CRB Classical

07/09/2025

This Friday night at 8pm, hear the Boston Symphony Orchestra, vocal soloists, and actors from Bill Barclay’s Concert Theatre Works perform "Romeo and Juliet: A Theatrical Concert for Orchestra and Actors," live from the Tanglewood Music Festival!

Listen on-air, on our app, or online with our link in the comments.

07/07/2025

For this week's Focus at 4, we're celebrating home! Often times, home is more than just a place. It’s a feeling, a sanctuary, a collection of loved ones... and sometimes, it really is just a super cozy place. In honor of all the different kinds of home, tune in weekdays at 4pm with Greg Ferrisi to hear:

Monday, 7/7 - Enrique Granados's Galician Song Suite: "Homesickness," with Pablo González and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

Tuesday, 7/8 - Johannes Brahms's "On the Danube, There Stands a House," with Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhausorchester

Wednesday, 7/9 - John Dowland's "My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home," with Ronn McFarlane and William Simms

Thursday, 7/10 - Ludwig van Beethoven's "Consecration of the House Overture," with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic

Friday, 7/11 - Antonín Dvořák's "My Home Overture," with Libor Pešek and the Česká filharmonie

Vincent van Gogh's "The Bedroom," 1889. This painting is currently featured in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's "Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits" Exhibition.

07/07/2025

On this week's episode of The Bach Hour with Brian McCreath, Richard Egarr leads the Academy of Ancient Music in one of Bach's most iconic works, and Boston's Emmanuel Music traverses the earthly and divine in Bach's Cantata No. 2. Listen with the link in the comments!

07/04/2025

Mickey and pals bring music to Mother Nature, and spark an animation revolution. Hear it (and watch it) here:

Mickey and pals bring music to Mother Nature, and spark an animation revolution.

07/03/2025

Sunday at 7pm (in our first Sunday broadcast of the Tanglewood Music Festival season!), Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in an All-Beethoven program featuring pianist Yefim Bronfman.

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

Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in an All-Beethoven program featuring pianist Yefim Bronfman.

07/03/2025

Come work with us! We're hiring a Content Producer, who will play a central role in creating and delivering high-quality classical and jazz content across radio, digital, and live platforms.

More details/apply here: https://bit.ly/4l9ZFYO

07/02/2025

Who's excited for the first Tanglewood broadcast of the season?!

Kick off the 2025 Tanglewood Music Festival with us this Saturday at 8pm! The Boston Symphony Orchestra plays an all-Rachmaninoff program featuring his Third Piano Concerto, with soloist Daniil Trifonov.

Tune in on-air, on our app, or online with the link below. Happy Summer!

07/01/2025

Whether wistful, haunting, or playful, summer's here, and stompin' to the beat. Check out what we've been stompin' to lately with our newest Instant Replay:

Whether wistful, haunting, or playful, summer's here, and stompin' to the beat.

07/01/2025

Happy July! Starting today, we're launching a new project with The Trustees: at three Trustees sites, you'll find a sign with a QR code that takes you to music curated especially for that site, by CRB's Edyn-Mae Stevenson. Details in the comments below!



Pictured at The Old Manse:

07/01/2025

Now available to stream on demand -- The Terra String Quartet shares stories of love and passion through lush chamber music by Strauss, Webern, Mendelssohn, and Zemlinsky, on WCRB In Concert with Rockport Music. Listen here:

On WCRB In Concert with Rockport Music, the "Terras" share stories of love and passion through lush chamber music by Strauss, Webern, Mendelssohn, and Zemlinsky.

06/30/2025

On this week's episode of The Bach Hour with Brian McCreath, Masaaki Suzuki leads Bach Collegium Japan in the cantata that includes "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," and Lucas & Arthur Jussen are the soloists in an exuberant work for two pianos. Listen here:

On The Bach Hour, Masaaki Suzuki leads Bach Collegium Japan in the cantata that includes "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," and Lucas and Arthur Jussen are the soloists in an exuberant work for two pianos.