Tanglewood

Cho returns to Symphony Hall for Rachmaninoff’s "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini," and the Boston Symphony Orchestra closes the program with Rachmaninoff’s melodically rich Symphony No. 2, all led by Andris Nelsons.

Kirill Gerstein is the soloist in a new piano concerto by Spanish composer Francisco Coll, and Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Beethoven’s “Coriolan” Overture and Symphony No. 7.

Hilary Hahn and cellist Seth Parker Woods are the soloists in BSO Composer Chair Carlos Simon’s Double Concerto Suite, part of a program that includes selections from Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” and “The Nutcracker.”

Kent Nagano leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides Overture, Mendelssohn's "Reformation" Symphony, and two premieres.

Ma joins Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Edward Elgar’s monumental Cello Concerto, on a program including Brahms’s final symphony and Arturs Maskats's "Tango."

In the first of a two-part series exploring themes of creation, Philippe Jordan leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in Haydn’s oratorio "The Creation," with soprano Louise Alder, tenor Bogdan Volkov, and bass-baritone David Steffens.

In the second of a two-part two exploration of the theme of creation, Eric Jacobsen conducts "Creation," a BSO-commissioned work by Osvaldo Golijov and David Henry Hwang, featuring vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, bass-baritone Davóne Tines, kamancheh soloist Kayhan Kalhor, and percussionist Cyro Baptista.

Samy Rachid leads the Boston Symphoyn Orchestra in a concert of German Romantic masterworks: the Overture from Carl Maria von Weber’s opera Oberon, Robert Schumann’s “Spring” Symphony, and Felix Mendelssohn’s dazzling Piano Concerto No. 1 featuring Jan Lisiecki.

Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet is the soloist in George Gershwin’s blues-inflected Piano Concerto in F, and conductor Kazuki Yamada makes his Symphony Hall debut with two of Ottorino Respighi’s colorful homages to Rome.