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Pittsburgh Symphony’s Tchaikovsky/Dvorak “is a winner”
ConcertoNet reviews the upcoming Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck Tchaikovsky/Dvořák SACD: “Empathy and understanding are two flourishing intangible ingredients which a conductor must cogitate then parlay for the ear in order to elicit a composer’s deepest thoughts. Such pensive factors engulfed Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s life, and while the conveyance of his finale à la vie are rendered sublime by Manfred Honeck, the germination of musical tendrils only gets better in his récriture personnelle of…
Doug MacLeod Wins 2016 Blues Music Award!
Doug MacLeod wins The Blues Foundation’s Acoustic Artist Blues Music Award for 2016! Congratulations to Doug! Doug MacLeod: Exactly Like This HDCDVinyl LP Amazon Apple Music Doug MacLeod: There’s A Time HDCD2-LP Set! – NEWHRxHRx 176kHz/24bit download from HDtracks.com
Blues Music Awards TONIGHT!
RR is in Memphis for TONIGHT’s Blues Foundation Hall of Fame celebration and Blues Awards ceremony, with plenty of music and soulful food in between. Doug MacLeod, Fiona Boyes and drummer Jimi Bott are all up for awards. All of this years nominees represent a special group in the blues universe and we’re thrilled to be working with three of them. Fiona Boyes performs tonight at both the awards and Hall of Fame reception and…
Watch Manfred Honeck Conducting Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6!
Manfred Conducts the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6! Manfred Honeck conducts Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 from Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on Vimeo. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 Dvořák: Rusalka Fantasy (arr. Honeck/Ille) Pittsburgh Symphony OrchestraManfred Honeck, Music DirectorOut May 13, 2016FR-720 Pre-Order Now!
Musical Toronto Features Upcoming Pittsburgh Symphony Release
The upcoming Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred release featuring Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony and Dvořák’s Rusalka Fantasy gets a rave review from Musical Toronto! “[Manfred Honeck and] his stellar Pittsburgh players gives us a fully inflected rendition of the Pathétique. He has the strings of the Pittsburgh Symphony often sounding like the Vienna Philharmonic – Honeck was a violinist in the Vienna Philharmonic in his younger days – and the power of the orchestra is a fearsome…
New York Times Reviews Utah Symphony at Carnegie Hall!
The New York Times reviews the Utah Symphony’s Friday night performance and the “Switch” New York Premiere at Carnegie Hall! “The inspired players excelled in an ambitious program that featured the New York premiere of Andrew Norman’s ‘Switch,’ one of several recent Utah Symphony commissions. … ‘Switch’ explores nonlinear, narrative-scrambling techniques borrowed from video games. His restless music gurgles and explodes in often fragmented phrases, leaping breathlessly from one thing to another. ‘Switch’ actually begins…
Utah Symphony At Carnegie Hall – TONIGHT!
TONIGHT — The Utah Symphony Returns to Carnegie Hall! Utah Symphony with Thierry Fischer, Andrew Norman, and Colin Currie The Utah Symphony, which opened Carnegie Hall’s 75th anniversary season, returns with Music Director Thierry Fischer to celebrate its own 75th anniversary. Colin Currie performs the New York premiere of Andrew Norman’s Switch on a program that opens with Haydn’s cheerful Symphony No. 96, “The Miracle.” The night closes with a performance of selections from Prokofiev’s…
RR Heads to Memphis!
Next week, we’ll be in Memphis for the annual Blues Foundation gathering; Hall of Fame celebration and Blues Awards ceremony, with plenty of music and soulful food in between. Doug MacLeod, Fiona Boyes and drummer Jimi Bott are all up for awards. All of this years nominees represent a special group in the blues universe and we’re thrilled to be working with 3 of them. Fiona Boyes will perform at the awards and the Hall…
Dawn To Dust a “gratifying” recording
“Dawn to Dust shows the broad diversity among contemporary American composers and presents a wide range of styles and quality of work. And each is played with fervor and passion. Nico Muhly’s Control…is distinctively American and calls to mind Aaron Copland’s Western inspired works. Andrew Norman’s Switch… is a tour de force piece that puts the virtuosity of both the soloist and orchestra on full display. It’s a fabulously dynamic piece that takes the listener…
Dawn To Dust is Second Inversion’s Album of the Week!
“Utah Symphony and Thierry Fischer present an immaculately conceived performance of works by three of our most prominent composers of the moment: Augusta Read Thomas, Nico Muhly, and Andrew Norman. … Utah Symphony really wows in Augusta’s music: the way challenging runs pass through the entire orchestra with perfect precision and ensemble is truly something for the ears to behold… [Control is] a fascinating work, such a far evolution from Muhly’s earlier minimalist-influenced textures, although…
New York Times features the Utah Symphony!
The New York Times features Thierry Fischer and the Utah Symphony before their Carnegie Hall performance this Friday (4/29/2016)! “…the [Utah Symphony] can take pride in how it has blossomed under its new music director, Thierry Fischer — just in time for the current 75th anniversary season. An ambitious overhaul of personnel and programming is bearing fruit, as evidenced by an excellent new recording of commissioned works by Nico Muhly, Augusta Read Thomas and Andrew…
From Utah To Carnegie Hall!
Online magazine Smile Politely highlights the upcoming Utah Symphony tour on their way to next week’s Carnegie Hall Performance! “The Utah Symphony will perform a concert of varied works at the Foellinger Great Hall of Urbana’s Krannert Center on April 27. This is an orchestra from a seemingly small market that has earned a world-class pedigree through a legacy of fine recordings and superb playing. Current Music Director, Thierry Fischer, is touring his superb ensemble…
New RR Recordings featured in Symphomania!
WQXR’s Q2 Music is celebrating their second-annual Symphomania this Sunday (April 24, 2016) — and included in the event will be our new recording of John Mackey’s Wine Dark Sea featuring Jerry Junkin and the University of Texas Wind Ensemble as well as Andrew Norman’s Switch and Augusta Read Thomas’ EOS from the Utah Symphony’s new Dawn To Dust recording! Join Q2 Music on Sunday, April 24 (with an encore presentation Tuesday, April 26) for…
Dawn To Dust Impresses The Arts Fuse
“It’s no secret that 2016 has already been a strong year for albums featuring new and recent music… Now things get even better with the release of Dawn to Dust, a collection of three scores commissioned and performed by the Utah Symphony and its music director, Thierry Fischer. The highlight of the disc is the debut recording of Andrew Norman’s riotous Switch, a percussion concerto that’s played here with aplomb by Colin Curie. Over the…
Chicago Tribune Raves for Manfred Honeck’s Tchaikovsky!
Manfred Honeck led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in performances of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony this past February, and the performance reviews (see the more reviews) should give a great preview of what to expect with the upcoming Pittsburgh Symphony recording of Tchaikovsky and Dvořák! “Honeck was a model of farsighted musical intelligence and no-nonsense command. For years he served as a violinist with the Vienna Philharmonic and his experience there showed in the singing warmth of…