The Boston Symphony Orchestra
Saturdays and Mondays at 8pm
CRB brings you performances from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with host Brian McCreath, Saturdays and Mondays at 8pm. Find our BSO broadcast schedule and stream on-demand concerts below.
Explore the 2024-2025 BSO season at Symphony Hall. To learn more about hearing BSO concerts in person, visit the BSO Box Office.
Upcoming Broadcast Schedule
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Saturday, February 8th, 2025 at 8:00pm, conductor Nathalie Stutzmann makes her Boston Symphony Orchestra debut in a program that includes Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with soloist Veronika Eberle, Ravel’s "Alborada del gracioso," and Stravinsky’s suite from "The Firebird." -
Saturday, February 15th, 2025 at 8:00pm, Herbert Blomstedt, one of the masters of conducting for over seven decades, leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in symphonies by Schubert and Brahms. -
Saturday, February 22nd, 2025 at 8:00pm, violinist Isabelle Faust is the soloist in Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto and Alan Gilbert conducts two Haydn Symphonies. -
Saturday, March 1st, 2025 at 8:00pm, Giancarlo Guerrero conducts for Gabriela Ortiz’s, "Revolución diamantina" and the Boston Symphony Orchestra performs Tchiakovsky’s tumultuous "Francesca da Rimini." -
Saturday, March 8th, 2025 at 8:00pm, 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. -
Saturday, March 15th, 2025 at 8:00pm, Ray Chen plays Tchaikovsky’s beloved Violin Concerto, and the BSO performs Bernstein’s love letter to New York: the Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story." -
Saturday, March 22nd, 2025 at 8:00pm, the Boston Symphony Orchestra premieres a re-framing of John Coltrane’s legendary jazz compositions, curated by Composer Chair Carlos Simon. -
Saturday, March 29th, 2025 at 8:00pm, the Boston Symphony Orchestra performs Mozart’s stunning final work with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and a collection of sensational soloists. -
Saturday, April 5th, 2025 at 8:00pm, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann perform Elgar, and Dima Slobodeniouk returns to conduct Hailstork and Stravinsky. -
Saturday, April 12th, 2025 at 8:00pm, cellist Yo-Yo Ma returns to Symphony Hall for an all Shostakovich program, kicking off the Boston Symphony Orchestra's "Decoding Shostkovich" series. -
Saturday, April 19th, 2025 at 8:00pm, the Boston Symphony Orchestra welcomes back pianist Mitsuko Uchida for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, and Andris Nelsons conducts Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15 in the second concert of the BSO's "Decoding Shostakovich" series. -
Saturday, April 26th, 2025 at 8:00pm, the BSO continues their "Decoding Shostakovich" series with his Symphony No. 6, and Stravinsky’s "Symphony of Psalms." -
Saturday, May 3rd, 2025 at 8:00pm the BSO’s "Decoding Shostakovich" series concludes with his Violin Concerto No. 1 and Symphony No. 8.
Previous and On Demand Broadcasts
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Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a cast headlined by Christine Goerke and David Butt Philip in Erich Korngold’s opera “Die tote Stadt” (“The Dead City”), a longing farewell to the Romantic Era. -
The Boston Symphony’s Beethoven cycle, led by Music Director Andris Nelsons, culminates with the playful Symphony No. 8 and the Symphony No. 9, featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and a stellar cast of soloists in its iconic final movement, the “Ode to Joy.” -
The Boston Symphony’s Beethoven journey reaches the Symphony No. 6, the Pastoral Symphony, and the rhythmically charged Symphony No. 7. -
In a special Friday night broadcast of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons conducts Beethoven’s lyric and joyful Symphony No. 4 and the mighty Symphony No. 5. -
Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the first part of an epic journey through all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies, including the transformative "Eroica." -
Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony in “The Brightness of Light,” by Kevin Puts, with soprano Renée Fleming and baritone Rod Gilfry, as well as two works by Mozart. -
In an encore broadcast, Venezuelan conductor Domingo Hindoyan makes his BSO debut leading the American premiere of Roberto Sierra's Symphony No. 6, and Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández makes his BSO debut in Edward Elgar’s regal and impassioned Cello Concerto. -
In an encore broadcast, Seiji Ozawa leads the BSO in a magical ballet score for the season that expresses the innocence of childhood and the drama of transformation, sprinkled with musical delights and passion. -
In an encore broadcast, Elder leads the BSO in Ravel's "Mother Goose" and Dvořák's "The Noonday Witch," as well as a new work by Elena Langer featuring cellist Blaise Déjardin and Janáček's spectacular Sinfonietta. -
In an encore broadcast, the youngest-ever Gold Medalist at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is the soloist in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, lead by Tugan Sokhiev.
More on the BSO and Tanglewood
To learn more about hearing BSO concerts in person, visit the BSO Box Office.
Hear the BSO Channel in the player above, or listen on the CRB Classical app.
Learn more about the 2024-2025 season at Symphony Hall.
Learn more about the legacy of BSO Music Director Serge Koussevitzky for the 150th anniversary of his birth.
Read an appreciation of the late Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Laureate of the BSO.
Watch Beyond the Baton: A Conductor's Journey, a PBS profile of Thomas Wilkins, BSO Artistic Advisor for Education and Community Engagement.