Sergei Prokofiev

Yuja Wang tosses her dark hair back and smiles in a sparkling black gown. She wears red lipstick and stands before a red backdrop.

Wild Obsession: Berlioz, Prokofiev, and Yuja Wang

Yuja Wang returns to Tanglewood as the soloist in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and Andris Nelsons leads the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in Berlioz’s "Symphonie fantastique."

A white, circular stone bench at the edge of a garden. The broad blue sky stretches towards distant mountains, speckled with white puffy clouds.

Star-Crossed Lovers at Tanglewood

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, in collaboration with Bill Barclay’s Concert Theatre Works, performs Romeo and Juliet: A Theatrical Concert for Orchestra and Actors, based on the ballet by Prokofiev.

Midori wears a black dress with lace sleeves. Her dark hair is slicked back into a bun, and a pearl hangs from her ear. She holds her violin across her chest, and she smiles softly at the camera.

Midori at Tanglewood with the Boston Symphony Orchestra

In an encore broadcast, BSO Assistant Conductor Samy Rachid leads the orchestra for the first time in an all-Russian program that includes Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto, with soloist Midori, and the blazing Symphony No. 5 by Tchaikovsky.

Augustin Hadelich sits on the sill of a large stained-glass window. He sits in all black, holding his violin and looking at the camera.

Hadelich, Prokofiev, and the BSO at Tanglewood

Augustin Hadelich is the soloist in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 on a program including Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 and Sarah Kirkland Snider’s "Forward Into Light", a meditation on “perseverance, bravery, and alliance.”

Joshua Bell, Paganini, and the BSO at Tanglewood

In an encore broadcast from the 2023 Tanglewood season, Anna Rakitina conducts the BSO in Prokofiev's Suite from "Romeo and Juliet," as well as Ellen Reid's "When the World as You've Known It Doesn't Exist," and Joshua Bell is the soloist in Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1.

Daniil Trifonov performs the Brahms First Piano Concerto with Andris Nelsons and the BSO

Trifonov, Nelsons, and the BSO

In an encore broadcast from the 2023 Tanglewood season, Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Wynton Marsalis's "Herald, Holler, and Hallelujah," Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, and pianist Daniil Trifonov joins for Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3.

Thomas Rolfs stands against a black backdrop wearing an entirely black suit. He's bald and has blue eyes. He holds his trumpet and smiles at the camera.

Glanert's Trumpet Concerto with Rolfs and the BSO

Thomas Rolfs is the soloist in Detlev Glanert’s eclectic and dramatic Trumpet Concerto, and Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony in works by Gubaidulina and Prokofiev.

Joshua Weilerstein stands outside and looks at the camera, softly smiling. Piers Lane wears a suit and has his arms folded up on the piano in front of him. He looks upwards, off camera. Mistral includes ten musicians, and all of them stands outside against a stone wall and smile at the camera. The four string players of the Pacifica Quartet wear black and pose with their instruments, all smizing at the camera.

From Rockport to Concord with Wagner, Prokofiev, Chopin, and Beethoven

On WCRB In Concert, Joshua Weilerstein leads the Phoenix Orchestra in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony in Boston, Mistral performs Wagner in Brookline, Piers Lane plays Chopin in Rockport, and the Pacifica Quartet plays Prokofiev in Concord.

Form top left: a collage of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Monument, a firefighter, a gold medalist runner, and a doctor.

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Heroes in Music

Laura Carlo

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.

Leonidas Kavakos sits in a dark room, facing straight, with a violin on his right side

Tchaikovsky, with Kavakos and the BSO at Tanglewood

Leonidas Kavakos is the soloist in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, and Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5 at Tanglewood.