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Pittsburgh Symphony Offers a “revelatory” Tchaikovsky and Dvořák
New Graham Williams review on HRAudio.net! “It is fair to say that Manfred Honeck’s series of live recordings with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra of music by Richard Strauss, Dvorak, Bruckner and Beethoven on the Reference Recordings Fresh! label have been revelatory, even to those listeners who are very familiar with the works featured on them that are, by and large, cornerstones of the orchestral repertoire. The main work on this latest release is Tchaikovsky’s Symphony…
Watch the Pittsburgh Symphony Berlin Performance Replay!
Under the baton of Manfred Honeck, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra joins Daniil Trifonov on the stage of the Berlin Philharmonie. Watch the replay of the concert broadcast on medici.tv. The program features Beethoven’s Coriolanus, the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6. Watch on Medici.TV Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 Dvořák: Rusalka Fantasy (arr. Honeck/Ille) Pittsburgh Symphony OrchestraManfred Honeck, Music DirectorFR-720 Reference Recordings Amazon iTunes Native DSD…
See Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony LIVE this weekend!
This Sunday at 2pm (Eastern US Time) you can stream Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony live in concert from the Berlin Philharmonie! Under the baton of Manfred Honeck, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra joins Daniil Trifonov on the stage of the Berlin Philharmonie. Watch this concert broadcast live from Berlin on medici.tv. The program features Beethoven’s Coriolanus, the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6. Live stream details at Medici.TV Tchaikovsky:…
MusicWeb Says Pittsburgh Symphony in “World Class Form”
“Consistently impressive is the ongoing ‘Pittsburgh Live!’ series from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under its music director Manfred Honeck. I made its release of the Beethoven Symphonies No’s 5 and 7 as one of my ‘Records of the Year’ for 2015. Now for the fifth album in this enthusiastically admired series Honeck has turned his attention to Tchaikovsky’s enduringly popular Sixth Symphony ‘Pathétique’ together with the world première recording of the newly arranged ‘Rusalka Fantasy’.…
Pittsburgh Symphony “Stunning” new Tchaikovsky & Dvořák Recording
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review offers a fantastic new review for Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony before they head to Europe tomorrow! “The new recording by Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, released May 13, is worth acquiring for many reasons including individual and compelling performances of both familiar and novel repertoire and stunning quality of recorded sound. … Honeck sets the context for and explains many details of his interpretation of “Pathetique” in his…
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 & Dvořák Rusalka Fantasy Available NOW!
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 Dvořák: Rusalka Fantasy (arr. Honeck/Ille) Pittsburgh Symphony OrchestraManfred Honeck, Music DirectorFR-720 Reference Recordings Amazon iTunes Native DSD Arkiv Music A brilliant new interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s final symphony, a work of great originality and power, in superb audiophile sound! Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky said of his Symphony No. 6: “But I absolutely consider it to be the best, and in particular, the most sincere of all my creations.…
New Pittsburgh Symphony Recording out TOMORROW!
Coming TOMORROW! 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! A brilliant new interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s final symphony, a work of great originality and power, in superb audiophile sound! Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky said of his Symphony No. 6: “But I absolutely consider it to be the best, and in particular, the most sincere of all my creations. I…
Pittsburgh Symphony European Tour
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Manfred Honeck depart for a 14-concert European Tour across four countries on May 17 and will be joined by soloists Daniil Trifonov, Martin Grubinger, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Leonidas Kavakos! The tour program features Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies No. 4, 5 and 6; Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture; Dvořák’s Carnival Overture; Haydn’s Symphony No. 93; Hartl’s Percussion Concerto (with Grubinger); Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Trifonov);…
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…
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…
First Listen — Pittsburgh Symphony: Tchaikovsky/Dvořák!
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! A brilliant new interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s final symphony, a work of great originality and power, in superb audiophile sound! Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky said of his Symphony No. 6: “But I absolutely consider it to be the best, and in particular, the most sincere of all my creations. I love it…
American Record Guide Reviews Pittsburgh Symphony’s Beethoven!
“The music is always pressing forward, as on a life-or-death mission. It’s dramatic and exciting…this is Beethoven driven by a carefully thought-out, masterly vision that’s brilliantly executed. None of this would work very well if the Pittsburgh Symphony were not fully up to the task. I’d be hard-pressed to say you’ll hear more technical dexterity or intensity of execution in Vienna or Berlin or Amsterdam. … I like it very much. Honeck’s interpretation of the…
Boston Concert Reviews Recommends Pittsburgh Symphony’s Beethoven Symphony Nos. 5 & 7
“These performances are ravishing in their expansive sound and buoyancy. Each movement brings new gifts to explore: the expressive weight of the strings (all vibrant tones and capacious plucks); the ringing out of brass choruses thunderous and deep in the stage or the highest piccolo leaps tremulous and fragile. Honeck has the orchestra working with great alertness as to each intrepid moment in Beethoven’s brilliant writing. … This is a superb recording, especially in its…
Honeck and Pittsburgh’s Beethoven a Recording for the Ages
The Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck’s BEETHOVEN: Symphony Nos. 5 & 7 recording receives perfect 10 ratings from ClassicsToday: “No matter how many billion recordings of this music we already have, a great performance offers its own justification, these are very great performances. … It’s not easy to offer interpretations of this music that sound new without turning capricious–that both respect the music and personalize it. Honeck and the orchestra manage to pull it off…