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Boston Symphony Chamber Players Programs

  • Richard Svoboda and John Ferrillo perform Wanderings by Derek Bermel

    Boston Symphony Chamber Players | Boston, Symphony Hall, & the BSO in 1900

    Boston Symphony Chamber Players
    Earl Lee, conductor (Mahler) 
    Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano
    Randall Hodgkinson, piano

    LOEFFLER Timbres oubliés, for clarinet and harp
    KOECHLIN Two Nocturnes for flute, horn, and piano 
    SAINT-SAËNS Caprice on Danish and Russian Airs, for flute, oboe, clarinet, and piano 
    BEACH Three pieces for violin and piano
    MAHLER Songs of a Wayfarer (arr. SCHOENBERG)

    To parallel our celebrations of Symphony Hall’s 125th anniversary, frequent guest pianist Randall Hodgkinson joins the Chamber Players for a program featuring composers active at the time of the hall’s opening in 1900. Amy Beach and Charles Martin Loeffler were both prominent in Boston’s musical community at the turn of the last century. Charles Koechlin and Camille Saint-Saëns represent two generations of Parisian music, while Mahler (and his younger colleague Schoenberg) were both active in Vienna.

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    Sun Oct 5, 2025 - 3:00pm

    Jordan Hall, Boston, MA

  • Profile shot of Boston Symphony Chamber Players musicians performing in Jordan Hall on 10/27/2024

    Boston Symphony Chamber Players | All-MOZART Program

    Boston Symphony Chamber Players
    Inon Barnatan, piano

    Divertimento for string trio, K.563
    Sonata in C for flute and piano, K.14
    Quintet in E-flat for Piano and Winds, K.452

    The Boston Symphony Chamber Players leans into the intimacy, lightness, and intricacy of Mozart’s chamber music. The cheery tunefulness of the Divertimento for string trio, K.563, Mozart's only completed string trio, blends sonata and serenade forms, illustrating Mozart's mastery of counterpoint and variation, with each instrument given an equal voice. The Quintet for Piano and Winds, K.452, which Mozart himself declared one of his finest works, showcases his evolving approach to the use of woodwinds in his music from supporting players to main characters.

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    Sun Nov 2, 2025 - 3:00pm

    Jordan Hall, Boston, MA

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    Coleman, Simon, and Brahms with Seong-Jin Cho | E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One

    Valerie COLEMAN Rubispheres, for flute, clarinet, and bassoon
    Carlos SIMON New Work (world premiere; BSO commission)
    BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Opus 25

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    Sun Jan 18, 2026 - 3:00pm

    Jordan Hall, Boston, MA

  • Andris Nelsons and the BSO perform Shostakovich Symphony No. 8, 3.24.16

    Debussy, Salonen, and Chausson with Augustin Hadelich

    DEBUSSY Sonata for flute, viola, and harp 
    Esa-Pekka SALONEN Memoria for wind quintet 
    CHAUSSON Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet

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    Sun Feb 15, 2026 - 3:00pm

    Jordan Hall, Boston, MA

  • Profile shot of Boston Symphony Chamber Players musicians performing in Jordan Hall on 10/27/2024

    Boston Symphony Chamber Players | All-Stravinsky Program

    Igor Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat was born from the upheaval of war and revolution, a razor-sharp fable of fate and temptation with jagged rhythms and biting dissonances.

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    Fri Apr 24, 2026 - 7:30pm

    Symphony Hall, Boston, MA