The Boston Symphony Orchestra
Saturdays at 8pm
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.
Upcoming Broadcast Schedule
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Saturday, November 14th, 2026 at 8:00pm, in the second of a two-part two exploration, Eric Jacobsen conducts "Creation," a BSO-commissioned work by Osvaldo Golijov and David Henry Hwang, featuring Cécile McLorin Salvant, Davóne Tines, Kayhan Kalhor, and Cyro Baptista. -
Saturday, November 21st, 2026 at 8:00pm, Samy Rachid leads the Boston Symphoyn Orchestra in a concert of German Romantic masterworks: the Overture from Carl Maria von Weber’s opera Oberon, Robert Schumann’s “Spring” Symphony, and Felix Mendelssohn’s dazzling Piano Concerto No. 1 featuring Jan Lisiecki. -
Saturday, November 28th, 2026 at 8:00pm, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet is the soloist in George Gershwin’s blues-inflected Piano Concerto in F, and conductor Kazuki Yamada makes his Symphony Hall debut with two of Ottorino Respighi’s colorful homages to Rome. -
Saturday, December 5th, 2026 at 8:00pm, in an encore Boston Symphony broadcast, Hadelich is the soloist in one of the most dynamic and fascinating concertos of our time, and Andris Nelsons conducts Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. -
Saturday, December 12th, 2026 at 8:00pm, in an encore broadcast, Nodoka Okisawa 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. -
Saturday, December 19th, 2026 at 8:00pm, in an encore broadcast, 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." -
Saturday, December 26th, 2026 at 8:00pm, in an encore broadcast, 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.
Previous and On Demand Broadcasts
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In the first of a two-part series exploring themes of creation, Philippe Jordan leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in Haydn’s oratorio "The Creation," with soprano Louise Alder, tenor Bogdan Volkov, and bass-baritone David Steffens. -
Ma joins Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Edward Elgar’s monumental Cello Concerto, on a program including Brahms’s final symphony and Arturs Maskats's "Tango." -
Kent Nagano leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides Overture, Mendelssohn's "Reformation" Symphony, and two premieres. -
Hilary Hahn and cellist Seth Parker Woods are the soloists in BSO Composer Chair Carlos Simon’s Double Concerto Suite, part of a program that includes selections from Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” and “The Nutcracker.” -
Kirill Gerstein is the soloist in a new piano concerto by Spanish composer Francisco Coll, and Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in Beethoven’s “Coriolan” Overture and Symphony No. 7. -
Cho returns to Symphony Hall for Rachmaninoff’s "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini," and the Boston Symphony Orchestra closes the program with Rachmaninoff’s melodically rich Symphony No. 2, all led by Andris Nelsons. -
The BSO performs Elena Firsova’s and Sofia Gubaidulina’s "Prolog," a BSO co-commission, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 7—the only Mahler symphony Andris Nelsons has yet to conduct with the BSO. -
Ax joins Andris Nelsons and the BSO to perform one of his favorite Mozart Piano Concertos: No. 22. Also on the program is Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, an obsessive ode to unrequited love. -
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. -
In an encore broadcast, Domingo Hindoyan leads the BSO in Aaron Copland’s Third Symphony, widely considered the "greatest American symphony," and pianist Yuja Wang is the soloist in Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto.
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 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.