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Manfred Honeck Returns To New York
May 3-8, 2018, Manfred Honeck will lead the New York Philharmonic in four performances featuring selections from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty, Sibelius’ Violin Concerto, and his arrangement of Dvořák’s Rusalka Fantasy! For more information, see the official press release on Broadway World, and for tickets, visit nyphil.org. Hear Manfred Honeck’s recording of the Dvořák Rusalka Fantasy on his Tchaikovsky/Dvořák recording with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra! Manfred Honeck Recordings on FRESH! From Reference Recordings
Pittsburgh Symphony’s Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 LIVE
Enjoy an on-demand look at the Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 at the Lucerne Festival: Get the Recording Order Now Music HDTracks NativeDSD Spotify
Pittsburgh Symphony Tchaikovsky an American Record Guide Best of 2016
American Record Guide critics have listed their “Critics Choice” recordings for 2016, and editor Donald Vroon has nominated the Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck’s Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6. “Here is a symphony that has been recorded a great deal. Even conductors who don’t like Tchaikovsky have recorded it, probably because of the challenges it presents. So naturally there have been a great many routine performances under conductors who have no real feeling for it. Manfred…
Pittsburgh Symphony On Fanfare Want Lists!
Three Fanfare Magazine critics have Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s recordings on their 2016 year-end “Want Lists”: Order Now Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 “Manfred Honeck’s Beethoven… helps you to recapture the shock of the new. There is nothing gimmicky or freakish about it, but I wasn’t 10 seconds into this SACD before I sat up and took notice. The booklet contains Honeck’s almost blow-by-blow description of both symphonies, and it is…
New MusicWeb International Review for Pittsburgh Tchaikovsky/Dvořák
Brian Reinhart pens the third MusicWeb International review for Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 and Dvořák Rusalka Fantasy recording: “The Pittsburgh Symphony is one of the world’s great orchestras, here displaying rich, lush old-world strings which bring to mind conductor Manfred Honeck’s experience in Vienna. The brass section is thrillingly punchy and forward, as is the timpanist. Honeck has good ideas about the symphony, like occasionally dialing back the…
Pittsburgh Symphony Nominated for Symphonic ICMA!
Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Tchaikovsky/Dvořák recording has been nominated for in the Symphonic Category of the 2017 International Classical Music Awards! Winners will be announced on January 2017 with an awards ceremony and gala in Leipzig, Germany on April 1st. “The International Classical Music Awards recognise creativity, imagination in choice of repertoire and artistic excellence.” Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6; Dvořák Rusalka Fantasy Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Manfred Honeck Reference Recordings Amazon iTunes…
Pittsburgh Symphony’s Tchaikovsky & Dvořák a “Winner”
“Manfred Honeck has a winner here again with the Pittsburgh Symphony. It would be hard to praise this recording too much. Not only does he bring us the most exciting recorded Tchaikovsky “Pathetique” I know—plus arrange a fine unified suite from Dvořák’s Rusalka—he’s taken trouble to pen the best CD program notes I recall reading anywhere, complete with audio index points and examples of what he’s trying to accomplish. Honeck’s observations about Tchaikovsky’s life and…
Culture Spot LA Reviews Pittsburgh Symphony’s Tchaikovsky/Dvořák
“The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Reference Recordings are on a mission: to record some of the world’s greatest symphonic works under the unique direction of its music director Manfred Honeck. The latest offering is a recording of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, “Pathétique.” And just as with the previous recordings by Honeck and the PSO, Honeck takes the listener on a musical journey with the Tchaikovsky. Not content to just play…
ClassicsToday Celebrates Pittsburgh’s Tchaikovsky and Dvořák Pairing
“You would expect Honeck to respond to the passion and intensity of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony, and so he does. The wild first movement development and exciting scherzo handily capture the music’s dynamism, and the playing is, as usual, terrific. What lingers in the mind most, though, is Honeck’s ability to project the despairing finale in a single arch from start to finish. There’s something about his phrasing that captures the music’s flow with special conviction;…
Pittsburgh Symphony’s Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 is “Completely Satisfying”
“I have effusively praised the previous efforts of Manfred Honeck, the Pittsburgh Symphony, and the Soundmirror recording team, and this is yet another winner.…this one rises to the top in recording quality, and the performance is outstanding. … it’s appropriately dramatic and completely satisfying—and the accompanying Rusalka Fantasy, by Dvorák, is a delight.” —Kalman Rubinson, Stereophile See the full review on Stereophile.com Reference Recordings Amazon iTunes Native DSD Arkiv Music
Pittsburgh Symphony Brings American Record Guide to Tears
American Record Guide critic Donald Vroon is moved by the latest Pittsburgh Symphony recording of Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6: “Here is a symphony that has been recorded a great deal. Even conductors who don’t like Tchaikovsky have recorded it, probably because of the challenges it presents. So naturally there have been a great many routine performances under conductors who have no real feeling for it. Manfred Honeck is not among them. I don’t know him…
Pittsburgh Symphony LIVE from Berlin Now on YouTube!
The Pittsburgh Symphony with Music Director Manfred Honeck conducting plays Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony and No. 6 and the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 2 with Daniil Trifonov soloist. From the Philharmonie in Berlin June May 22 2016. Interviews include Manfred Honeck, Principal Contrabassoon James Rodgers, Trombone James Nova, Violinist Alison Fujito and President and CEO Melia Tourangeau with Jim Cunningham Artistic Director Jim Cunningham, host. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74…
Pittsburgh Symphony Tchaikovsky/Dvořák “Once In A Lifetime”
“I want to suggest listening to what I believe to be a one in a lifetime audition: the newest record of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by its music director, the Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck.… However, more than the high technical quality, I was deeply moved by the artistic quality when performing Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6. It is one of my favourite works, one I have listened to again and again performed by various orchestras. It…
Classical CD Review Features Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony
“For Reference Recodings, there are SACDs of Strauss symphonic poems, and Dvorák’s Symphony No. 8 coupled with a suite from Janacek’s opera Jenufa. Now we have three more SACDS of live recordings all made in the fine acoustics of Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts. All of these are superlative, virtuoso performances. The Beethoven symphonies are high energy throughout, with a rather frantic but exiting pace for the final two movements of Symphony No.…
“Thoughtful and Thought-Provoking” Tchaikovsky
John Quinn reviews Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 and Dvořák Rusalka recording in MusicWeb International: “In summary Honeck’s performance of this symphony is a thoughtful and thought-provoking rendition of a score that can suffer from over-familiarity.” —John Quinn, MusicWeb International 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