Reference Recordings® proudly presents the beloved Requiem of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in a very special interpretation. Academy Award and Golden-Globe-winning film and Broadway star F. Murray Abraham joins Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for Honec...
The Grammy for ‘Best Engineered Album, Classical’ went to engineers Mark Donahue and John Newton for their recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony and Mason Bates’s Resurrexit, performed by Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck (Reference Recording...
The CD of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Manfred Honeck with the recordings of Bruckner’s 7th Symphony and Mason Bates’ Resurexit was voted CD of the Year 2024 by Music Web International! Even without checking the archive of the previous 21 years, it...
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Manfred Honeck will begin their European tour on August 22 with a concert at the Salzburg Festival as the only US American orchestra being presented this summer and continues on to Grafenegg, Merano, Hamburg (2x),...
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director, Manfred Honeck, will be touring Europe again in 2024, including the concert dates on August 22 in Salzburg with Yefim Bronfman (piano) and on August 25 in Grafenegg with Maria Dueñas (violin). Further dates will...
The most recent recording of the Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 and Schulhoff’s Five Pieces was listed by The New York Times, New Yorker, and Gramophone as one of the best recordings of the year. The CD was re...
We are delighted that two of our artists’ CDs have been nominated for international awards this week: Midori’s recording of the Beethoven sonatas for piano and violin with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Warner Classics) has been nominated for the International...
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Music Director Manfred Honeck and Reference Recordings present a new recording of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 and Erwin Schulhoff’s Five Pieces, newly arranged for large orchestra by Manfred Honeck and Tomáš Ille. Schulhof...
Premieres, new productions, awards and special concert programs – below you will find an overview of what our artists will be featuring on international concert stages in the coming months....
Disrupt, PSO’s brand-new music event series, kicks off April 15 with Persist, an evening of Shostakovich and his dramatic Symphony No. 10, combining classical music with interactive pre-concert activities, themed cocktails, visual projections, and backstage glimps...
Until the beginning of September, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Music Director Manfred Honeck are on tour through Europe – at 11 concerts in nine European cities, the musicians will perform works by Mahler, Beethoven, Ligeti, Strauss and Chkovsky, among o...
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Music Director Manfred Honeck with President and CEO Melia Tourangeau are thrilled to announce that David McCarroll has been appointed concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, holding the Rachel Mellon Walton Concertmaster Chair,...
Das Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra und Manfred Honeck präsentieren auf der neuen SACD bei Reference Recordings Live-Aufnahmen von Beethovens Symphonie Nr. 6 “Pastorale“ und Steven Stucky Silent Spring. Die Aufnahme ist ab dem 10. Juni weltweit erhältlich. &...
Manfred Honeck has been Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since 2008; last year, at the orchestra’s request, his contract was extended through the 2027/28 season. After seven successful European tours, Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony w...
With its record label Reference Recordings, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck announce a new recording: Brahms Symphony No. 4 and MacMillan Larghetto for Orchestra. This release coincides with the Orchestra’s 2021-2022 season and its joyful return ...
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra announced the 2021-2022 season and will welcome back audiences to Heinz Hall with full orchestra for the first time in 18 months in September 2021 when its new season begins. The 2021-2022 season is also the 50th anniversary of Heinz Ha...
On 25 March at 11:30 CET, the recording of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck will be featured on Ö1’s Des Cis program. The broadcast can be heard live and afterwards here....
This Saturday, Music Director @ManfredHoneck returns to the stage for the first time in more than a year! Create a free account and take your seat → https://t.co/H0XkrksAeq pic.twitter.com/l4FOH1Zi5t — Pittsburgh Symphony (@pghsymphony) March 9, 2021...
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Manfred Honeck celebrate the orchestra’s 125th anniversary with the release of a new recording with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Reference Recordings. The recording features soloists Christina Landshamer, J...
The latest recording of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 and Leshnoff’s Double Concerto for Clarinet & Bassoon is one of the “Best classical albums released in 2020” which were chosen by BBC Music Magaz...
On 28 October at 9 pm on Classic FM – the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Manfred Honeck. The program includes the Polovtsian Dances from Borodin’s opera Prince Igor, before the Canadian violinist James Ehnes takes the podium for Mozart̵...
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is one of the top orchestras in North America and celebrates its 125th anniversary this year. With its principal conductor Manfred Honeck and star pianist Igor Levit, it made a guest appearance at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf in 2019 as par...
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and it’s Music Director Manfred Honeck announce the release of a new recording, pairing Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 with the world premiere of leading American composer Jonathan Leshnoff’s Double Concerto for Clarinet and Bassoon...
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Tonight the production of Beethoven’s Fidelio (1806) at the Theater an der Wien, conducted by Manfred Honeck, will be broadcasted on ORF 2 and myfidelio.at. Directed by Christoph Waltz. “The performances had already been sold out for weeks, but due to the cu...
