Dmitri Shostakovich

Back to School with the NEC Philharmonia and Hugh Wolff

This week on the Symphony at 8, we're celebrating the start of another school year with one of Boston's best student orchestras - the New England Conservatory Philharmonia, led by Hugh Wolff.

Join us each weeknight at 8 for extraordinary performances by some of today's most exciting young musicians.

Lugansky Plays Rachmaninoff

March 26, 2016

Pianist Nikolai Lugansky is the soloist in Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8 and Giya Kancheli's Dixi, with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.

Hannigan Sings "let me tell you"

April 3, 2020
8:00 PM

In a 2016 performance, soprano Barbara Hannigan sings Hans Abrahamsen's let me tell you, and Andris Nelsons conducts Shostakovich's Suite from Hamlet and a suite from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.

Nelsons Conducts Shostakovich's Fifth

November 21, 2015

Isabelle Faust is the soloist in Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus sings Bach's Komm, Jesu, komm! and Es ist genug, and the BSO performs the Symphony No. 5 by Shostakovich, all conducted by Andris Nelsons.

Andris Nelsons in the BSO's 2015-2016 Opening Concert

October 3, 2015

Music Director Andris Nelsons and the BSO open the season with an All-Russian program, including the Symphony No. 9 by Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, with soloist Evgeny Kissin, and Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances.