This broadcast series, hosted by Jim Cunningham, presents concerts by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra recorded at Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts. Manfred Honeck has served as music director since the 2008-2009 season. The PSO has been heard on the air since radio began in Pittsburgh with early broadcasts on Pittsburgh’s KDKA in the 1920s. Its first network broadcasts appeared on NBC in 1936.
Manfred Honeck, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
Franz Schmidt: Symphony No. 4
Frederic Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 21
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
Lorin Maazel, conductor
Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 2, Op. 72
Rodion Shchedrin; Old Russian Circus Music
Robert Schumann; Manfred Overture
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
Manfred Honeck, conductor
Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh
Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin; Anne Martindale Williams, cello
Jeanine de Bique, soprano; Catriona Morison, mezzo-soprano; Ben Bliss, tenor; Tareq Nazmi, bass; F. Murray Abraham, speaker
Noah Bendix-Balgley: Fidl-Fantazye: A Klezmer Concerto
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin and Cello in B-flat Major, RV 547
Johann Strauss Sr. and Jr., Josef Strauss, Eduard Strauss: Family Waltzes and Polkas
James Macmillan: Her tears fell with the dews at even
Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished" D. 759
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K. 626