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  • Emmanuel Pahud
    The Bach Hour
    Emmanuel Pahud's Bach Suite
    On The Bach Hour, the Principal Flutist of the Berlin Philharmonic is joined by his colleagues for one of Bach’s most virtuosic creations for his instrument.
  • Jamez McCorkle in traditional Islamic dress as the title character in BLO's "Omar", together with other cast members in front of a blue-green backdrop featuring Arabic writing
    "Omar," The True Story of an Enslaved Islamic Scholar, from Boston Lyric Opera
    On WCRB In Concert with Boston Lyric Opera, a Pulitzer-prize-winning work by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, telling the stirring true story of Omar ibn Said, a Muslim man enslaved in America.
  • Pianist Jeremy Denk in a suit, sitting at a piano and looking thoughtfully at it
    Episodes
    Bach's "Keyboard Practice," with Jeremy Denk
    On The Bach Hour, a prosaic name obscures the brilliance and emotional impact of the composer’s music, performed by one of today’s most thoughtful and dynamic pianists.
  • Clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois
    Grace, Drive, and Mystery, from de Guise-Langlois and BCMS
    Available on demand: On WCRB In Concert with the Boston Chamber Music Society, clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois is the soloist in Hummel's venerable Clarinet Quartet and Pierre Jalbert's recent meditation on the sacred and the secular, "Street Antiphons," in a program that also includes Brahms's Piano Quartet No. 2.
  • musicians of Radius Ensemble performing on the stage of Pickman Hall at the Longy School of Music of Bard College, May 21, 2022
    "Boundaries," with Radius Ensemble
    On demand on WCRB In Concert with Radius Ensemble, works by Nino Rota, Valerie Coleman, Tōru Takemitsu, and Charles Ives illuminate concepts of borders, as well as the rewards of crossing them.
  • musicians of Mistral, including violinist Juliette Kang, cellist Owen Young, and pianist Sophie Scolnik-Brower (background), in performance, September, 2021
    "Youth and Experience," with Mistral
    On WCRB In Concert with Mistral, early works by Felix Mendelssohn and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor form a vibrant counterpoint to the rich sonic landscape of Gabriel Fauré's Piano Trio, one of the composer's last pieces, on demand.
  • "I Dream a World," from the New World Symphony
    The Miami-based orchestra celebrates the artistic explosion emanating from 1920s New York, with music and poetry inspired by the Harlem Renaissance, on demand.
  • Jonathan Cohen leads the Handel and Haydn Society at Symphony Hall, October 2022
    "The Glories of Bach," with H+H and Jonathan Cohen
    On WCRB In Concert with the Handel and Haydn Society, H+H's next Artistic Director, Jonathan Cohen, conducts cantatas and orchestral music by Bach at Symphony Hall, on demand.
  • collage of three pictures, two from the Phoenix concert on March 27, 2022, and one of conductor Joshua Weilerstein
    Weilerstein and Phoenix Launch a New Collaboration
    On WCRB In Concert with Phoenix, the Boston-based chamber orchestra welcomes Music Director Joshua Weilerstein in a program of works by Bartók, Golijov, Beethoven, and much more, on demand.
  • wide landscape view of rolling hills and partly cloudy skies over Yorkshire Dales in England
    The Light and Shadow of English Chamber Music, from BCMS
    On WCRB In Concert with the Boston Chamber Music Society, works by Vaughan Williams, Britten, and Bliss paint a deeply textured picture of 20th-century British music, on demand.
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