Upcoming Concerts & Performances
7 upcoming concerts and performances from Boston Philharmonic, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All classical in Greater Boston →
Sun Oct 11 · 3:00pm
Weber's Der Freischütz overture opens, followed by Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D and Brahms's Fourth Symphony. Benjamin Zander's pre-concert Guide to the Music runs an hour and a quarter beforehand in the hall. First of four subscription programmes in what the orchestra has announced as its final season.
Fri Nov 6 · 8:00pm
The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra plays Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila overture, Stravinsky's Petrushka and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. The BPYO draws its players from across greater Boston and gives its subscription concerts in Symphony Hall, on the same stage as the senior orchestra.
Sun Nov 22 · 3:00pm
Schubert's Unfinished Symphony before Bruckner's Fifth, pairing one of the shortest symphonies in the repertory with one that runs well over an hour and closes on a combined chorale and fugue. The Guide to the Music precedes it. Second of four in the orchestra's final season.
Sun Feb 14 · 3:00pm
Beethoven's Coriolan overture and the Ninth Symphony. The orchestra's traditional pre-concert lecture, the Guide to the Music, runs an hour and a quarter beforehand in the hall. This is the third of four Boston Philharmonic programmes in what the orchestra has announced as its closing season.
Fri Feb 26 · 8:00pm
Ravel's La Valse, Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto and Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, played by the Youth Orchestra. This is the second of the BPYO's three programmes this season, all in Symphony Hall; the season announcement does not yet name the piano soloist.
Sun Apr 11 · 3:00pm
Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem, written in 1940 on a commission from the Japanese government which then rejected it as unsuitable, before Mahler's Ninth Symphony. The last of the Boston Philharmonic's four subscription programmes, and the last of its final season.
Sun Apr 25 · 3:00pm
Mahler's Second Symphony, the Resurrection, fills the programme on its own — it needs a full orchestra, a chorus and two vocal soloists, and runs about ninety minutes. It closes the Youth Orchestra's season and the Boston Philharmonic organisation's final year, its forty-eighth.