Celebrate American. Piano Music in all of its glorious diversity, this Friday (6/26, rebroadcast Saturday 6/27)

A Tempo Saturday (4/27) features a conversation with pianist Orli Shaham about her new all-American chamber music recording.

Sounds Choral this Sunday (6/28 at 2 pm) features an interview with British conductor Suzi Digby about her ensemble's latest release.

Milan’s La Scala is our destination for this week’s Sunday Opera (6/28 3:00 p.m.) and their recent production of Dmitri Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” a 1934 opera based on the 1865 novella “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District: by Nikolai Leskov with a libretto by the composer and Alexander Preis.

Once again, summer came early with two heatwaves already and a third one looming in the next week. To cool things down a bit, we’re turning to the musicals for songs about “summer” on this week’s Dress Circle (6/28 7:00 p.m.), and we’ve been able to cull together fourteen pieces even though, oddly enough, there aren’t as many songs about summer as you might have thought.

This concert broadcast Monday (6/22 at 8 pm) features the symphony's 'America 250!' new chamber music concert, celebrating our country and its democracy in music of our time reflecting our past, present and future.

The French pianist Pascal Rogé featured this Friday (6/19, rebroadcast Saturday 6/20)

A Tempo Saturday (6/28) features a conversation with the artistic directors of the Chelsea Music Festival, which this year is celebrating music and storytelling by American composers, musicians, artists, chefs and other creative forces.

Beethoven’s only opera, “Fidelio,” is the centerpiece of this week’s all-Beethoven Sunday Opera (6/21 3:00 p.m.) in a production from the Vienna State Opera with Maylim Bystrom in the titular role.

We’re following up on an earlier program on this week’s Dress Circle (6/21 7:00 p.m.) with a program we’ve titled “Songs of Inspiration, Determination, and Hope. The previous program was in April which has been dubbed the “Month of Hope,” and that program contained an entirely different playlist of songs with “hope” in the title. This time, the songs offer inspiration and hope for characters and listeners, as well as show determination to overcome adversity. We believe that these are things that are truly needed just now.