On 3 December at 8 pm (GMT) British radio channel classic.fm broadcasts a concert of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted Manfred Honeck, that was played in Heinz Hall / Pittsburgh in September 2015.
Find here the link with the announcement of the concert. For interested listeners outside the UK we recommend a mobile app with international radio channels.
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”.
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.
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.
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck presents its new SACD: Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4. The recording will be published on 10 February 2015 by Reference Recordings in the version of 1878/80.
Manfred Honeck who has been Music Director in Pittsburgh since the 2008/2009 season writes about the recording: “For me, it was essential to adjust the Bruckner sound to match the character and nature of the ‘Romantic’ music, seeking a variety of colors ranging from the enormity of the sound blocks to also unbelievably soft and lyric playing.”
Please click here for a sound impression.
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, Music Director of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, will conduct this year’s Christmas Eve Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Honeck will lead an orchestra composed of musicians from Rome and throughout the world in Et Incarnatus Est from Mozart’s Mass in C minor. Israeli singer Chen Reiss will sing one of the solo parts.
The Christmas Mass will be celebrated by Pope Francis and broadcast live beginning at 3:30 p.m. EST on EWTN TV and radio, Vatican Radio and the Vatican Youtube channel, among others.
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.
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.
Our artists have recorded various CDs that will be released over the upcoming months.