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Past "In Concert" Broadcasts
Sunday nights at 7pm

In Concert captures the wealth of incredible music being performed in and around the Boston area, from the Handel and Haydn Society to A Far Cry, from the Gardner Museum to Rockport Music, and beyond. See a full list of broadcast partners here.

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Latest Episodes
  • Mistral
    Mistral, Mahler, and Flights of Fancy
    On WCRB In Concert with Mistral, highlights from two different performances make for a unexpected blend of the light-hearted and sublime, through works by Mozart, Dohnányi, Mahler, and Louis Spohr.
  • Photos of musicians from Chameleon Arts Ensemble in performance. Clockwise from top left: Sarah Rommel, cello; Gary Gorczyca, clarinet; Deborah Boldin, flute; Mary Mackenzie, soprano; Scott Woolweaver, viola; Nancy Dimock, oboe; Mika Sasaki, piano.
    Silver-Sweet Sound, with Chameleon Arts Ensemble
    On WCRB In Concert with Chameleon Arts Ensemble, music inspired by William Shakespeare takes center stage in colorful works by Korngold, Vaughan Williams, Thomas Adès, and David Matthews, alongside Elgar's Piano Quintet in A minor, his portrait of the majestic beauty of the English countryside, on demand.
  • Martin Helmchen
    Martin Helmchen's Bach Partitas, with Celebrity Series of Boston
    On WCRB In Concert with the Celebrity Series of Boston, the German pianist plays four of J.S. Bach's intricate, poetic Keyboard Partitas.
  • wide landscape view of rolling hills and partly cloudy skies over Yorkshire Dales in England
    The Light and Shadow of English Chamber Music, from BCMS
    On WCRB In Concert with the Boston Chamber Music Society, works by Vaughan Williams, Britten, and Bliss paint a deeply textured picture of 20th-century British music.
  • The vocal ensemble Blue Heron stands outside leaving against stone pillars.
    Blue Heron's "Christmas in Medieval England"
    On WCRB In Concert with Blue Heron, the acclaimed vocal ensemble transports us to the 1440s through carols, plainchant, hymns, and mass settings for the season.
  • Keith Lockhart stands on stage with and the Boston Pops. Symphony Hall is decorated in red and white lights.
    Holiday Pops 2023!
    Keith Lockhart conducts the Boston Pops in a program of holiday music old and new through traditional carols, Pops classics, and a special visit from one jolly, old fellow!
  • Jonathan Cohen stands at the podium with his hand raised high above him. He gazes upwards and smiles.
    Hallelujah! Handel and Haydn Society's "Messiah"
    On WCRB In Concert with the Handel and Haydn Society, Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen leads the H+H Orchestra, Chorus, and a slate of spectacular soloists in a centuries-old Boston tradition.
  • A collage of Stewart Goodyear performing as the pianist soloist in his composition "Callaloo: A Caribbean suite for piano and orchestra," and Chineke! Orchestra's conductor Andrew Grams
    "Unbridled Joy," with the Chineke! Orchestra in Boston
    On WCRB In Concert with the Celebrity Series of Boston, Britain’s Chineke! Orchestra performs music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Florence Price, and Stewart Goodyear is the pianist in his own work, "Callaloo: A Caribbean Suite."
  • Vox Luminis
    Vox Luminis Sings Handel and Bach in Boston
    On WCRB In Concert with the Boston Early Music Festival, the Belgian ensemble Vox Luminis joins the BEMF Orchestra in Handel's Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day and Bach's Magnificat at Jordan Hall.
  • Joshua Weilerstein stands outside and looks at the camera, softly smiling. Piers Lane wears a suit and has his arms folded up on the piano in front of him. He looks upwards, off camera. Mistral includes ten musicians, and all of them stands outside against a stone wall and smile at the camera. The four string players of the Pacifica Quartet wear black and pose with their instruments, all smizing at the camera.
    From Rockport to Concord with Wagner, Prokofiev, Chopin, and Beethoven
    On WCRB In Concert, Joshua Weilerstein leads the Phoenix Orchestra in Beethoven's Seventh Symphony in Boston, Mistral performs Wagner in Brookline, Piers Lane plays Chopin in Rockport, and the Pacifica Quartet plays Prokofiev in Concord.
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