Antonin Dvorak

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.

Nodoka Okisawa, a protégée of former BSO Music Director Seiji Ozawa, makes her Boston Symphony Orchestra debut with Takemitsu’s “Requiem for strings,” as well as Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony and Violin Concerto with soloist Midori.

Andrés Orozco-Estrada makes his Tanglewood debut conducting Dvořák’s much-beloved Ninth Symphony, and the inimitable Joshua Bell joins to play Lalo’s spirited Symphonie espagnole.

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.”

In an encore broadcast, Venezuelan conductor Domingo Hindoyan makes his BSO debut leading the American premiere of Roberto Sierra's Symphony No. 6, and Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández makes his BSO debut in Edward Elgar’s regal and impassioned Cello Concerto.

In an encore broadcast, Elder leads the BSO in Ravel's "Mother Goose" and Dvořák's "The Noonday Witch," as well as a new work by Elena Langer featuring cellist Blaise Déjardin and Janáček's spectacular Sinfonietta.

In an encore broadcast from the 2023 Tanglewood season, Xian Zhang leads the BSO in a pastoral program including Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" and Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World."

Not all heroes wear capes and fly through the air. Some swoop into our lives on classical music! Hear some of them for National Heroes Day on Oct. 8.

Before I had ever heard of Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, or Mendelssohn, their music was the soundtrack to my childhood thanks to a doll called Barbie.

The Moon helps us keep track of time, of tides, of the ebb and flow of life. And inspires music.