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 ...

On WCRB In Concert with the Museum of Fine Arts, the Parker Quartet plays string quartets by Debussy and Ravel with a historic violin.

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.

On The Bach Hour, John Eliot Gardiner leads the Monteverdi Soloists and English Baroque Soloists in the composer's reflection on the Archangel's confrontation with the Dragon.

Sunday, September 27th, 2026 at 7:00pm, on WCRB In Concert with the Museum of Fine Arts, the Parker Quartet plays string quartets by Debussy and Ravel with a historic violin.

The BSO performs Elena Firsova’s and Sofia Gubaidulina’s Prologue, a BSO co-commission, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 7—the only Mahler symphony Andris Nelsons has yet to conduct with the BSO.

A performance at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition leads to a thriving concert career, and Philippe Herreweghe leads the Cantata No. 161 on The Bach Hour.

Tune in to GBH Music's Jazz on 89.7 Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays starting at 9pm.

Tune in to GBH Music's Jazz on 89.7 Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays starting at 9pm.

On WCRB In Concert, the ISQ, founded in 2019 at the Juilliard School, performs the music of Haydn and Mendelssohn at The Breakers Mansion in Newport, RI.

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.

On The Bach Hour, the vast sonic landscape of Gustav Mahler's musical language transforms selections from Bach's Orchestral Suites in a performance by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and conductor R...

On WCRB In Concert with H+H, Jonathan Cohen leads a program of dazzling 17th and 18th-century dance music!

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.

On The Bach Hour, Philippe Herreweghe leads a work that grapples with oppositional forces of light and dark, and pianist Igor Levit performs the composer's Partita No. 2.

On WCRB In Concert with GBH Music, the two-time Grammy-nominated Neave Trio closes out GBH Music’s 2025-2026 season with "American Mosaics," a program celebrating the diverse voices that have shaped, ...

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," and pianist Yuja Wang is the so...

On The Bach Hour, Petra Müllejans and Gottfried von der Goltz are the soloists in the composer's irresistible Concerto for Two Violins, and Ton Koopman conducts the Cantata No. 47.

For violinist María Dueñas, every violin has a memory, infusing it with energy from whoever has played it before. In her new recording, "Homage to Heifetz," Dueñas pays loving tribute to one of the gr...

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.

The mandolin virtuoso talks with host Brian McCreath about the rich musical environment of his childhood, what led him to the mandolin, and the role Bach's music plays in his artistic life.

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.”

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-...

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 an...

On The Bach Hour, the words of one of today's most eloquent pianists illuminate his performance of the composer's Partita No. 3, and Konrad Junghänel conducts the Missa Brevis in G minor.

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.

Multi-Grammy, Emmy, and Oscar winner Jon Batiste tells Julia Marcus about his upcoming release "Black Mozart," which "reimagines the classical tradition through a Black American musical lens."

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 ...

YouTube video by r c

On The Bach Hour, an artist of uncommon insight interprets - and talks about - one of Bach's most imposing compositions, and Martin Pearlman leads Boston Baroque in Magnificat.

Tanglewood Festival. Renaud Capuçon, violin, Yo-Yo Ma, cello and host, Emanuel Ax, piano, Berkshire Lyric and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Samy Rachid perform: FAURÉ: Cantique de Jean…

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 comp...

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 music...

Ahead of "We The People," a week-long festival he curated for the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma speaks about the power of practicing gratitude, music's role in re...

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.

After 250 years, it’s safe to say that America has found its footing when it comes to classical music. From the earliest colonial-era fife and drum tunes, to full length contemporary operas, here are ...

On The Bach Hour, Rudolf Lutz conducts the composer's Cantata 168, in which fearsome metaphors from the natural world are answered by allusions to eternity.

A hopeful, catchy, summer's breeze in this month's Instant Replay.

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 Sar...

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.

Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the Boston Symphony in the passionate Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and Sibelius's Symphony No. 7, as well as Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 with soloist Yefim Bronfman.

On The Bach Hour, soprano Malin Hartelius and trumpeter Niklas Eklund are the soloists in a work marked by virtuosity, deep soulfulness, and ravishing exuberance.

In the final part of a concert series led by Music Director Andris Nelsons pairing works by Mozart and Tchaikovsky, Himari makes her BSO debut as the soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1, followe...

In the second of a three-concert series pairing music by Mozart and Tchaikovsky, Paul Lewis is the soloist Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27, part of a program led by Music Director Andris Nelsons that c...

BSO Artist-in-Residence Augustin Hadelich is the soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 in a program that also includes Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 3, all led by Andris Nelsons in the first of a thr...

Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Haydn’s “Philosopher” Symphony, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2, and Shostakovich’s First Piano Concerto, with soloist Daniil Trifonov and trumpeter Th...

Iconic Japanese composer and conductor Joe Hisaishi leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in his own music as well as Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, with soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.