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The Boston Symphony Orchestra
Saturdays and Mondays at 8pm
Hosted by Brian McCreath

CRB brings you performances at Symphony Hall, with host Brian McCreath, on Saturdays at 8pm.

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Learn more about the 2024 summer season at Tanglewood and 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.

Watch Beyond the Baton: A Conductor's Journey, a PBS profile of Thomas Wilkins, BSO Artistic Advisor for Education and Community Engagement.

Upcoming Broadcasts Previous and On-Demand Broadcasts
Upcoming Broadcasts
  • Daniil Trifonov performs the Brahms First Piano Concerto with Andris Nelsons and the BSO
    Trifonov, Nelsons, and the BSO
    In an encore broadcast from the 2023 Tanglewood season, Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Wynton Marsalis's "Herald, Holler, and Hallelujah," Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, and pianist Daniil Trifonov joins for Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3.
  • Collage of Reginald Mobley, Erin Morley, and Will Liverman. Mobley standing on left side, smiles facing straight, Morley sitting in center, smiles facing right, Liverman standing on right, with hands in blazer pockets, faces right looking stern.
    “Carmina Burana,” with Nelsons and the BSO at Tanglewood
    In an encore broadcast from the 2023 Tanglewood season, Andris Nelsons leads the BSO and Tanglewood Festival Chorus in Beethoven's "Leonore" Overture No. 3 and Orff's "Carmina Burana," starring acclaimed soloists Reginald Mobley, Erin Morley, and Will Liverman.
  • Collage of Jeff Midkiff (holding mandolin in left hand and smiling) and Thomas Wilkins (sitting, holding baton, and smiling)
    Midkiff and Wilkins with the BSO at Tanglewood
    In an encore broadcast from the 2023 Tanglewood season, Thomas Wilkins leads the BSO at Tanglewood, with music by Duke Ellington, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Jeff Midkiff is the soloist in his own Mandolin Concerto "From the Blue Ridge."
  • Xian Zhang, body turned to her right, faces straight with a neutral expression
    Copland and Dvorák at Tanglewood, with Xian Zhang and the BSO
    In an encore broadcast from the 2023 Tanglewood season, Xian Zhang leads the BSO in a pastoral program including Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring" and Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World."
  • Collage of Martin Helmchen (in portrait, standing and facing straight ahead in black suit) and David Afkham (sitting, smiling, and holding baton facing downward daintily in right hand)
    Mozart and Wagner, with Afkham, Helmchen, and the BSO at Tanglewood
    In an encore broadcast from the 2023 Tanglewood season, David Afkham conducts the BSO in Mozart and Wagner, with Martin Helmchen as the soloist.
  • Joshua Bell
    Joshua Bell, Paganini, and the BSO at Tanglewood
    In an encore broadcast from the 2023 Tanglewood season, Anna Rakitina conducts the BSO in Prokofiev's Suite from "Romeo and Juliet," as well as Ellen Reid's "When the World as You've Known It Doesn't Exist," and Joshua Bell is the soloist in Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1.
  • Collage of Susanna Mälkki (sitting in backwards chair, left hand resting on head of chair, smiling and facing right) and Seong-Jin Cho (sitting, facing straight with neutral expression, head slightly tilted to his right)
    Mozart and Bartók with Mälkki and the BSO
    In an encore broadcast from the 2023 Tanglewood season, Susanna Mälkki guest conducts the BSO in Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, and Seong-Jin Cho is the soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9.
  • Jean-Yves Thibaudet
    Saint-Saëns and Gershwin with Thibaudet and the BSO, at Tanglewood
    In an encore broadcast from the 2023 Tanglewood season, Andris Nelson leads the BSO in Carlos Simon's "Four Black American Dances" and piano concertos by Gershwin and Saint-Saëns with soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
Previous and On-Demand Broadcasts
  • Close up view of a nutcracker doll
    The Boston Symphony and Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker"
    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.
  • Golda Schultz (left) leans on one elbow and smiles at the camera, and Anne-Sophie Mutter (right) faces right and plays her violin
    A Tribute to Sibelius, with Mutter, Schultz, and the BSO
