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Tanglewood

CRB brings you performances at Tanglewood, with host Brian McCreath, on Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 7pm. For on demand concerts and a full broadcast schedule, please visit classical.org/tanglewood.

Upcoming Broadcasts
  • Domingo Hindoyan wears a black short-sleeve shirt and holds his baton, staring into the camera fiercely. Yuja Wang wears a glittering black dress against a red backdrop, tossing her head back and laughing.
    Yuja Wang, Prokofiev, and the Boston Symphony
    Wang joins returning conductor Domingo Hindoyan for Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto, bookended by Copland’s optimistic Third Symphony and Bernstein’s Three Dance Episodes from “On The Town.”
  • Sir Antonio Pappano wears a dark suit and a burgundy scarf. He balances his baton between his hands, perching it horizontally between his two pointer fingers. He stares down the camera with his brown eyes, not smiling. Jean-Yves Thibaudet wears a dark suit and stands in front of an open grand piano. He looks at the camera with his light blue eyes and smiles softly.
    Pappano, Thibaudet, and the BSO
    In an encore broadcast, 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.”
  • Conductor Nodoka Okisawa and violinist Midori
    Okisawa’s BSO Debut and Tribute to Seiji Ozawa
    Nodoka Okisawa, a protégée of former BSO Music Director Seiji Ozawa, makes her Boston Symphony Orchestra debut with Takemitsu’s “Requiem for strings,” as well as Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony and Violin Concerto with soloist Midori.
  • Conductor Dima Slobodeniouk and saxophonist James Carter
    Slobodeniouk Conducts Brahms, Sierra, and a World Premiere
    Dima Slobodeniouk conducts the Boston Symphony in the highly anticipated world premiere of Tania León’s Time to Time, followed by Roberto Sierra’s Concerto for Saxophones and Orchestra featuring soloist James Carter, as well as Brahms’s lyrically pastoral Second Symphony.
  • Violinist Joshua Bell and conductor Jonathon Heyward
    Joshua Bell, the BSO, and de Hartmann’s Violin Concerto
    Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Music Director Jonathon Heyward makes his BSO debut with the rarely heard Violin Concerto by Ukrainian composer Thomas de Hartmann, with soloist Joshua Bell, and the kaleidoscopic brilliance of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition
  • Cellist Pablo Ferrández
    An All-Dvořák Program with Rachid, Ferrández, and the BSO
    Samy Rachid leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Dvořák’s dramatic Cello Concerto featuring soloist Pablo Ferrández, as well as his Eighth Symphony, infused with the vigor and beauty of the natural world.
  • A display of the three artists in beiges and pinks. Benjamin Grosvenor sits outside in a dark coat, leaning forward and looking up at the camera. Ross Jamie Collins straightens the collar of his white button down and smiles, looking off to the right of frame. Na'Zir McFadden poses in front of a beige backdrop in a turtleneck and suit jacket, holding his baton. He smiles widely and looks off to the right of frame.
    The Boston Symphony and Music of Scandinavia
    Music Director Andris Nelsons shares a program with conductors Ross Jamie Collins and Na’Zir McFadden featuring works by Sibelius and Grieg, with piano soloist Benjamin Grosvenor.
  • Herbert Blomstedt wears a striped button shirt and a red sweater. He has white hair and frameless glasses. He stands outside and looks at the camera, smiling softly.
    Blomstedt Conducts the BSO
    Herbert Blomstedt, one of the masters of conducting for over seven decades, leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in symphonies by Schubert and Brahms.
  • Isabelle Faust has short blonde hair and hazel eyes. She holds her violin up close to her face and smizes at the camera. Alan Gilbert wears a blue pinstripe blazer, a black shirt, and round glasses. He has salt and pepper hair and a beard. He smiles softly at the camera.
    Isabelle Faust and Alan Gilbert join the BSO for Haydn and Stravinsky
    Violinist Isabelle Faust is the soloist in Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto and Alan Gilbert conducts two Haydn Symphonies.
  • Eun Sun Kim leans against a white wall in a black suit jacket. She has long, dark brown hair and brown eyes. She looks at the camera and smiles softly. Inon Barnatan poses in front of a bright yellow wall. He wears a leather jacket and has hazel eyes. He leans forward and looks at the camera, smiling softly.
    Rachmaninoff and Bartók with Eun Sun Kim and Inon Barnatan
    Star pianist Inon Barnatan returns to Symphony Hall to take on one of Bartók’s final works, and Eun Sun Kim makes her BSO debut.