The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s BBC Proms Performance during their European Festival Tour Makes The Telegraph’s “Best of Proms” list:
“If you think orchestras have become blandly over-refined and anonymous, you clearly haven’t heard the Pittsburgh Symphony, who wowed a packed house at the Albert Hall through sheer force of personality and sound. The brass section especially was a marvel. … But it wasn’t all about sheer force. Oboist Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida made a beautifully wistful sound in the funeral march, and later in the same movement, the co-leaders of the violins made a sound drenched in old-Vienna nostalgia.…”