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📲 CRB Classical mobile app
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It's finally that time of year... Sunday at 7pm on WCRB In Concert with the Handel and Haydn Society, hear H+H celebrate the wonder and joy of the holiday season with Handel's "Messiah"!
Tune in on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/48yl1Kv
Tune in on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/48yl1Kv
Hallelujah! Handel and Haydn Society's "Messiah"
On WCRB In Concert with the Handel and Haydn Society, Artistic Director Jonathan Cohen leads the H+H Orchestra, Chorus, and a slate of spectacular soloists in a centuries-old Boston tradition.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It's finally that time of year... Sunday at 7pm on WCRB In Concert with the Handel and Haydn Society, hear H+H celebrate the wonder and joy of the holiday season with Handel's "Messiah"!
Tune in on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/48yl1Kv
Tune in on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/48yl1Kv
Saturday at 8pm, Andris Nelsons shares a program of Sibelius and Grieg with conductors Ross Jamie Collins and Na'Zir McFadden, featuring piano soloist Benjamin Grosvenor.
Catch this encore broadcast on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/4iGFemc
Catch this encore broadcast on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/4iGFemc
The Boston Symphony and Music of Scandinavia
Music Director Andris Nelsons shares a program with conductors Ross Jamie Collins and Na’Zir McFadden featuring works by Sibelius and Grieg, with piano soloist Benjamin Grosvenor.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Saturday at 8pm, Andris Nelsons shares a program of Sibelius and Grieg with conductors Ross Jamie Collins and Na'Zir McFadden, featuring piano soloist Benjamin Grosvenor.
Catch this encore broadcast on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/4iGFemc
Catch this encore broadcast on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/4iGFemc
Today's the first day of our winter membership drive, and we're so grateful to all of you! Our listeners know better than anyone else that the perfect music can warm you right up.
Support the music that keeps you warm by calling 888-995-9272 or by heading to: https://bit.ly/42RCWa1
Support the music that keeps you warm by calling 888-995-9272 or by heading to: https://bit.ly/42RCWa1
December 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Today's the first day of our winter membership drive, and we're so grateful to all of you! Our listeners know better than anyone else that the perfect music can warm you right up.
Support the music that keeps you warm by calling 888-995-9272 or by heading to: https://bit.ly/42RCWa1
Support the music that keeps you warm by calling 888-995-9272 or by heading to: https://bit.ly/42RCWa1
Now available on demand: hear Assistant Conductor Samy Rachid lead the @bostonsymphony.bsky.social in Dvořák's Cello Concerto starring Pablo Ferrández, as well as Dvořák's 8th Symphony.
Stream the full broadcast on our app or online:
Stream the full broadcast on our app or online:
An All-Dvořák Program with Rachid, Ferrández, and the BSO
Samy Rachid leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Dvořák’s dramatic Cello Concerto featuring soloist Pablo Ferrández, as well as his Eighth Symphony, infused with the vigor and beauty of the natural ...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Now available on demand: hear Assistant Conductor Samy Rachid lead the @bostonsymphony.bsky.social in Dvořák's Cello Concerto starring Pablo Ferrández, as well as Dvořák's 8th Symphony.
Stream the full broadcast on our app or online:
Stream the full broadcast on our app or online:
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year: When @crbclassical.bsky.social has multiple holiday classical music streams you can listen to!
December 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: When @crbclassical.bsky.social has multiple holiday classical music streams you can listen to!
On this week's episode of The Bach Hour with bkmccreath.bsky.social, catch the first of a six-part narrative for the holiday season, full of joy, doubt, and wonder. Listen here: https://bit.ly/4puHHlx
A World Transformed in Part 1 of Bach's Christmas Oratorio
On The Bach Hour, the first of the composer's six-part narrative for the season expresses joy, doubt, and wonder in a concert performance led by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
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November 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
On this week's episode of The Bach Hour with bkmccreath.bsky.social, catch the first of a six-part narrative for the holiday season, full of joy, doubt, and wonder. Listen here: https://bit.ly/4puHHlx
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Right now, #Dvorák twice with Ferrández once from #Boston www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/... #wch
Dvor�k twice with Ferr�ndez once from Boston - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Pablo Ferrández, cello, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Samy Rachid play: DVORÁK: Cello Concerto. Symphony No. 8. Live....
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November 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Right now, #Dvorák twice with Ferrández once from #Boston www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/... #wch
Happy Thanksgiving! Starting tomorrow, we're serving up back-to-back pieces from your favorite composers. Tune in to our Second Helpings Weekend on-air, on our app, or online at classical.org.
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! Starting tomorrow, we're serving up back-to-back pieces from your favorite composers. Tune in to our Second Helpings Weekend on-air, on our app, or online at classical.org.
