Phil Muse’s Atlanta Audio Club Mid-Summer Classical Reviews Column features Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 & Stucky: Silent Spring:
“What better choice for summertime listening than Beethoven’s time-tested ‘Pastorale’? … Quick but soul-satisfying pacing by conductor and orchestra makes it all come together. … Stucky pays respect to Carson’s dark, uncompromising vision of environmental destruction in musical terms that are positively chilling.… disspirited birdsong in haunting brass and reeds, relentless motion, and stunning displays of sheer energy – serves to reinforce the subject.”
—Phil Muse, Atlanta Audio Club