★ Our picks
A few concerts we’d go to this week, and why.
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Sun 3:00 PM
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Beethoven & Brahms
Concert hall
Some of each
Deals for students
Symphony Hall, Back Bay, Boston
A guide to the music at 1:45 precedes Benjamin Zander leading Beethoven's Violin Concerto, with
Guy Braunstein, and Brahms's Fourth Symphony.
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Free and casual
Free concerts, student recitals, open rehearsals and sing-alongs.
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Thu 7:30 PM
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NEC Composers' Series
Concert hall
Student recital
NEC's Jordan Hall, Fenway, Boston
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Fri 12:15 PM
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Free Fridays organ concert: Stephen Kalnoske
Concert hall
Free
Trinity Church, Back Bay, Boston
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Fri 8:00 PM
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Edward Cohen Memorial Concert
Up close
Adventurous
Free
Thomas Tull Concert Hall, MIT, MIT, Cambridge
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Sun 10:00 AM
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Bach Cantata at Sunday service
Concert hall
Favourites
Free
Emmanuel Church, Back Bay, Boston
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Wed 7:30 PM
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NEC Chamber Orchestra
Concert hall
Some of each
Free
NEC's Jordan Hall, Fenway, Boston
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Thu 10:30 AM
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Open Rehearsal: Andris Nelsons with Hilary Hahn and Seth Parker Woods
Concert hall
Some of each
Cheap seats
Open rehearsal
Symphony Hall, Back Bay, Boston
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Day by day
Thursday, October 8
Friday, October 9
Saturday, October 10
Sunday, October 11
Wednesday, October 14
Thursday, October 15
Watch and listen from anywhere
Livestreams, radio broadcasts, competitions and opera in cinemas. Times are Eastern. Links go to the
official pages.
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Oct 9 – 21
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Wieniawski Violin Competition: Stages 1-4 and semi-final
Competition
Free
Free live stream on the Wieniawski Society YouTube channel (youtube.com/@WieniawskiSociety);
also on The Violin Channel, medici.tv and Amadeus.tv
One of the oldest violin competitions (first held in 1935), held every five years; every round
streams, and the final is on Oct 22.
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Thu 11:00 PM ET
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NY Phil This Week: Dudamel conducts Beethoven 5 and Corigliano's Symphony No. 1
Radio
Recorded
Free
WFMT 98.7 FM Chicago and the live stream at wfmt.com
Dudamel in his first season as the New York Philharmonic's music director; Corigliano's First
Symphony is his memorial to friends lost to AIDS.
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Fri 1:00 PM ET
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Neue Stimmen singing competition: final
Competition
Free
Livestream on OperaVision (operavision.eu)
One of the main international competitions for young opera singers; its finalists regularly go
on to major opera houses.
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Fri 8:00 PM ET
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Berlin Phil, Kirill Petrenko and Víkingur Ólafsson live from Carnegie Hall
Radio
Free
WQXR 105.9 FM and wqxr.org (Carnegie Hall Live, also carried by NPR stations)
The Berlin Philharmonic's Carnegie Hall concert on its US tour, broadcast live, with Víkingur
Ólafsson in Brahms's First Piano Concerto.
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Sat 1:00 PM ET
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Zemlinsky's A Florentine Tragedy and Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle from the Vienna State Opera
Livestream
Free, sign-up
State Opera Play (play.wiener-staatsoper.at), in a browser or on the iOS/Apple TV and Fire TV
apps, with English subtitles. Available for up to 72 hours after the performance ends
A double bill of two short, intense one-act operas, with Asmik Grigorian, one of today's
leading opera singers.
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Sat 8:00 PM ET
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Nelsons and Gerstein: Francisco Coll's new Piano Concerto plus Beethoven 7
Radio
Free
CRB Classical 99.5 FM Boston and classicalwcrb.org. Encore broadcast Monday at 8 PM; the page
says episodes are available on demand
It is the U.S. premiere of a new piano concerto by Spanish composer Francisco Coll, paired with
Beethoven's Seventh.
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Sun 4:00 PM ET
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Garrick Ohlsson plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 with the Cleveland Orchestra
Radio
Recorded
Free
WCLV 90.3 FM Cleveland and ideastream.org/wclv (recorded Nov 1, 2025). Sunday broadcasts are
generally available on demand for two weeks after they air
It is a full concert by the Cleveland Orchestra under its longtime music director, with a
Mozart concerto and Schumann's 'Rhenish' Symphony.
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