During this season of gratitude, we are thankful for you, our listeners, and our dedicated GBH Music team members -- including Alan McLellan, who has retired after nearly 30 years at Classical Radio Boston. Thank you Alan!
Alan reflects on his career:
https://bit.ly/4pybXfw
Alan reflects on his career:
https://bit.ly/4pybXfw
Alan McLellan, Signing Off
Retiring after nearly 30 years at Classical Radio Boston and GBH Music, Alan McLellan shares what’s changed, what’s stayed the same, and what he’s learned over his wide-ranging career.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
During this season of gratitude, we are thankful for you, our listeners, and our dedicated GBH Music team members -- including Alan McLellan, who has retired after nearly 30 years at Classical Radio Boston. Thank you Alan!
Alan reflects on his career:
https://bit.ly/4pybXfw
Alan reflects on his career:
https://bit.ly/4pybXfw
Saturday at 8pm, Assistant Conductor Samy Rachid leads the bostonsymphony.bsky.social in an all-Dvořák program, featuring his folk-inspired 8th Symphony and his Cello Concerto starring Pablo Ferrández.
Listen on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/48zhv3G
Listen on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/48zhv3G
An All-Dvořák Program with Rachid, Ferrández, and the BSO
Samy Rachid leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Dvořák’s dramatic Cello Concerto featuring soloist Pablo Ferrández, as well as his Eighth Symphony, infused with the vigor and beauty of the natural ...
www.classicalwcrb.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Saturday at 8pm, Assistant Conductor Samy Rachid leads the bostonsymphony.bsky.social in an all-Dvořák program, featuring his folk-inspired 8th Symphony and his Cello Concerto starring Pablo Ferrández.
Listen on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/48zhv3G
Listen on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/48zhv3G
Our November Instant Replay is out now! Listen to the songs we've been spinning all month long: https://bit.ly/4pns1Rg
Instant Replay: 079
This month, we're sliding into the holiday season with love, longing, and no longer feeling alone.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Our November Instant Replay is out now! Listen to the songs we've been spinning all month long: https://bit.ly/4pns1Rg
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
Stream Reinhard Keiser's "Octavia: The Roman Rebellion" on our app or online: https://bit.ly/48oCXr4
November 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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
Stream Reinhard Keiser's "Octavia: The Roman Rebellion" on our app or online: https://bit.ly/48oCXr4
On this week's episode of The Bach Hour with @bkmccreath.bsky.social, 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: https://bit.ly/44mT2vT
Beatrice Rana's Bach Concertos
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."
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November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
On this week's episode of The Bach Hour with @bkmccreath.bsky.social, 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: https://bit.ly/44mT2vT
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Right now, #Mason, de Hartmann with Bell and #Mussorgsky from #Boston www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/... #wch
Mason, de Hartmann with Bell and Mussorgsky from Boston - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
Joshua Bell, violin, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jonathon Heyward play: Grace-Evangeline MASON: The Imagined Forest. Thomas DE HARTMANN: Violin Concerto. MUSSORGSKY orch. Ravel:…
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November 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Right now, #Mason, de Hartmann with Bell and #Mussorgsky from #Boston www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/... #wch
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.
https://bit.ly/4o2PINx
Read about his forty-year career on the Greater Boston airwaves, and what he loves about classical music.
https://bit.ly/4o2PINx
Life On (and In) the Air with CRB Classical's David O'Leary
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 fa...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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.
https://bit.ly/4o2PINx
Read about his forty-year career on the Greater Boston airwaves, and what he loves about classical music.
https://bit.ly/4o2PINx
Sunday at 7pm on WCRB In Concert with BEMF, 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
Listen on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/4r8zbdD
"Octavia," with Boston Early Music
On WCRB In Concert with BEMF, the power of love and trickery rewrite history in Reinhard Keiser's opera “Octavia: The Roman Rebellion."
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November 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Sunday at 7pm on WCRB In Concert with BEMF, 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
Listen on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/4r8zbdD
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Our friend and former V66 VJ David O'Leary, now on @crbclassical.bsky.social, mentioned V66 in this interview about his career! www.wgbh.org/foundation/h...
Life On (and In) the Air with CRB Classical’s David O’Leary
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 appreciat...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Our friend and former V66 VJ David O'Leary, now on @crbclassical.bsky.social, mentioned V66 in this interview about his career! www.wgbh.org/foundation/h...
Saturday at 8pm, Anna Handler conducts the Boston Symphony in the Violin Concerto by Thomas de Hartmann, with soloist Joshua Bell. After, Mussorgsky’s "Pictures at an Exhibition," arranged by Ravel.
Listen on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/3K9Ycob
Listen on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/3K9Ycob
Joshua Bell, the BSO, and de Hartmann’s Violin Concerto
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
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November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Saturday at 8pm, Anna Handler conducts the Boston Symphony in the Violin Concerto by Thomas de Hartmann, with soloist Joshua Bell. After, Mussorgsky’s "Pictures at an Exhibition," arranged by Ravel.
