On Demand

On The Bach Hour, John Eliot Gardiner leads the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in the composer's musical confrontation with the capriciousness of life.

On The Bach Hour, the composer's "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen" charts a course from dark sorrow to resolute peace in a performance by Collegium Vocale of Ghent and their director, Philippe Herreweghe.

It's an evening dedicated to the BSO's rich recording discography, centered on Johannes Brahms's Symphony No. 2 and Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1 with Music Director Andris Nelsons, plus works by Thomas Adès and Ferruccio Busoni, on demand.

Closing out the 2021-2022 Boston Symphony Orchestra season, BSO Principal Cellist Blaise Déjardin is center-stage in Saint-Saëns's Cello Concerto No. 1, and Andris Nelsons conducts Richard Strauss's panoramic "An Alpine Symphony" and a selection from the composer's "Intermezzo," on demand.

On WCRB In Concert with the Handel and Haydn Society, Czech conductor Václav Luks also leads lesser-known music by Voříšek and Bologne, on demand.

Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in three works by German composer Richard Strauss, culminating with the nostalgically rich "Symphonia domestica," on demand.

On WCRB In Concert with Boston Baroque, it's an evening celebrating the musical voice of Handel, in a program centered on the German composer's Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks, from GBH's Calderwood Studio, on demand.

On WCRB In Concert with Mistral, it's a celebration of remarkable musical voices across three centuries of women composers, including Fanny Mendelssohn, Florence Price, Gwyneth Walker, and Elizabeth Brown, on demand.

On WCRB In Concert with the Celebrity Series of Boston, pianist Jeremy Denk explores the musical and romantic bonds between Brahms and the Schumanns. Then soprano Ying Fang sings light-hearted chansons by Bizet and achingly beautiful songs by Rachmaninoff, plus Schubert's tempestuous "Night and Dreams," on demand.

On WCRB In Concert with the Handel and Haydn Society, guest conductor Laurence Equilbey leads the period instrument ensemble in Louise Farrenc's Symphony No. 3 and Beethoven's ode to Mother Nature, the "Pastoral" Symphony, on demand.