San Francisco Classical Voice interviews Manfred Honeck before his performances of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony and Shostakovich’s Suite on the Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti with the San Francisco Symphony. See the excerpt below and visit SFCV.org for the full interview: At one point in that same Times piece, you said, “I’m an instrument … to make my profession more honest.” When has the profession not been honest? What I meant, probably, was that you have to…
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Mark Donahue & John Newton, engineers; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)