Listen on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/3K9Ycob
Listen on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/3K9Ycob
On this week's episode of The Bach Hour with bkmccreath.bsky.social, conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini leads his Italian ensemble in unique re-imaginings of Bach's music. Listen here: https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-bach-hour/2024-11-14/concerto-italiano-alessandrini-and-bach
Concerto Italiano, Alessandrini, and Bach
On The Bach Hour, conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini leads his Italian ensemble in unique re-imaginings of Bach's music, and Konrad Junghänel conducts the Missa Brevis in F.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
On this week's episode of The Bach Hour with bkmccreath.bsky.social, conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini leads his Italian ensemble in unique re-imaginings of Bach's music. Listen here: https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-bach-hour/2024-11-14/concerto-italiano-alessandrini-and-bach
Saturday at 8pm, Dima Slobodeniouk leads the bostonsymphony.bsky.social in the world premiere of Tania León’s "Time to Time," followed by Roberto Sierra’s Concerto for Saxophones and Orchestra with James Carter.
Listen on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/4qWEUTU
Listen on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/4qWEUTU
Slobodeniouk Conducts Brahms, Sierra, and a World Premiere
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 soloi...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Saturday at 8pm, Dima Slobodeniouk leads the bostonsymphony.bsky.social in the world premiere of Tania León’s "Time to Time," followed by Roberto Sierra’s Concerto for Saxophones and Orchestra with James Carter.
Listen on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/4qWEUTU
Listen on-air, on our app, or online: https://bit.ly/4qWEUTU
Go Beyond the Page with author M.L. Rio and CRB host Edyn-Mae Stevenson TONIGHT at 7pm for an exclusive conversation about M.L. Rio’s latest release, HOT WAX! Register here: https://bit.ly/4i45oyL
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Go Beyond the Page with author M.L. Rio and CRB host Edyn-Mae Stevenson TONIGHT at 7pm for an exclusive conversation about M.L. Rio’s latest release, HOT WAX! Register here: https://bit.ly/4i45oyL
Now available to stream on demand: hear Haydn's "The Creation" brought to life by soloists Hera Hyesang Park, Paul Appleby, and Nicholas Newton on WCRB In Concert with Boston Baroque.
Listen on our app or online: bit.ly/3Lf710n
Listen on our app or online: bit.ly/3Lf710n
Haydn's "The Creation," with Boston Baroque
On WCRB In Concert with Boston Baroque, Haydn's breathtaking "The Creation" is brought to life by soloists Hera Hyesang Park, Paul Appleby, and Nicholas Newton, all making their Boston Baroque debuts.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Now available to stream on demand: hear Haydn's "The Creation" brought to life by soloists Hera Hyesang Park, Paul Appleby, and Nicholas Newton on WCRB In Concert with Boston Baroque.
Listen on our app or online: bit.ly/3Lf710n
Listen on our app or online: bit.ly/3Lf710n
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Absolutely loved the Rachmaninoff piece just now on David O’Leary’s program! My relative with Alzheimer’s is walking on air after listening. Thank you @crbclassical.bsky.social
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November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Absolutely loved the Rachmaninoff piece just now on David O’Leary’s program! My relative with Alzheimer’s is walking on air after listening. Thank you @crbclassical.bsky.social
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Happy supporters of WCRB over here
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Happy supporters of WCRB over here
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Hope you can join me at 7:30pm on Veterans Day when I'll bring you Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata on @crbclassical.bsky.social with the intense and intelligent pianist Jonathan Biss. His candor and insight about anxiety is moving and instructive:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVlw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVlw...
Now Unquiet: The Journey of Pianist Jonathan Biss | Anxiety & Mental Health Recovery
YouTube video by OC87 Recovery Diaries
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November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Hope you can join me at 7:30pm on Veterans Day when I'll bring you Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata on @crbclassical.bsky.social with the intense and intelligent pianist Jonathan Biss. His candor and insight about anxiety is moving and instructive:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVlw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVlw...
In a conversation with bkmccreath.bsky.social on this week's episode of The Bach Hour, Hilary Hahn describes the endless creative possibilities in the Bach's music for solo violin, and plays his Sonata No. 2. Listen on our app or online: https://bit.ly/47FIVTX
Hilary Hahn's Bach
In a conversation with host Brian McCreath on The Bach Hour, Hahn describes the endless creative possibilities in the composer's music for solo violin and plays the Sonata No. 2.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
In a conversation with bkmccreath.bsky.social on this week's episode of The Bach Hour, Hilary Hahn describes the endless creative possibilities in the Bach's music for solo violin, and plays his Sonata No. 2. Listen on our app or online: https://bit.ly/47FIVTX