    In an encore broadcast, Anne-Sophie Mutter is the soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Thomas Adès’s "Air," a work inspired by Sibelius. Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Sibelius’s "Luonnotar," with soprano Golda Schultz, and in his Symphony No. 5.
  • Jean-Yves Thibaudet
    The Voyages of Saint-Saëns, with Thibaudet, Shani, and the BSO
    In an encore broadcast, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins the Boston Symphony for Saint-Saëns’s virtuosic "Egyptian" Concerto, and Israeli conductor Lahav Shani leads the BSO in his Symphony Hall debut with Prokofiev’s "Classical" Symphony and Rachmaninoff’s dazzling "Symphonic Dances."
  • Seong-Jin Cho, facing left, leans one elbow on the upright piano and plays the keys with his other hand
    Seong-Jin Cho Plays Ravel with Nelsons and the BSO
    In an encore broadcast, renowned South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho is the soloist in Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, and Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony in Caroline Shaw’s meditative "Punctum" and Stravinsky’s "Petrushka."
  • Steven Banks sits against a dark gray backdrop surrounded by four saxophones of different sizes. He wears a cerulean blue suit with a white shirt and silver tie. He has short black hair that's faded on the sides and he wears round glasses. He looks off to the right of frame, smiling as if he's just laughed.
    Steven Banks's BSO Debut
    Banks is the soloist in Henri Tomasi’s sultry, atmospheric Saxophone Concerto, and Earl Lee conducts two works that explore the power of fate, César Franck’s Le Chasseur maudit, or "The Cursed Hunter," and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.
  • A collage of conductor Thomas Adès and pianist Kirill Gerstein. On the left, an action shot of Adès conducting. He has his arms raised with one hand holding a baton and the other reaching out, as if he's trying to carry the sound of the orchestra. He wears a black polo against a black background. On the right, Gerstein looks over his shoulder at the camera, smiling softly. He's wearing a white dress shirt that's unbuttoned at the top with a black blazer. He stands against a cream-colored wall.
    Adès and Gerstein Celebrate Ligeti's 100th Birthday
    Kirill Gerstein is the soloist in György Ligeti's kaleidoscopic Piano Concerto in a celebration of the Hungarian composer's centennial, and Thomas Adès leads the BSO in Stravinsky’s "Orpheus," Franz Liszt’s "Les Préludes," and Adès's own "Tevot."
  • Conductor Hannu Lintu leans back in a light brown leather chair and looks to a window out of frame. He's wearing a black long-sleeve shirt and he has short, silver hair. There's a piano behind him covered in sheet music. On the floor, there's a large violet rug, upon which his dog lays.
    Grief, Faith, and Transcendence, with Lintu and the Boston Symphony
    Hannu Lintu leads the BSO in Peter Lieberson’s "Drala" and Schumann’s Symphony No. 4, as well as Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto, with soloist Leonidas Kavakos.
  • Joana Mallwitz conducts Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 with Anna Vinnitskaya and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
    The BSO Debuts of Mallwitz and Vinnitskaya
    Performing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the first time, Joana Mallwitz conducts Kodály’s "Dances of Galánta" and Schubert's Symphony No. 9, and Anna Vinnitskaya, also in her debut, is the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s beloved Piano Concerto No. 1.
  • Earl Lee (left) and Eric Lu (right) face the camera.
    Schumann, Mozart, and Chin, with Lee and the BSO
    In an encore broadcast, BSO Assistant Conductor Earl Lee conducts Unsuk Chin’s powerful tribute to Beethoven, "subito con forza," and Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 2, as well as Mozart’s brooding Piano Concerto No. 20, with soloist Eric Lu in his Boston Symphony debut.
  • Paul Lewis sits in front of a charcoal background in a blue button-up. He rests his head on his palm and looks at the camera, smoldering. He has dark blue eyes and curly, black hair.
    Paul Lewis and Beethoven's "Emperor," with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with soloist Paul Lewis, as well as Hannah Kendall’s "The Spark Catchers" and James Lee III’s "Freedom’s Genuine Dawn," with narrator Thomas Warfield.
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