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.
Daniele Rustioni, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Victor de Sabata: Plato’s Night
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
Maurice Ravel: Dahnis et Chloe, Suites No. 1 and 2
Manfred Honeck, conductor
George Frideric Handel: Messiah
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida, oboe
Cindy Mctee: Double Play
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Jean Francaix: The Flower Clock
Benjamin Britten: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra