffy clouds.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with Bill Barclay’s Concert Theatre Works, performs "Romeo and Juliet: A Theatrical Concert for Orchestra and Actors," based on the ballet by Prokofiev.

Yefim Bronfman and Andris Nelsons are side by side in concert black. They both smiles at the camera.

An All-Beethoven Concert at Tanglewood with Bronfman and Nelsons

Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in an All-Beethoven program featuring pianist Yefim Bronfman.

An All-Rachmaninoff Opening Night at Tanglewood!

Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony kick off the 2025 Tanglewood season in an All-Rachmaninoff program including his Symphonic Dances.

Collage of Reginald Mobley, Erin Morley, and Will Liverman. Mobley standing on left side, smiles facing straight, Morley sitting in center, smiles facing right, Liverman standing on right, with hands in blazer pockets, faces right looking stern.

“Carmina Burana,” with Nelsons and the BSO at Tanglewood

In an encore broadcast from the 2023 Tanglewood season, Andris Nelsons leads the BSO and Tanglewood Festival Chorus in Beethoven's "Leonore" Overture No. 3 and Orff's "Carmina Burana," starring acclaimed soloists Reginald Mobley, Erin Morley, and Will Liverman.

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

In an encore broadcast, 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.”

A close-up on the ornate, golden proscenium of Symphony Hall. The name "Beethoven" is in the keynote position, surrounded by flourishes of cornucopias and leaves as well as the numbers 8 and 9, printed in an art-nouveau font.

Nelsons, the BSO, and Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”

In an encore broadcast, the Boston Symphony’s Beethoven cycle, led by Music Director Andris Nelsons, culminates with the playful Symphony No. 8 and the Symphony No. 9, featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and a stellar cast of soloists in its iconic final movement, the “Ode to Joy.”

Nelsons, the BSO, and Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos. 6 and 7

In a special encore broadcast, the Boston Symphony’s Beethoven journey reaches the Symphony No. 6, the Pastoral Symphony, and the rhythmically charged Symphony No. 7.

The BSO and Two Sides of Beethoven

In a special encore broadcast of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons conducts Beethoven’s lyric and joyful Symphony No. 4 and the mighty Symphony No. 5.

Beethoven’s Revolutionary Early Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, & 3

In a special encore broadcast, Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the first part of an epic journey through all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies, including the transformative "Eroica."

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

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.”