The Boston Symphony Orchestra

Saturdays at 8pm

Hosted by Brian McCreath

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.

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Upcoming Broadcast Schedule

Seong-Jin Cho, the BSO, and Tchaikovsky

Saturday, January 17th, 2026 at 8:00pm, pianist Seong-Jin Cho returns to Symphony Hall as the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, bookended by Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Allison Loggins-Hull’s Rhapsody on a Theme by Joni for flute and orchestra, with BSO Principal Flute Lorna McGhee.
The BSO Celebrates John Williams, with Emanuel Ax and Gil Shaham

Saturday, January 24th, 2026 at 8:00pm, the Boston Symphony Orchestra celebrates one of America’s greatest and most expansive composers with an all-John Williams program, featuring pianist Emanuel Ax performing the Boston premiere of Williams’s Piano Concerto and violinist Gil Shaham performing in TreeSong and the Theme from “Schindler’s List.
Carlos Simon’s “Good News Mass,” with Wilkins and the BSO

Saturday, January 31st, 2026 at 8:00pm, BSO Conductor Thomas Wilkins leads the Boston premiere of Good News Mass, a new co-commission by Composer Chair Carlos Simon, and David Lang’s poor hymnal, featuring The Crossing.
Anna Handler Leads the BSO in Mozart and Tchaikovsky

Saturday, February 7th, 2026 at 8:00pm, BSO Assistant Conductor Anna Handler leads the orchestra in Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante, with Concertmaster Nathan Cole and Principal Viola Steven Ansell as soloists, as well as Gabriella Smith’s "Bioluminescence Chaconne" and Tchaikovsky's Suite from "Swan Lake."
Esa-Pekka Salonen, the BSO and Bruckner’s “Romantic”

Saturday, February 14th, 2026 at 8:00pm, Salonen leads the Boston Symphony in his own Horn Concerto, with soloist Stefan Dohr, a piece inspired by Bruckner’s soaring Symphony No. 4, the “Romantic” Symphony.
Elgar’s Violin Concerto with Frank Peter Zimmermann

Saturday, February 21st, 2026 at 8:00pm in an encore broadcast, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann perform Elgar, and Dima Slobodeniouk returns to conduct Hailstork and Stravinsky.
Blomstedt Conducts an All-Brahms Program with the BSO

Saturday, March 7th, 2026 at 8:00pm, nonagenarian Swedish conductor Herbert Blomstedt returns to Symphony Hall to lead an All-Brahms program, including "Nänie" and "Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny)" with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and his Fourth Symphony.
Mozart’s Requiem with Dima Slobodeniouk and the BSO

Saturday, March 14th, 2026 at 8:00pm in an encore broadcast, the Boston Symphony Orchestra performs Mozart’s stunning final work with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and a collection of sensational soloists.
The Romance of Schumann, with Yunchan Lim and the BSO

Saturday, March 21st, 2026 at 8:00pm, pianist Yunchan Lim reunites with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Andris Nelsons in Robert Schumann’s sweepingly dramatic Piano Concerto, followed by Tchaikovsky’s “Manfred” Symphony.
"Revolución diamantina" with The Crossing, Giancarlo Guerrero, & Alban Gerhardt

Saturday, March 28th, 2026 at 8:00pm in an encore broadcast, Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Gabriela Ortiz’s "Revolución diamantina," and the Boston Symphony Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky's tumultuous "Francesca da Rimini."
Mao Fujita’s BSO Debut

Saturday, April 4th, 2026 at 8:00pm, Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra welcome rising star Mao Fujita as the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, part of a program that also includes the U.S. premiere of Outi Tarkiainen’s “Day Night Day” and Sibelius’s rarely heard Symphony No. 1.
Mälkki, the Jussens, and a BSO World Premiere

Saturday, April 18th, 2026 at 8:00pm, Dutch duo-pianists Lucas and Arthur Jussen perform a BSO-commissioned piece written for them by American composer Andrew Norman, and Susanna Mälkki leads the BSO in Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances and Ravel’s Mother Goose suite.
Boreyko Conducts Scriabin, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Prokofiev, with Kissin

Saturday, April 25th, 2026 at 8:00pm, in his first appearance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 2015, pianist Evgeny Kissin plays piano concertos by Scriabin and Mozart, and Andrey Boreyko conducts works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Liadov.
Slobodeniouk and Beethoven’s Ninth, with the BSO and TFC

Saturday, May 2nd, 2026 at 8:00pm, Dima Slobodeniouk leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood Festival Chorus in John Adams’s “Harmonium” and, with four stellar soloists, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and its “Ode to Joy.”

Previous and On Demand Broadcasts

Samuel Barber’s “Vanessa,” with the BSO

Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra launch a multi-concert exploration of American music with Barber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning opera “Vanessa,” in collaboration with Boston Lyric Opera.
Nelsons, the BSO, and Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand”

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, a collection of stellar soloists, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus joined by the Boys of the St. Paul’s Choir School perform Mahler’s spiritually optimistic Eighth Symphony.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Joshua Bell, the BSO, and de Hartmann’s Violin Concerto

Anna Handler conducts 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."
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.
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.