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Boston Symphony Orchestra Assistant Conductor Moritz Gnann talks about his first subscription concert with the orchestra, and pianist Menahem Pressler recalls his career with the Beux Arts Trio. Also, WCRB's Alan McLellan talks with the member of the Hermitage Trio about their concert presented by Rockport Music.

In an eventful week in the life of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tony Fogg, Artistic Administrator of the BSO and Director of Tanglewood, remembers the late Principal Cellist Jules Eskin and previews a spectacular 2017 Tanglewood season.

(photo of Tanglewood by Stu Rosner, courtesy of the BSO)

Pianist Hélène Grimaud and conductor Andris Nelsons talk about their November 2016 Boston Symphony programs of piano concertos and symphonies by Brahms, and Gil Rose discusses Odyssey Opera's performance of Dvorák's opera Dmitrij.

(photo of Hélène Grimaud by Mat Henek)

Boston Symphony Orchestra Artistic Partner Thomas Adès talks with WCRB's Brian McCreath about his November 2016 program of works by Britten, Sibelius, and himself, and the New England Conservatory's Director of Orchestras, Hugh Wolff, describes the evolution of the Symphony No. 1 by Gustav Mahler.

(photo of Thomas Adès by Stu Rosner, courtesy of the BSO)

Conductor Charles Dutoit previews a Boston Symphony Orchestra program of extreme contrast, including Mozart's Symphony No. 39 and Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle, and violinist Lara St. John describes the stories and performances that infuse her 2016 release, Shiksa.

(photo of Charles Dutoit by Robert Torres, courtesy of the BSO)

Conductor Charles Dutoit previews an All-British Boston Symphony Orchestra program, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma describes the musical trajectory of his 2015 release, Songs from the Arc of Life.

(photo of Charles Dutoit by Priska Ketterer)

WCRB's Brian McCreath talks with two Boston Symphony Orchestra guest conductors, including Jakub Hrusa, whose debut program with the orchestra includes works by Smetana, Bartok, Mussorgsky, and Janacek, and Juanjo Mena, who led two concerts at Tanglewood during the summer.

(photo of Jakub Hrusa by Petra Klackova)

Pianist Yefim Bronfman and conductor Andris Nelsons talk about Jörg Widmann's Trauermarsch and Brahms's A German Requiem, and three founders of A Far Cry look back on the first ten years of the ensemble's existence.

(photo of Yefim Bronfman by Dario Acosta)

Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham talks with WCRB's Brian McCreath about singing Octavian in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, as well as her recital program based on Schumann's Frauenliebe und -leben: Variations, and Andris Nelsons describes his approach to conducting Rosenkavalier.

(photo of Susan Graham by B. Ealovega)

Boston Symphony Orchestra Music Director Andris Nelsons talks with WCRB's Brian McCreath about the Opening Night program of the 2016-2017 season, and soprano Christine Goerke talks wtih WCRB's Ron Della Chiesa about performing Strauss's Elektra with the BSO.

(photo of Andris Nelsons by Marco Borggreve)