Tanglewood — 2026/07/10

 Thie BSO played a concert at Tanglewood on July 5. This wweekend WCRB resumes their customary broadcasts of weekend concerts on Friday and Saturday virtuallt live and Sunday recorded in the afternoon to be broadcast a 7:00 p.m.Here's how they synopsize this evening's performance: 

https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/the-boston-symphony-orchestra/2026-03-24/seong-jin-cho-the-bso-and-the-opening-weekend-of-tanglewood

Friday, July 10, 2026
8:00 PM

Music by Tchaikovsky begins the first full weekend of Boston Symphony performances at Tanglewood, including the First Piano Concerto with soloist Seong-Jin Cho and selections from Swan Lake — all led by Andris Nelsons.

Andris Nelsons, conductor 
Seong-Jin Cho, piano 

All-Tchaikovsky program
Piano Concerto No. 1
Excerpts from Swan Lake

It takes some doing to find the BSO's own description of the event. You have to goto their homepage, choose "Tickets and Events," select the date of the concertsm and then click on the "Learn More" button.When you do that forJuly 10, 2026, tou end up here: https://www.bso.org/events/july-10-boston-symphony-orch?performance=2026-07-10-20:00

The Catherine and Paul Buttenwieser Concert

Boston Symphony Orchestra Andris Nelsons, conductor Seong-Jin Cho, piano Boston Ballet Viktorina Kapitonova, dancer Patrick Yocum, dancer Mikko Nissinen, Artistic Director, Boston Ballet TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1  TCHAIKOVSKY Excerpts from Swan Lake  

The arrows get you to performer bios and program notes. Although the concerto is pretty familiar, the note gives some interesting background information.

I had written about all three of this weekend's concerts, but when I went to copy it, the post disappeared. I'll try to post about Saturday and Sunday tomorrow. Meanwhile, enjoy this performance.