Gustav Mahler

Violinist Ray Chen and conductor Marin Alsop

Marin Alsop, Ray Chen, and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra

Tanglewood Music Center alum Marin Alsop leads the TMCO in Bruch’s First Violin Concerto, with soloist Ray Chen, as well as Anna Clyne’s "Masquerade" and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5.

Pianist Emanuel Ax and soprano Erin Morley

Mozart and Mahler with the BSO at Tanglewood

Music Director Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 with soloist Emanuel Ax, as well as Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with soprano Erin Morley.

Actor Alec Baldwin, looking slightly to the left, in a black, high collared shirt against a black background

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Alec Baldwin on Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" with the BSO at Tanglewood

The actor talks with CRB's Brian McCreath about narrating Copland's tribute to the 16th President of the United States, as well as his own love of and enthusiasm for classical music.

Andris Nelsons, dressed in concert black, has his baton and arms raised above the orchestra, who are all dressed in white.

Bach, Mahler, and Mendelssohn, at Tanglewood!

In an encore broadcast, Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony in the Air from Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3, the Adagio from Mahler’s Symphony No. 10, and two iconic works by Felix Mendelssohn. Soloist María Dueñas features in the Violin Concerto, and the concert concludes with Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.

Clockwise from top left: Joana Mallwitz, Kent Nagano, Andris Nelsons, Seong-Jin Cho, Alisa Weilerstein, Cécile McLorin Salvant

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The Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2026-2027 Season

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced details of its 2026-2027 season, marked by programs focused on singular composers and themes, a dynamic Artist in Residence, and significant world and U.S. premieres.

A view from the orchestra, looking over a sea of sheet music and stands. Andris Nelsons stands on a podium with his arms in the air. Behind him, a see of audience members and the vastness of Symphony Hall.

Nelsons, the BSO, and Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand”

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, a collection of stellar soloists, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus joined by the Boys of the St. Paul’s Choir School perform Mahler’s spiritually optimistic Eighth Symphony.

Nikola Hillebrand wears a peach-colored dress and peers down at the camera from a white ledge. She smiles warmly.

The Heavenly Life of Mahler’s Fourth, with the BSO and Nikola Hillebrand

Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, sung by soprano Nikola Hillebrand, as well as Debussy’s Nocturnes with Lorelei Ensemble.

view of the Koussevitzky Music Shed in the background, behind a large tree on the Tanglewood lawn

Nelsons Conducts Mahler at Tanglewood

Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the epic journey of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1.

Elena Villalón wears a black dress that hangs on one shoulder. Her dark hair tumbles down that shoulder. She has a beauty mark on her cheek and she stares down the camera, softly smiling. James Gaffigan wears a white, collared shirt and wears his brown hair slicked back. He has blue eyes and a beard, and he gazes at the camera wistfully.

Villalón, Gaffigan, and the BSO at Tanglewood

In an encore broadcast, conductor James Gaffigan makes his Boston Symphony debut in a program that includes arias from Mozart’s “Idomeneo” and “The Marriage of Figaro” and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, with soprano Elena Villalón, as well as Anna Clyne’s “Sound and Fury."

L-R: Gustav Mahler (Moritz Nähr, via Wikimedia Commons); Riccardo Chailly (Brescia & Amisano, via La Scala); J.S. Bach (Elias Gottlob Haussmann, via Wikimedia Commons)

The Bach Hour

Chailly Conducts Bach, Through Mahler's Lens

On The Bach Hour, the vast sonic landscape of Gustav Mahler's musical language transforms selections from Bach's Orchestral Suites in a performance by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and conductor Riccardo Chailly.