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AllMusic Reviews Pittsburgh Symphony’s Tchaikovsky and Leshnoff
AllMusic’s James Manheim gives a four-and-a-half star rating to Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 & Leshnoff: Double Concerto recording: “the Symphony No. 4 has rarely received such an intense performance… The Pittsburgh Symphony is in fine form in the symphony’s thrilling brass passages and in the all-pizzicato strings of the third movement. The accompanying Double Concerto for clarinet and bassoon by Leshnoff is also a pleasure: a neo-Romantic work agreeably…
AllMusic Highly Recommends Shostakovich Barber
Order Now AllMusic rates the new Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio recording a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️½ rating: “… an excellent contribution to the Shostakovich discography, even in the face of all the other versions of this work on the market. … masterful, deliberate, but never plodding performance by Honeck, with the Pittsburgh brasses sounding as good as they have in years. The Barber Adagio for Strings is an inspired note…