For decades, New England Public Radio has partnered with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and WGBH Boston to air live broadcasts from Tanglewood, the BSO’s summer home in Lenox, Massachusetts, every Sunday afternoon of the season on 88.5FM WFCR. This year, the Sunday afternoon tradition has grown into a weekend-long affair; NEPR is excited to add music from Tanglewood to our Saturday afternoon line-up as well! Beginning at 1:00 p.m., Saturday’s broadcasts will feature performances from the previous week at Tanglewood, and some major star-power, including Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma and others throughout the summer.
The Tanglewood broadcast season gets underway this Sunday, July 10 at 2:00 p.m. with a special Boston Pops Orchestra concert, featuring conductor Keith Lockhart and famed actor, writer, director, and vocalist Seth MacFarlane performing both classics and hidden gems from the Great American Songbook. Live BSO concerts begin the following week on July 17 and continue every Sunday through August 28 with a start time of 2:30 p.m.
Saturday afternoons on WFCR will include music from Tanglewood beginning Saturday, July 16 with Opening Night at Tanglewood, featuring violinist Joshua Bell (recorded July 8). Subsequent broadcasts continue every Saturday at 1:00PM through September 3.
The final concert of the season, Tanglewood on Parade (recorded August 2), will air on Sunday, September 4 at 2:30 p.m.
There’s nothing like spending a summer afternoon or evening in the Berkshires attending a world class concert,” said NEPR classical host Walter Carroll. “Great soloists like Jonathan Biss, Paul Lewis, Augustin Hadelich and Lisa Batiashvili, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and of course the Boston Symphony Orchestra. And I have spent many happy Sunday afternoons in my own yard with live broadcasts of the concerts. It’s second only to being there.”
Tanglewood broadcasts can be heard on 88.5FM and and throughout the Berkshires on: 101.1FM (Adams/North Adams), 98.7FM (Great Barrington), 98.3FM (Lee), 106.1FM (Pittsfield/Lenox), and 96.3FM (Williamstown).
Complete Tanglewood Broadcast Season on WFCR:
Sunday, July 10 at 2:00 p.m. (Live)
Boston Pops Orchestra with very special guest Seth MacFarlane
Boston Pops Orchestra
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Seth MacFarlane, soloist
Songs from the American Songbook
Saturday, July 16 at 1:00 p.m. (Pre-recorded Friday, July 8 concert)
Opening Night at Tanglewood
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Jacques Lacombe, conductor
Joshua Bell, violin
RAVEL Alborada del gracioso
SAINT-SAËNS Violin Concerto No. 3
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 5
Sunday, July 17, at 2:30 p.m. (Live)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Gustavo Gimeno, conductor
Yuja Wang, piano
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, Classical
RAVEL Piano Concerto in G
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue
STRAVINSKY Suite from The Firebird (1919 version)
Saturday, July 23, at 1:00 p.m. (Pre-recorded July 15 concert)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Pinchas Zukerman, conductor and violin
ALL-MOZART PROGRAM
Symphony No. 25
Violin Concerto from Serenade in D, K.250, Haffner
Symphony No. 39
Sunday, July 24 at 2:30 p.m. (Live)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Juanjo Mena, conductor
Veronika Eberle, violin
GINASTERA Variaciones concertantes
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 4 in D, K.218
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
Saturday, July 30 at 1:00 p.m. (Pre-recorded July 22 concert)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis, conductor
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5
Sunday, July 31 at 2:30 p.m. (Live)
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Paul Lewis, piano
ALL-BRAHMS PROGRAM
Piano Concerto No. 1
Symphony No. 1
Saturday, August 6 at 1:00 p.m. (Pre-recorded – Concert TBD)
Sunday, August 7 at 2:30 p.m. (Live)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Moritz Gnann, conductor
Nelson Freire, piano
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat, K.271
MAHLER Symphony No. 1
Saturday, August 13 at 1:00 p.m. (Pre-recorded August 5 concert)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano
DVOŘÁK Serenade for Winds
LISZT Piano Concerto No. 2
MAHLER (arr. BRITTEN) What the Wild Flowers Tell Me
BRAHMS Serenade No. 2
Sunday, August 14 at 2:30 p.m. (Live)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
David Afkham, conductor
Igor Levit, piano
BEETHOVEN Coriolan Overture
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4
Saturday, August 20 at 1:00 p.m. (Pre-recorded August 12 concert)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
NICOLAI Overture to The Merry Wives of Windsor
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat, K.482
DEBUSSY La Mer
RAVEL Boléro
Sunday, August 21 at 2:30 p.m. (Live)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Robert Sheena, English horn
Dejan Lazić, piano
BERLIOZ Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict
TSONTAKIS Sonnets, Concerto for English horn and orchestra
SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian
PROKOFIEV Suite from Romeo and Juliet
Saturday, August 27 at 1:00 p.m. (Pre-recorded August 20 concert)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Cast to include
Kristine Opolais, soprano (Aida)
Andrea Carè, tenor (Radames)
Kwangchul Youn, bass (Ramfis)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
VERDI Aida, Acts I and II
Sunday, August 28 at 2:30 p.m. (Live)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor
Rachel Willis-Sørensen, soprano
Ruxandra Donose, mezzo-soprano
Joseph Kaiser, tenor
Günther Groissböck, bass
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9
Saturday, September 3 at 1:00 p.m. (Pre-recorded August 27 concert)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
BERNSTEIN Symphonic Suite from On The Waterfront
HAYDN Cello Concerto in C
WILLIAMS Heartwood, for cello and orchestra
WILLIAMS Rosewood and Pickin’, for solo cello
RESPIGHI Pines of Rome
Sunday, September 4 at 1:00 p.m. (Pre-recorded August 2 concert)
Tanglewood On Parade
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Pops Orchestra
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra
Stefan Asbury, Stéphane Denève, Giancarlo Guerrero,
Ken-David Masur, and John Williams, conductors
Elizabeth Rowe, flute
Jessica Zhou, harp
MICHAEL GANDOLFI Night Train to Perugia
MOZART Double Concerto for Flute and Harp
RAVEL La Valse
JOHN WILLIAMS Hymn to New England
Suite from The BFG
March of the Resistance from Star Wars
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
The complete schedule can also be found online at: http://digital.nepr.net/bso/.