2022 Tanglewood Broadcasts

Fridays and Saturdays from 8 pm to 10:30 pm

Sundays from 2:30 pm to 5 pm


July 8 (Friday)

Boston Symphony Orchestra 

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Yuja Wang, piano

BERNSTEIN Opening Prayer

LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1

STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring 


July 9 (Saturday)

Boston Symphony Orchestra 

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Nicole Cabell, soprano

Aaron Diehl, piano

Carlos SIMON Motherboxx Connection

BARBER Knoxville: Summer of 1915, for soprano and orchestra 

ELLINGTON New World A-Coming, for piano and orchestra

GERSHWIN An American in Paris 


July 10 (Sunday)

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet 

RACHMANINOFF Vocalise

Helen GRIME Trumpet Concerto, night-sky-blue (American premiere)

RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 3 


July 15 (Friday) 

Encore broadcast, recorded on July 11, 2021, duration two hours.

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Baiba Skride, violin

Carlos SIMON Fate Now Conquers

SIBELIUS Violin Concerto

DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 6


July 16 (Saturday)

Complete opera broadcast, will last until midnight.

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Nicole Cabell, soprano (Donna Elvira)

Janai Brugger, soprano (Zerlina)

Amitai Pati, tenor (Don Ottavio)

Ryan McKinney, baritone (Don Giovanni)

Will Liverman, baritone (Leporello)

Alfred Walker, bass-baritone (Masetto) 

Ryan Speedo-Green, bass (Commendatore) 

Tanglewood Festival Chorus, James Burton, conductor 

MOZART Don Giovanni


July 17 (Sunday)

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Lucas and Arthur Jussen, piano

Ying Fang, soprano

Shenyang, bass-baritone

Tanglewood Festival Chorus,James Burton, conductor

Fazil SAY Phoenix (Anka Kuşu), for piano four-hands and orchestra (American premiere)

BRAHMS A German Requiem


July 22 (Friday)

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Karina Canellakis, conductor 

Emanuel Ax, piano

WAGNER Prelude to Lohengrin, Act 1 

CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2 

RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances 


July 23 (Saturday)

Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra 

Andris Nelsons, conductor 

Christine Goerke, soprano 

BERLIOZ The Death of Cleopatra 

MAHLER Symphony No. 5 


July 24 (Sunday)

Boston Symphony Orchestra 

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Latonia Moore, soprano

Seong-Jin Cho, piano

STILL In Memoriam: The Colored Soldiers Who Died for Democracy

WALKER Lilacs 

BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2


July 29 (Friday)

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Paul Lewis, piano

Julia ADOLPHE Makeshift Castle (world premiere)

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 3 


July 30 (Saturday)

Boston Symphony Orchestra 

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Paul Lewis, piano

Caroline SHAW Punctum (world premiere of orchestral version) 

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1 

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 


July 31 (Sunday)

Boston Symphony Orchestra 

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Paul Lewis, piano

Elizabeth OGONEK Starling Variations (world premiere)

FARRENC Symphony No. 3

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor 


August 5 (Friday)

Boston Symphony Orchestra 

Earl Lee, conductor

Christina and Michelle Naughton, pianos

Brian Raphael NABORS Pulse

POULENC Concerto in D minor for two pianos and orchestra

MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3, Scottish 


August 6 (Saturday)

Boston Symphony Orchestra 

JoAnn Falletta, conductor

Joshua Bell, violin

Roberto SIERRA Fandangos 

TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto 

RESPIGHI Fountains of Rome 

RESPIGHI Pines of Rome 


August 7 (Sunday)

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Adès, conductor

Leonidas Kavakos, violin

Antoine Tamistet, viola

Lorelei Ensemble

Thomas ADÈS Shanty – Over the Sea

MOZART Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola, K.364

HOLST The Planets 


August 12 (Friday)

Encore broadcast, recorded on Aug. 14, 2021, duration two hours.

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Anna Rakitina, conductor

Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

Elena LANGER Suite from Figaro Gets a Divorce

RAVEL Piano Concerto in G

ELGAR Enigma Variations


August 13 (Saturday)

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor

Leonidas Kavakos, violin

DUTILLEUX Métaboles

MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto

DEBUSSY Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun 

RAVEL Mother Goose (complete) 


August 14 (Sunday)

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Cristian Măcelaru, conductor

Yo-Yo Ma, cello

Anna CLYNE Masquerade 

ELGAR Cello Concerto 

DEBUSSY La Mer 

ENESCU Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 

August 19 (Friday)

Boston Pops Orchestra 

An encore broadcast from August 7, 2021

Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

Joshua Bell, violin

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7


August 20 (Saturday)

John Williams – The Tanglewood 90th Birthday Celebration

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Ken-David Masur, conductor 

with special guests

Martin Grubinger, percussion

Yo-Yo Ma, cello

Branford Marsalis, saxophone

Eric Revis, bass

James Taylor, vocalist

Jessica Zhou, harp


Tanglewood celebrates the 90th birthday of John Williams in a special program featuring concert music composed for the BSO and Boston Pops, along with beloved film themes. 


August 21 (Sunday)

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor 

Itzhak Perlman, violin

Unsuk CHIN subito con forza 

BRUCH Violin Concerto in G minor 

BRAHMS Symphony No. 1 


August 26 (Friday)

Boston Symphony Orchestra 

Anna Rakitina, conductor

Gil Shaham, violin 

Tanglewood Festival Chorus, James Burton, conductor 

SHOSTAKOVICH Waltz No. 2 from Suite No. 1 for Variety Orchestra

DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 3, The First of May 

BORODIN Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor 


August 27 (Saturday)

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor 

Alexander Malofeev, piano

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Dubinushka 

RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3 

COPLAND Symphony No. 3


August 28 (Sunday)

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor 

Jacquelyn Stucker, soprano

Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano

Ben Bliss, tenor

Dashon Burton, bass-baritone

Tanglewood Festival Chorus, James Burton, conductor 

IVES Psalm 90

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9