Richard Strauss

On WCRB In Concert with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Andris Nelsons conducts Strauss's "Also sprach Zarathustra" and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3, with soloist Emanuel Ax, among other highlights from the 2024 Tanglewood season.

Jean-Yves Thibaudet brings dazzling elegance to Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and Antonio Pappano conducts two works that ask deep questions of humanity: Richard Strauss’s “Also sprach Zarathustra” and Hannah Kendall’s “O flower of fire.”

Renée Fleming and the Boston Symphony perform a program of dynamic, graceful, and emotionally riveting works by Richard Strauss, including a suite from the opera “Der Rosenkavalier.”

Now available on demand, Andris Nelsons leads the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in Richard Strauss’s "Also sprach Zarathustra" and Charles Ives’s "Three Places in New England," as well as Beethoven’s "Piano Concerto No. 3," with soloist Emanuel Ax.

Andris Nelsons begins his 10th season as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director with works by Beethoven, Richard Strauss, and Arturs Maskats, as well as Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23, with soloist Rudolf Buchbinder.

Not all heroes wear capes and fly through the air. Some swoop into our lives on classical music! Hear some of them for National Heroes Day on Oct. 8.

Andris Nelsons leads the BSO at Tanglewood in a program of Stravinsky's "Petruska," Julia Adolphe's "Makeshift Castle," and superstar Renée Fleming is the soloist in Strauss songs with orchestra.

Superstar violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter joins Andris Nelsons and the BSO in John Williams's Violin Concerto No. 2, with works by Strauss and Ravel also on the program.

The song got it right: “The hills ARE alive with the sound of music!”

In the midst of the Oscar awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, classical music has always been a star performer.