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11/25/2025

Now available on demand: hear the Boston Early Music Festival's centerpiece opera of love, betrayal, and trickery on WCRB In Concert!

Stream Reinhard Keiser's "Octavia: The Roman Rebellion" on our app or online: https://bit.ly/48oCXr4

11/25/2025

Our November Instant Replay is out now! Listen to the songs we've been spinning all month long.

This month, we're sliding into the holiday season with love, longing, and no longer feeling alone.

11/25/2025

Hear Lorna McGhee play the heart-fluttering flute solo with the in Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 this weekend, live from Symphony Hall!

11/24/2025

Happy Thanksgiving! For this week's Focus at 4, we're playing pieces with an Americana flavor. Ahead of your yummy festivities this week, tune in at 4pm with Greg Ferrisi to hear:

Monday, 11/24 - Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" with Joshua Rifkin

Tuesday, 11/25 - "Shenandoah," with JoAnn Falletta and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra

Wednesday, 11/26 - John Williams's "A Hymn to New England," with Kenneth Megan and the United States Coast Guard Band

Thursday, 11/27 - Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring," with Aaron Copland leading the Boston Symphony Orchestra!

Friday, 11/ 28 - Virgil Thomson's "Autumn," with Neville Marriner and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

11/24/2025

On this week's episode of The Bach Hour with Brian McCreath, Beatrice Rana describes the origin of her passion for Bach's music as she grew up in southern Italy, and Philippe Herreweghe conducts the Cantata No. 29. Listen on our app or online:

On The Bach Hour, Rana describes the origin of her passion for Bach's music as she grew up in southern Italy, and Philippe Herreweghe conducts the Cantata No. 29, "Wir danken dir, Gott."

11/22/2025

Two queens. One emperor. And a battle for the future of Rome.

Sunday at 7pm on In Concert with , hear the magnificent 2025 Centerpiece Opera, “Octavia,” with , Amanda Forsythe, and ! More info at classical.org/inconcert.

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11/21/2025

Meet David O'Leary: private pilot, marathoner, and CRB's morning host!

Read about his forty-year career on the Greater Boston airwaves, and what he loves about classical music.

Over the course of a forty-year career on the airwaves, David O’Leary, CRB Classical 99.5’s new morning host, has established himself as a mainstay of Greater Boston radio. Though a lifelong appreciator of classical music, his new role has led him to fall in love with the genre — and he's brin...

11/20/2025

Sunday at 7pm on WCRB In Concert with the Boston Early Music Festival, the power of love and trickery rewrite history in Reinhard Keiser's opera “Octavia: The Roman Rebellion."

Listen on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/4r8zbdD

11/19/2025

Saturday at 8pm, Anna Handler conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the Violin Concerto by Thomas de Hartmann, with soloist Joshua Bell. After, enjoy the kaleidoscopic brilliance of Mussorgsky’s "Pictures at an Exhibition," arranged by Ravel.

Listen on-air, on our app, or online:

Anna Hander 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

11/18/2025

Now available on demand: hear the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform the highly anticipated world premiere of Tania León’s "Time to Time"!

After, Dima Slobodeniouk conducts Roberto Sierra’s Concerto for Saxophones and Orchestra with soloist James Carter, followed by Brahms’s Second Symphony. Listen on our app or online:

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.

11/17/2025

We don't know about you, but this week we're busy in the kitchen. Ahead of Thanksgiving weekend, tune in weekdays at 4pm with Greg Ferrisi to get some culinary inspiration:

Monday, 11/17 - Henry Playfords's "Cook's Humor" with The Playfords

Tuesday, 11/18 - "Nuttmigs and Ginger" with The Musicians of Swanne Alley

Wednesday, 11/19 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker: Chocolate (Spanish Dance)" with Stevan Pasero

Thursday, 11/20 - W.A. Mozart's "Bread and Butter," with Jenny Lin

Friday, 11/21 - Juan del Encina's "Today we eat, today we drink" with the LAGQ

Adrian van Utrecht's 1644 painting "Banquet Still Life."

11/16/2025

On this week's episode of The Bach Hour with Brian McCreath, Concerto Italiano & Rinaldo Alessandrini perform unique re-imaginings of Bach's music, and Konrad Junghänel conducts the Missa Brevis in F. Listen here:

On The Bach Hour, conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini leads his Italian ensemble in unique re-imaginings of the composer's music, and Konrad Junghänel conducts the Missa Brevis in F.