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.
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 68 in B-flat Major, Hob. I/68
Mason Bates: Violin Concerto
Camille Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 “Organ”
Arild Remmereit, conductor
Gil Shaham, violin
George Walker: Sinfonia No. 4 “Strands”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219 “Turkish”
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13 “Winter Dreams”
Manfred Honeck, conductor
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Michael Daugherty: Fifteen: Symphonic Fantasy on the Art of Andy Warhol
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor"
Igor Stravinsky: Suite from The Firebird
Manfred Honeck, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violin
Arturo Marquez: Danzon No. 2
Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45