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  • On WCRB In Concert with Vivo Performing Arts, the Danish String Quartet performs Haydn, Britten, and traditional Nordic folk tunes.
  • On The Bach Hour, Canadian Brass applies their burnished sonic brilliance and seamless musicality to excerpts from the composer's "Goldberg Variations."
  • On The Bach Hour, violinist Lara St. John and harpist Marie-Pierre Langlamet bring uncommon warmth, color, and resonance to the composer's Violin Sonata No. 1.
  • On WCRB In Concert with the TMCO, Andris Nelsons conducts Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2, with soloist Yuja Wang, and the musicians of the Tanglewood Music Center perform additional works by Smetana, Beethoven, and Ravel.
  • On The Bach Hour, pianist Simone Dinnerstein describes her childhood entry into the composer's music through his Two-Part Inventions, and why they remain continually fascinating.
  • Salonen leads the Boston Symphony in his own Horn Concerto, with soloist Stefan Dohr, a piece inspired by Bruckner’s soaring Symphony No. 4, the “Romantic” Symphony.
  • On The Bach Hour, the Academy for Ancient Music Berlin brings vibrant textures and colors to the composer's ultimate musical statement in counterpoint, and John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Cantata No. 181, confronting "light-minded, frivolous spirits."
  • BSO Assistant Conductor Anna Handler leads the orchestra in Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante, with Concertmaster Nathan Cole and Principal Viola Steven Ansell as soloists, as well as Gabriella Smith’s "Bioluminescence Chaconne" and Tchaikovsky's Suite from "Swan Lake."
  • On WCRB In Concert with Radius Ensemble, hear Radius perform Schubert's atmospheric, harmonically rich Octet in F major and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's rustic Quintet for clarinet and strings in F# minor.
  • On The Bach Hour, violist Maxim Rysanov's interpretation of the composer's Cello Suite No. 1 is a merging of two musical approaches that mirror his own path through life.