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
Mikhail Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
Manfred Honeck, conductor
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Wynton Marsalis: Herald, Holler and Hallelujah
Benjamin Britten: Piano Concerto No. 1
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Manfred Honeck, conductor
Kian Soltani, cello
Erwin Schulhof: Five Pieces
Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
Reza Vali: "The Girl from Shiraz" from Persian Folk Songs
Michael Daugherty: Fifteen: Symphonic Fantasy on the Art of Andy Warhol
Manfred Honeck, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Ramos Triano: why?
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major
Manfred Honeck, conductor
Emanuel Ax, piano
Giacomo Puccini (arranged by Manfred Honeck and Thomas Ille): Symphonic Suite from Turandot
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
Manfred Honeck, conductor
Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh
Lauren Snouffer, soprano; Dashon Burton, bass-baritone
Beatrice Rana, piano
Jessie Montgomery: Source Code
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
Francis Poulenc: Gloria
Antonin Dvorak: Te Deum, Op. 103