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Classical concerts in Boston

The Boston Symphony, Handel and Haydn, Boston Baroque, and chamber music, recitals and choirs across Boston and Cambridge. Updated every week.
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Composers with music in two or more coming concerts
Bach
12
Handel
10
Mendelssohn
8
Anonymous
7
Beethoven
7
Golijov
4
Schumann
4
Weber
4
Dvořák
3
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Our picks

A few we’d go to, and why.
Fri
16
Oct
Boston Early Music Festival
Stile Antico: Polyphonic Postcards
Palestrina · Tallis · Guerrero
7:30 PM · St. Paul Parish, Cambridge, Harvard Square, Cambridge
Adventurous · Ticketed
Twelve conductorless singers tour Renaissance Paris, Seville, Munich, Rome, Lisbon and Venice, ending with a Christopher Cerrone commission.
★ Our pick
Thu
22
Oct
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Kent Nagano conducts Machover's already and not yet
Mendelssohn · Machover · Nante
7:30 PM · Symphony Hall, Back Bay, Boston
Concert hall · Some of each · Cheap seats
Kent Nagano conducts the world premiere of Tod Machover's already and not yet with the Boston Symphony at Symphony Hall.
★ Our pick
Sun
25
Oct
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Chamber Players
Carter · Schubert · Mendelssohn
3:00 PM · NEC's Jordan Hall, Fenway, Boston
Concert hall · Some of each · Cheap seats
Boston Symphony musicians play Schubert and Mendelssohn chamber music on a Sunday afternoon at Jordan Hall.
★ Our pick

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This week

All 15 concerts this week, day by day
Fri
16
Oct
Trinity Church Boston
Free Fridays organ concert: David Stultz
12:15 PM · Trinity Church, Back Bay, Boston
Concert hall · Free
Fri
16
Oct
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons with Hilary Hahn and Seth Parker Woods
Tchaikovsky · Simon
1:30 PM · Symphony Hall, Back Bay, Boston
Concert hall · Some of each · Cheap seats
Fri
16
Oct
Boston Early Music Festival
Stile Antico: Polyphonic Postcards
Palestrina · Tallis · Guerrero
7:30 PM · St. Paul Parish, Cambridge, Harvard Square, Cambridge
Adventurous · Ticketed
★ Our pick
Fri
16
Oct
Vivo Performing Arts (formerly Celebrity Series of Boston)
Brentano String Quartet: Flights of Fugue
Shostakovich · Bach · Beethoven
8:00 PM · NEC's Jordan Hall, Fenway, Boston
Concert hall · Favourites · Deals for students
Sat
17
Oct
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons with Hilary Hahn and Seth Parker Woods
Tchaikovsky · Simon
8:00 PM · Symphony Hall, Back Bay, Boston
Concert hall · Some of each · Cheap seats
Sat
17
Oct
Radius Ensemble
Textures
Kouyoumdjian · Russell · Shaw · Poulenc
8:00 PM · Thomas Tull Concert Hall, MIT, MIT, Cambridge
Up close · Adventurous
Sat
17
Oct
Longwood Symphony Orchestra
City Alive, with Albert Cano Smit
Rossini · Larrea · Gershwin
8:00 PM · NEC's Jordan Hall, Fenway, Boston
Concert hall · Some of each
Sun
18
Oct
Emmanuel Music
Bach Cantata at Sunday service
Bach
10:00 AM · Emmanuel Church, Back Bay, Boston
Concert hall · Favourites · Free
Sun
18
Oct
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
ACRONYM: Esther in the Age of Rembrandt
Jacquet de La Guerre · Duarte · Rossi · Carissimi · Schmelzer · Charpentier
1:30 PM · Calderwood Hall, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Fenway, Boston
Up close · Adventurous · Cheap seats
Sun
18
Oct
New England Conservatory
Faculty Recital: Paula Robison, flute: The Great Vivaldi
Vivaldi
3:00 PM · NEC's Jordan Hall, Fenway, Boston
Concert hall · Favourites
Sun
18
Oct
Emmanuel Music
Tan, Habibi & Beethoven
Tan · Habibi · Beethoven
4:00 PM · Emmanuel Church, Back Bay, Boston
Concert hall · Some of each
Sun
18
Oct
Longy School of Music of Bard College
Dana Maiben and Vivian Montgomery: An Outburst of Improvisors
Strozzi · Marini · Castello · Frescobaldi
7:00 PM · Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Harvard Square, Cambridge
Up close · Adventurous · Free
Tue
20
Oct
The Boston Camerata
A Gathering in Music in Honor of Joel Cohen
6:30 PM · Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Harvard Square, Cambridge
Up close · Free
Thu
22
Oct
Boston Choral Ensemble
Messiah Open Sing
Handel
7:30 PM · Old South Church, Back Bay, Boston
Concert hall · Favourites
Sing-along
Thu
22
Oct
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Kent Nagano conducts Machover's already and not yet
Mendelssohn · Machover · Nante
7:30 PM · Symphony Hall, Back Bay, Boston
Concert hall · Some of each · Cheap seats
★ Our pick

Free and casual

All 22 events
Free concerts, student recitals, open rehearsals and sing-alongs.
Fri
16
Oct
Trinity Church Boston
Free Fridays organ concert: David Stultz
12:15 PM · Trinity Church, Back Bay, Boston
Concert hall · Free
Sun
18
Oct
Emmanuel Music
Bach Cantata at Sunday service
Bach
10:00 AM · Emmanuel Church, Back Bay, Boston
Concert hall · Favourites · Free
Sun
18
Oct
Longy School of Music of Bard College
Dana Maiben and Vivian Montgomery: An Outburst of Improvisors
Strozzi · Marini · Castello · Frescobaldi
7:00 PM · Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Harvard Square, Cambridge
Up close · Adventurous · Free

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