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Just in time for their European tour, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra directed by its music director Manfred Honeck will release two recordings on Exton: Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5.

Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 is the third of the orchestra’s Mahler recordings under Manfred Honeck and follows the successful recording of Symphonies No. 1 and 4. Soprano Michelle DeYoung, the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and the Children’s Festival Chorus perform together with the orchestra. The recording of Symphony No. 5 is planned to be released next in the Mahler cycle.

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 will be part of the programme during the European tour of the orchestra from 26 August to 11 September 2011. In this work it is “essential to watch the tiniest details of the varying moods and let every musical phrase become part of the whole story” says Manfred Honeck.

On their tour, the orchestra will be appearing at Rheingau Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Grafenegg Festival, BBC Proms, Lucerne Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, Musikfest Berlin, in Paris and Vilnius, Lithuania. Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and pianist Hélène Grimaud will be joining the orchestra on tour.


European Tour programme:

26 August, Wiesbaden, Friedrich-von-Thiersch-Saal, Rheingau Musik Festival
Rihm: Violin concerto »Lichtes Spiel« German premiere
Mendelssohn: Violin concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violin

27 August, Hamburg, Laeiszhalle, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
Rihm: Violin concerto »Lichtes Spiel«  
Mendelssohn: Violin concerto
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violin

29 August, Vilnius
Mendelssohn: Violin concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violin

1 September, Grafenegg Festival
Rihm: Violin concerto »Lichtes Spiel«
Mendelssohn: Violin concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violin

2 September, Grafenegg Festival
Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 4
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Hélène Grimaud, Piano

3 September, Luzern, Kultur- und Kongresszentrum, Lucerne Festival
Rihm: Violin concerto »Lichtes Spiel«
Mendelssohn: Violin concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violin

5 September, London, Royal Albert Hall, BBC Proms
Braunfels: Fantastic Appearances of a Theme by Hector Berlioz
Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 4
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Hélène Grimaud, Piano

6 September, London, Royal Albert Hall, BBC Proms
Rihm: Violin concerto »Gesungene Zeit«
Rihm: Violin concerto »Lichtes Spiel«
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violin

7 September, Paris, Salle Pleyel                
Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 4
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Hélène Grimaud, Piano

9 September, Bonn, Beethovenhalle, Beethovenfest Bonn
Rihm: Violin concerto »Lichtes Spiel«
Mendelssohn: Violin concerto
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violin

10 September, Bonn, Beethovenhalle, Beethovenfest Bonn
Beethoven: Piano concerto No. 4
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Hélène Grimaud, Piano

11 September, Berlin, Philharmonie, Musikfest Berlin
Wagner: Prelude to Lohengrin
Rihm: Violin concerto »Gesungene Zeit«
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violin