CRB brings you performances from the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, with host Brian McCreath, Saturdays at 8pm, with encore broadcasts on Mondays at 8pm. Find our BSO broadcast schedule and stream on-demand concerts below.
Hear and read a preview of the 2026-2027 season at Symphony Hall.
Hear and read a preview of the 2026 summer season at Tanglewood.
To learn more about hearing BSO concerts in person, visit the BSO Box Office.
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Sunday, August 23rd, 2026 at 7:00pm, Gustavo Gimeno leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and a stellar cast of soloists in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and its inspirational “Ode to Joy.” -
Saturday, August 29th, 2026 at 8:00pm, in an encore broadcast, the Boston Symphony Orchestra launches their 2025-2026 season with the music by Mozart and Strauss, conducted by Music Director Andris Nelsons. -
Saturday, September 5th, 2026 at 8:00pm, in an encore broadcast, Domingo Hindoyan returns to Symphony Hall to lead the BSO in Aaron Copland’s Third Symphony, widely considered the "greatest American symphony." -
Saturday, September 12th, 2026 at 8:00pm, in an encore broadcast, Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, sung by soprano Nikola Hillebrand, as well as Debussy’s Nocturnes with Lorelei Ensemble.
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Thomas Wilkins conducts the first BSO performance of Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2, with soloist Randall Goosby in his Tanglewood debut, part of a program that also includes Bernstein’s life-affirming "Chichester Psalms" and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8. -
Soprano Renée Fleming and baritone Thomas Hampson sing selections from John Adams’s opera “Nixon in China” in a program led by Music Director Andris Nelsons that also includes works by Carlos Simon and Samuel Barber. -
Tanglewood Music Center alum Marin Alsop leads the TMCO in Bruch’s First Violin Concerto, with soloist Ray Chen, as well as Anna Clyne’s "Masquerade" and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. -
In an encore broadcast, John Williams’ Film Night returns with a fabulous program of film music highlights specially curated by Pops Conductor Laureate Williams himself and featuring Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops. -
Anna Handler leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a program that includes Christopher Rountree’s "For Martha (Variations on a Theme of Leonard Bernstein)," Aaron Copland’s "Appalachian Spring," and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. -
In the final part of a three-concert series curated by Yo-Yo Ma, Grammy-winning vocalist Arooj Aftab joins Ma in John Tavener’s Mahámátar, followed by Kayhan Kalhor’s Venus in the Mirror with the composer and cellist Karen Ouzounian, and Osvaldo Golijov’s Azul with BSO cellist Christine Lee. -
In the second of three BSO concerts curated by Yo-Yo Ma, the cellist explores the vibrancy of American music and its reflection of the triumphs, tragedies, and vitality of our country with roots musicians Aoife O'Donovan and Jennifer Kreisberg. -
In the first of three BSO concerts curated by Yo-Yo Ma, he and violinist Renaud Capuçon are the soloists in the Double Concerto by Brahms, part of a program led by Samy Rachid. -
Longtime BSO-collaborator Bell returns to Tanglewood as the violin soloist in Max Bruch’s virtuosic “Scottish Fantasy,” and Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Robert Schumann’s “Rhenish” Symphony and Sarah Kirkland Snider’s "Marmoris." -
Soprano Nikola Hillebrand is Susanna and baritone Michael Sumuel is Figaro as the Boston Symphony and Music Director Andris Nelsons perform one of Mozart’s most endearingly captivating operas.
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 2026-2027 season at Symphony Hall.
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.