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Sunday at 7pm, Jonathan Cohen - Conductor leads a program of dazzling 17th and 18th-century dance music!

Tune in to WCRB In Concert with the Handel and Haydn Society, on-air, on our app, or online:

"Water Music," with the Handel and Haydn Society On WCRB In Concert with H+H, Jonathan Cohen leads a program of dazzling 17th and 18th-century dance music!

Saturday at 8pm, in an encore broadcast, Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s 4th Symphony, sung by soprano Nikola Hillebrand, as well as Debussy’s Nocturnes with the Lorelei Ensemble.

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

Encore: The Heavenly Life of Mahler’s Fourth, with the BSO and Hillebrand 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.

For this week's Focus at 4, we're heading back to school! Tune in weekdays at 4pm with Greg Ferrisi to hear these scholastic serenades:

Monday, 9/7 - Joseph Haydn's "The Schoolmaster" Symphony, with Hartmut Haenchen and the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra

Tuesday, 9/8 - Samuel Barber's "School for Scandal" Overture, with Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Wednesday, 9/9 - Danny Elfman's "Back to School" Overture, with John Coleman and National Philharmonic

Thursday, 9/10 - Attilio Ariosti's "Viola d'Amore Lesson" No. 1, with Thomas Georgi, Lucas Harris, and Joelle Morton

Friday, 9/11 - Johannes Brahms's "Academic Festival Overture," with Michael Tilson Thomas and the London Symphony Orchestra

On this week's episode of The Bach Hour with Brian McCreath, Philippe Herreweghe conducts a work that grapples with the oppositional forces of light and dark, and pianist Igor levit performs Bach's Partita No. 2. Listen here:

The Contradictory Perspectives of Bach's Cantata 78 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.

Sunday at 7pm, In Concert broadcasts are back!

On WCRB In Concert with GBH Music, the Grammy-nominated Neave Trio performs "American Mosaics," a program celebrating the diverse voices that have shaped American music.

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

"American Mosaics: Neave Trio," with GBH Music 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, and been shaped by, American musical traditions.

Saturday at 8pm, Domingo Hindoyan leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the "greatest American symphony": Aaron Copland’s Third Symphony!

Catch this encore broadcast from last year on-air, on our app, or online:

Encore: Hindoyan Conducts Copland 3, with the Boston Symphony 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 soloist in Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto.