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Five Stars for Liebermann: Frankenstein from Pizzicato
Martin West and San Francisco Ballet Orchestra’s Lowell Liebermann: Frankenstein recording gets a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review from Remy Frank’s Pizzicato Magazine: “Lowell Liebermann’s score has a distinctly visual, plot-driven and dramatic character, and is absolutely brilliantly orchestrated, so that it is a great pleasure to hear this imaginative, colorful and richly ornamented music, pleasantly rich in movement. The distinctive themes for the acting characters and the descriptive music make it easy to follow the action purely…
Pizzicato Reviews Manfred Honeck and Pittsburgh Symphony’s Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Remy Franck reviews Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony’s recording of Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in Pizzicato Magazine: “Manfred Honeck is a conductor who thinks a lot about music… This always results in personal interpretations like this one. …There is plenty of excitement in his very detailed and pulsating interpretation, with emphatically bright colors and many a tumble in the woodwinds, in addition to some more austere-sounding passages (including the somewhat eerie funeral march at…
Four-Star Review for the Richmond Symphony from Pizzicato
The Richmond Symphony and Richmond Symphony Chorus’s Bates: Children of Adam; Vaughan-Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem recording gets a four-star rating from Remy Franck’s Pizzicato Magazine: “The work is eventful in its orchestration and varied in its moods… [and] musically rich… here spiritual and sensual, there reflective, sometimes also solemn. In contrast to the very colorful and complex orchestral part, the choral part is rooted in the chorale and hymn… [an] exciting live recording.” —Remy Franck,…
Pizzicato Gives Four Stars To The Dallas Winds’ Asphalt Cocktail Recording
Remy Frank’s Pizzicato Magazine gives four stars to the Dallas Winds’ new Asphalt Cocktail: The Music of John Mackey recording! “The performances by the Dallas Winds under Jerry Junkin are absolutely great, energetic in the fast works, wonderfully lyrical and atmospheric in the quieter pieces. The recorded sound is crystal-clear and reinforces the positive impression of this production which should satisfy every lover of brass music.” —Remy Franck, Pizzicato See the full review on Pizzicato.lu
Pizzicato Gives Supersonic Distinction to Pittsburgh Symphony’s Beethoven and Strauss
Pizzicato Magazine has given its “Supersonic” badge of distinction to the Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck‘s Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 and Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1 recording: “With an extremely inventive conducting, Manfred Honeck proves that one can still say something new in Beethoven’s Eroica, even with a modern symphony orchestra. Textually there are fascinating differences from what we are used to. The Funeral march is considered the centre of the symphony, and with Honeck…
Pizzicato Magazine Features the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Bruckner Recording
Luxembourg based Pizzicato Magazine has high praise for the new Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck Bruckner recording: “Blending modernism and tradition, opulent sound and chamber music like refinement, Manfred Honeck can fully count on the highly motivated Pittsburgh Symphony. The result is a superbly balanced and musically rich performance of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony.” —Alain Steffen, Pizzicato Read the full rave review in German www.pizzicato.lu! Buy Now!
Pizzicato Magazine with a Rave for the Pittsburgh Symphony!
Luxemburg’s Pizzicato Magazine has a new rave review for the Pittsburgh Symphony and their new Dvořák and Janáček recording: “This is one of the most gripping performances of Dvořák’s 8th Symphony that I ever heard. Honeck and Pittsburgh excel themselves and definitely team up to one of those great partnerships like Solti and Chicago, Ozawa and Boston, Bernstein and New York, Szell and Cleveland, Tilson-Thomas and San Francisco.” —Alain Steffen, Pizzicato Read the full review…
Pizzicato Calls Pittsburgh’s Strauss “Magic”
Luxemburg’s Pizzicato magazine has a new review for the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Strauss recording, titling it “Magic Sound from Pittsburgh.” “Manfred Honeck is one of the few conductors who may call themselves successors of the greatest, Karajan und Co. On this SACD this outstanding musician conducts a Strauss program which one must count among the best having been published in the last years.” —Alain Steffen, Pizzicato See the full review in the original language at www.pizzicato.lu…