Grammy Nomination Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Manfred Honeck / Bruckner 4 (December 2015)

The SACD of Symphony No. 4 by Anton Bruckner, recorded by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Manfred Honeck has received a Grammy nomination (published in February 2015 at Reference Recordings). The award ceremony will take place on 15 February 2016.

This release is the third in a series of multi-channel hybrid SACD recordings on the FRESH! label by Reference Recordings with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck.Find here the list of nominations and at No. 74 “Best orchestral performance”.

Finden Sie hier die Liste der Nominierungen und unter Punkt 74 “Best orchestral Performance”.

Manfred Honeck on BBC Radio 3 (November 2015)

Listen to Manfred Honeck from 23 until 27 November each morning from 9-10 am (GMT) at “Essential Classics” with Rob Cowan and Ian Renkin at BBC Radio 3.

Honeck talks about various recordings (Reference Recordings) he did with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, whose Music Director he is.

Find here the link to the live-stream.

Manfred Honeck at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik-Festival (August 2015)

On 7 and 8 August conductor Manfred Honeck will stand at the rostrum of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra in Flensburg and Lübeck on the occasion of Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.

Together with percussionist Martin Grubinger they will perform the percussion concert by Bruno Hartl. Furthermore the orchestra will play Tchaikovsky’s 5. Symphony.

Please find here further information about program and tickets.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Manfred Honeck: new CD (February 2015)

Grammy Award Nomination for PSO (December 2014)

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra led by Music Director Manfred Honeck has been nominated for a 2015 Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance for its Dvořák/Janáček release.

The album, including Antonin Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 and the Symphonic Suite from Jenůfa by Leoš Janáček, has been released in July 2014 from Reference Recordings’ label.

The Grammy Awards Ceremony will be held February 8th, 2015.

Manfred Honeck conducts Christmas Eve Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica (December 2014)

Strauss CD of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra nominated for ICMA (November 2014)

The Strauss recording by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Music Director Manfred Honeck is nominated in the Symphonic Music category of the International Classic Music Awards. The CD with three of Strauss’ “Tondichtungen” – “Don Juan”, “Death and Transfiguration” and “Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks” was published in November 2013 by Reference Recordings.

The final result with the ICMA winners will be published January 20, 2015.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra: Season opening (September 2014)

Music Director Manfred Honeck welcomes Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter to the 2014-15 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra season on Sept. 13 with a gala concert “For Your Eyes Only”.

The evening promises a feast for all the senses, the Gala concert features a variety of short, evocative tone poems and opera pieces. Mutter closes the evening with a performance of one of the most popular works for violin, Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor.

CD release: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Manfred Honeck – Dvořák & Janáček (July 2014)

Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra have recorded a new CD that will be published by Reference Recordings at the beginning of July, featuring Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 and Janáček’s Symphonic Suite from Jenůfa, arranged by Czech composer Tomáš Ille and conceptualised by Manfred Honeck. This release is the second in a series of multi-channel hybrid SACD recordings on the FRESH! label by Reference Recordings with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck.

At the beginning of the 2014-15 season, Manfred Honeck will conduct the NDR-Sinfonieorchester, the Vienna and Bamberg Symphony Orchestras, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In Pittsburgh, he opens the new season on 13 September with a gala concert featuring Anne-Sophie Mutter.

Manfred Honeck’s concert dates at the beginning of the 14-15 season at a glance:

13 September, Pittsburgh, Heinz Hall – Gala
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Bruch: Violin concerto
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Violin

19-21 September, Pittsburgh, Heinz Hall
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Bates: Rusty Air in Carolina
Rachmaninoff:  Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini op. 43
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique op. 14a
Valentina Lisitsa, Piano

8-10 October, Prag, Rudolfinum
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Janacek: Suite from Jenůfa
Strauss: Death and Transfiguration
Mahler: Lieder from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn”
Matthias Goerne, Bariton

16/19 October, Hamburg, Laeiszhalle
NDR-Sinfonieorchester
MacMillan: Woman of the Apocalypse
Mozart: Piano concerto C Major KV 503
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Martin Helmchen, Piano

17 October, Luebeck, Musik- und Kongresshalle
s. 16 October

30/31 October, Vienna, Musikverein
Wiener Symphoniker
Prokofieff: Piano concerto No. 3
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 “Titan”
Yuja Wang, Piano

16 November, Bamberg, Konzerthalle
Bamberger Symphoniker
Widmann: “Con brio” – Concert Overture for orchestra
Weber: Clarinet concerto No. 1
Brahms: Symphony No. 4
Jörg Widmann, Clarinet

17 November, Erlangen, Stadthalle
s. 16 November

28/30 November, Pittsburgh, Heinz Hall
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Thanksgiving
Alexskey Igudesman – Violin, Hyung-Ki Joo – Piano

5-7 December, Pittsburgh, Heinz Hall
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

11/12/13/16 December, Chicago, Symphony Hall
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Haydn: Symphony No. 93
Strauss: Don Juan
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7