Listen to Manfred Honeck’s talk about the world of classical music behind the scenes on BR KlassikPlus on Thursday, 12 March at 7:05 pm here....
Under the banner “Pittsburgh Symphony and You: Extraordinary Together”, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Manfred Honeck announced its 125th anniversary season yesterday that will feature special artist debuts, collaborations and concerts. ...
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from March to May 2020 at a glance. You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website. Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de....
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s recording of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 has received three nominations for next year’s Grammy Awards 2020: Best Orchestral Performance: Manfred Honeck, conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) Best Engineered Album, Clas...
On Friday the 25th European Tour of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra starts. With its Music Director Manfred Honeck, the American top orchestra performs eleven concerts in ten cities and five countries and debuts in the Philharmonie de Paris and the Elbphilharmonie Ham...
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from December 2019 to February 2020 at a glance. You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website. Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de....
The new CD by Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will be released on 23 August 2019. With the recording of Bruckner’s 9th Symphony, the PSO and Manfred Honeck continue their successful collaboration with Reference Recordings. Manfred Honeck, cond...
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from September to November 2019 at a glance. You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website. Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de....
From 25 October to 8 November 2019, the PSO will go on a major European tour with Manfred Honeck, including the Berlin and Paris Philharmonie, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and the Vienna Musikverein. The pianists Lang Lang and Igor Levit as well as the baritone Matthias....
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from June until August 2019 at a glance. You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website. Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de. ...
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Manfred Honeck have recently revealed their new season 2019/20: In autumn 2019 they will embark on an 11-concert, 10-city, five-country European Tour. Further highlights include the performance of the work Fountai...
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) has long been in the shadow of the Big Five. Wrong, says music journalist Alain Steffen in his new book “Let’s talk about …”. Alain Steffen tells the story of the orchestra since its beginning in the year 1...
In the Beethoven year 2020, conductor Manfred Honeck will lead the opera “Fidelio” (2nd version, 1806) at the Theater an der Wien, staged by the actor Christoph Waltz. Find here the press release of the Theater an der Wien....
Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra have been nominated for three Grammys with their current CD (Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” and Strauss’s Horn Concerto No. 1) with the Label Reference Recordings, in the categories “...
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from March until May 2019 at a glance. You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website. Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de....
On 10 November, Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck will step in for sickened Mariss Jansons for a concert with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and pianist Igor Levit. On the program will be Mahler’s symphony No. 1 and Beethovens piano concert No. 4. Find here...
Together with Lang Lang and Anne-Sophie Mutter, Manfred Honeck and the Staatskapelle Berlin will present the anniversary concert, celebrating 120 years of Deutsche Grammophon. The concert will take place on Tuesday, 6 November at Berlin Philharmonie. Find here further i...
Manfred Honeck, Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since 2008, has extended his contract with the PSO through season 2021/22. Over the last quarter century, Manfred Honeck has firmly established himself as one of the world’s leading conductors, renown...
On Saturday, 22 September, Manfred Honeck will conduct the celebration concert on the occasion of the 470. birthday of Staatskapelle Dresden. The concert will take place in the Kulturpalast Dresden. On the program will be works by Dvorak and Brahms. Find here more infor...
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from December 2018 until February 2019 at a glance. You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website. Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de....
On 17 September, Manfred Honeck will celebrate his 60. Birthday. In honour of this anniversary, the PSO has commissioned a new work by American composer Mason Bates, Resurrexit, which will have its world premiere on 28 September in Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh. Mason Bates is...
On September 21, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and their Music Director Manfred Honeck will release their new CD, presenting Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” as well as Strauss’ Horn concerto No. 1 (William Caballero – Horn) with the...
Manfred Honeck will take over four concerts with the Concertgebouw Orchester in the end of August and early September. He will step in for Daniele Gatti. Soloist will be soprano Anett Fritsch. Find here all four concerts as an overview: 23 August – Amsterdam, Conc...
On Thursday, 2 August Austrian Manfred Honeck will conduct a Concert for Peace (1918-2018) in the Stephansdom in Vienna. He will lead the European Union Youth Orchestra. Among others singers Thomas Hampson and Luca Pisaroni will perform during the concert. Please find h...
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from September until November 2018 at a glance. You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website. Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de....
On 8 and 10 June, conductor Manfred Honeck will conduct the world premiere of a piece by Pittsburgh composer Reza Vali with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in Heinz Hall. The work was commissioned by the PSO on the occasion of Manfred Honeck’s 10the anniversary ...
On 12, 13 and 15 April Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck will be guest with the Munich Philharmonic at the Philharmonic Hall Gasteig. On the program will be Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, sung by the Philharmonic Choir Munich. Find here further information on these conce...
Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck was awarded “Conductor of the Year” 2018 by the ICMA in January 2018. On 6 April 2018 the Award Ceremony & Gala Concert will take place in Katowice in Poland. Manfred Honeck will conduct the Polish National Radio Symphon...
Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck will conduct two concerts with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra on 22 and 23 March 2018 at Alte Oper Frankfurt. Soloist of the concerts will be violist Antoine Tamestit. Works by MacMillan, Walton and Tchaikovsky will be on the pr...
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from June until August 2018 at a glance. You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website. Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de....
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Manfred Honeck have announced season 2018/19. Under the direction of Manfred Honeck, the PSO will welcome a number of world-renowned return and debut guest conductors, composers/commissions and soloists to Heinz H...
The latest CD by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 and Barber’s Adagio (Reference Recordings) has won two Grammy Awards 2018: the Grammy for “Best Orchestra Performance” as well as for “...
On Sunday, 21 January 2018 at 21:05 the concert with cellist Jan Vogler, conductor Manfred Honeck and Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin (from 10 January 2018) at Berlin Philharmonie will be broadcast at Deutschlandfunk. Among others, the world premiere of Daj Fujikura...
Conductor and Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck has been awarded the International Classical Music Award 2018 “Artist of the Year“. This has been officially announced today, 18 January 2018 by the ICMA. Manfred Honeck: “It is a gre...
German cellist Jan Vogler and conductor Manfred Honeck will be guest at the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin on 10 January 2018 in the Philharmonie Berlin. Jan Vogler will perform the world premiere of Dai Fujikura’s cello concerto. Further works by Debussy an...
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from March until May 2018 at a glance. You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website. Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de....
The International Classical Music Award (ICMA) has nominated the most current CD by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck with Shostakovich’s 5. Symphony and Barber’s Adagio for the award ceremony in 2018. Find the list of nominees here. The a...
Conductor Manfred Honeck, Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, will conduct the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra WDR on 12, 13 and 14 October in Essen (12 October) and in Cologne (13 & 14 October). On the programm will be Beethoven’s Piano conc...
Find here the list of new CD, DVD and book releases of PR² classic artists in 2017 as an overview....
Listen and watch Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on their big Europe Festival tour live at Lucerne Festival on Facebook – on 6 September at 21:00 (CET) performing Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique“! Click, like and share here: http...
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from December 2017 until February 2018 at a glance. You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website. Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de....
On 28 August 2017 the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and their Music Director Manfred Honeck celebrated the start of this year’s Europe festival tour at the Rheingau Musik Festival in Wiesbaden. Until 8 September they will further be guests at the Salzburg Festival...
Today, 18 August the new CD of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck will be released on the label Reference Recordings. Shostakovich’s 5. Symphony as well as Barber’s Adagio can be heard on this....
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from September until November 2017 at a glance. You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website. Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de....
On Saturday, 15 July, Manfred Honeck will conduct the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra on the occasion of “Klassik am Odeonsplatz” with works by Dun, Corigliano, Hartl, Ziehrer, Dvorak and Shostakovich. Soloist will be percussionist Martin Grubinger. Find m...
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from July until September 2017 at a glance. You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website. Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de....
Find here the list of new CD, DVD and book releases of PR² classic artists in 2017 as an overview....
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from April until June 2017. You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website. Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de....
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from April until June 2017. You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website. Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de....
On 8 September 8 pm London time classic.fm will broadcast the concert from Berlin Philharmonie from 22 May 2016 on the occasion of the Europe Tour of Manfred Honeck and the PSO. Find here the program with pianist Daniil Trifonov....
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists in July and August 2016 at a glance. You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website. Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de....
Tomorrow, on Friday, 20 May, the tour start of the big Europe tour of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Manfred Honeck will take place in Kuppelsaal in Hannover, Germany. The orchestra will play 14 concerts in Germany, Austria, Belgium and Switzerland...
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra releases its new CD with Tchaikovsky’s 6th symphony and Dvořák’s Rusalka fantasy (Arr. Honeck / Ille) on 13 May 2016 by Reference Recordings. This release is the fifth in a series of multi-channel hybrid SACD recordings on the FRE...
Austrian Manfred Honeck conducts Concertgebouworkest on 12 and 14 February in Amsterdam. Together with baritone Matthias Goerne they will perform Mahler’s “Lieder aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn”. The orchestra will also play Beethoven’s 7 symphony. Fi...
From 20 May until 4 June the PSO and their Music Director Manfred Honeck go on big Europe Tour: Together with soloists Martin Grubinger, Daniil Trifonov, Anne Sophie Mutter and Leonidas Kavakos they will tour with 14 concerts through four countries (Germany, Austria, Sw...
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 intere...
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 201...
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, w...
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...
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 Pitt...
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 Je...
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 ...
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 an...
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 shor...
Our artists have recorded various CDs that will be released over the upcoming months. Please click here for all CD releases at a glance....
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 ...
Gramophone Magazine picked the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s recent recording of Strauss’s tone poems as one of its “Editor’s Choice” recordings for March 2014. The CD was released in November 2013 on Reference Recordings Fresh! label. Reviewer Ivan March sa...
