Johannes Brahms

Conductor Fabio Luisi and pianist Eric Lu

At Tanglewood, Luisi Conducts Brahms and Chopin, with Eric Lu

In his Boston Symphony debut, conductor Fabio Luisi leads the Symphony No. 2 by Brahm and Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with soloist Eric Lu.

Rachel Barton Pine poses in front of a harpishord holding her violin. She has ginger red hair and large blue eyes.

Rachel Barton Pine at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

On WCRB In Concert with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Rachel Barton Pine presents a recital on violin and viola d’amore, including the Gardner Museum's extraordinary 1770s viola d'amore.

Blomstedt Conducts an All-Brahms Program with the BSO

Nonagenarian Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt returns to Symphony Hall to lead an All-Brahms program, including "Nänie" and "Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny)" with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and his Fourth Symphony.

Herbert Blomstedt wears a striped button shirt and a red sweater. He has white hair and frameless glasses. He stands outside and looks at the camera, smiling softly.

Blomstedt Conducts the BSO

Herbert Blomstedt, one of the masters of conducting for over seven decades, leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in symphonies by Schubert and Brahms.

Conductor Dima Slobodeniouk and saxophonist James Carter

Slobodeniouk Conducts Brahms, Sierra, and a World Premiere

Dima Slobodeniouk conducts the Boston Symphony in the highly anticipated world premiere of Tania León’s Time to Time, followed by Roberto Sierra’s Concerto for Saxophones and Orchestra featuring soloist James Carter, as well as Brahms’s lyrically pastoral Second Symphony.

Hadelich and Handler both wear concert black and look at the camera. Hadelich smiles softly, and Handler holders her baton close to her chin.

Handler’s Boston Symphony Debut with Hadelich, at Tanglewood

BSO Assistant Conductor Anna Handler makes her Tanglewood and BSO debuts conducting Brahms’s Tragic Overture, Schumann’s Symphony No. 4, and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with GRAMMY-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich.

People crowd the lawn at the Koussevitzky Music Shed to enjoy the music and watch Andris Nelsons conduct the BSO on a large screen.

Nelsons Conducts Brahms and Berlioz at Tanglewood

Boston Symphony Music Director Andris Nelsons leads the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in the Symphony No. 2 by Brahms and Berlioz’s "Symphonie fantastique," in concert from Tanglewood.

Canellakis, Ehnes, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra

In an encore broadcast, conductor Karina Canellakis returns to Tanglewood to lead the BSO and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in rhapsodic music by Brahms and Ravel, and violinist James Ehnes is the soloist in Chausson’s “Poème” and Ravel’s “Tzigane.”

In the darkness of Pickman Hall, one spot light illuminates four players: two violins, one viola, one cello, and one clarinet shimmer in the light.

"Shimmer," with Radius Ensemble

On WCRB In Concert with the Radius Ensemble, selections from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Hilary Tann, and Jennifer Higdon embody and celebrate the shimmering natural world.

A collage of Domingo Hindoyan and Pablo Ferrández. Hindoyan (left) stands outside on a busy street wearing a black jacket and black v-neck. He has wavy black hair and stubble. He squints in the sun and smiles at the camera. Ferrández (right) stands against a gold background in a black turtleneck. There is a red projection on him in the shape of a cello. He looks at the camera and poses in a thinking position with his chin resting on his fingers. He has short black hair and a beard.

The BSO Debuts of Ferrández and Hindoyan

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.