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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck – Dvorak, Janacek – Symphony No. 8, Symphonic Suite (2014)
DSF Stereo DSD64/2.82MHz | Time – 01:02:02 minutes | 6,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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Recorded: October 11-13, 2013
Nominated for 2015 GRAMMY Award! Best Orchestral Performance.
For more than 116 years, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has been known for its artistic excellence. The PSO has a rich history of the world’s finest conductors and musicians. Past conductors include the legendary names of Reiner, Steinberg, Previn, Maazel,and other greats. This tradition was furthered in fall 2008, when celebrated Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck became Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra..
The PSO is critically acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest orchestras, and has completed more than 36 international tours, including 20 European tours, eight trips to the Far East, and two to South America. The PSO was the first American orchestra to perform at the Vatican in January 2004 for the late Pope John Paul II, as part of the Pontiff’s Silver Jubilee celebration.
The PSO also has a long history in the areas of recordings and radio concerts. As early as 1936, the PSO broadcast coast-to-coast, receiving increased national attention in 1982 when it began network radio broadcasts on Public Radio International. The PRI series with the PSO can be heard on Classical WQED-FM 89.3 in Pittsburgh. Many PSO recordings remain in print and available, and they have won critical acclaim and many awards..
This release and the entire “Pittsburgh Live!”series are recorded and mastered by the team at Soundmirror, whose outstanding orchestral, solo, opera, and chamber recordings have received over 70 GRAMMY nominations and awards! Soundmirror has recorded for every major classical record label, now including Reference Recordings.
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg – Wagner: Orchestral Works (Remastered 2022) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:23:48 minutes | 1,50 GB | Genre: Classical
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Steinberg was born Hans Wilhelm Steinberg in Cologne, Germany. He displayed early talent as a violinist, pianist, and composer, conducting his own choral/orchestral composition (based on texts from Ovid’s Metamorphoses) at age 13. In 1914, he began studies at the Cologne Conservatory, where his piano teacher was the Clara Schumann pupil Lazzaro Uzielli and his conducting mentor was Hermann Abendroth. He graduated with distinction, winning the Wüllner Prize for conducting, in 1919. He immediately became a second violinist in the Cologne Opera orchestra, but was dismissed from the position by Otto Klemperer for using his own bowings. He was soon re-hired by Klemperer as an assistant, and in 1922, he conducted Fromental Halévy’s opera La Juive as a substitute. When Klemperer left in 1924, Steinberg served as Principal Conductor. He left a year later, in 1925, for Prague, where he was conductor of the German Theater. He next took the position of music director of the Frankfurt Opera. In 1930, in Frankfurt, he conducted the world premiere of Arnold Schoenberg’s Von heute auf morgen.
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra – Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 – 4 & Tragic Ouverture (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:48:26 minutes | 3,39 GB | Genre: Classical
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William Steinberg was recognized as one of the world’s greatest interpreters of the Brahms Symphonies. “Luxurious sound … Above all, Steinberg makes his Brahms sing” is how the New York Times commented on the 4th symphony with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at the time of the original release in 1961. Remastered from the original tapes, the full set of his Brahms Symphonies will now be released on CD and for download & streaming. Set for release on 4 March and available for pre-order now.
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra , Manfred Honeck – Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98 – MacMillan: Larghetto for Orchestra (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 53:57 minutes | 1,69 GB | Genre: Classical
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Reference Recordings proudly presents the Symphony No. 4 of Johannes Brahms, with James MacMillan’s Larghetto for Orchestra, in exceptional performances from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. We are excited that this release coincides with the orchestra’s 2021-2022 season and triumphant return to live concerts! These works were recorded live in beautiful and historic Heinz Hall, now celebrating its 50th Anniversary season.
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 – Johnathan Leshnoff: Double Concerto for Clarinet & Bassoon (Live) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:01:08 minutes | 1,93 GB | Genre: Classical
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One salutary aspect of the tendency of orchestras, especially American and British ones, to issue their live concerts on recordings is that standout performances tend to be picked. The performance here of the Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, was recorded in 2016, but it clearly stuck in some heads and was identified as a worthwhile moment (the Double Concerto by Jonathan Leshnoff was recorded three years later; this live album doesn’t represent a single concert). It is indeed special: the Symphony No. 4 has rarely received such an intense performance. It’s not the speed; conductor Manfred Honeck comes in a minute slower than Mariss Jansons on the first movement of his Oslo Philharmonic recording, but there is still a feeling of urgency, amplified by slight changes to the score that Honeck details in his expansive liner notes (available on the Chandos label’s website for downloaders and streamers) and by a general high-contrast approach to dynamics. Listeners will have to make their own decisions about these, but it’s quite arguable that Honeck does nothing that a conductor of the late 19th or early 20th century might have also considered. The Pittsburgh Symphony is in fine form in the symphony’s thrilling brass passages and in the all-pizzicato strings of the third movement. The accompanying Double Concerto for clarinet and bassoon by Leshnoff is also a pleasure: a neo-Romantic work agreeably written and elegantly performed by soloists Michael Rusinek and Nancy Goeres. The live engineering in the acoustically difficult Tchaikovsky, from Pittsburgh’s Heinz Hall, is very fine.
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck – Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, WAB 109 (Ed. L. Nowak) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:03:10 minutes | 1,96 GB | Genre: Klassiek
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Maestro Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra present Bruckner Symphony No. 9, an iconic work in a new and definitive interpretation in superb audiophile sound. This release was recorded in beautiful Heinz Hall, home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
In this revelatory recording of Bruckner’s monumental work, Maestro Honeck invites us to explore the presence of the divine, to experience the beauty of this world, while also facing the darker and more violent abysses. In his deeply personal and scholarly music notes that accompany the recording, Maestro Honeck gives us great insight into the history and the musical structure of Bruckner’s final composition, and describes how he conducts and interprets this work. With lyrical and majestic moments, Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 is a masterful journey.
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Manfred Honeck – Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 “Choral” (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:02:45 minutes | 2,03 GB | Genre: Classical
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Celebrate Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in a new and definitive interpretation from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra! Recorded in superb audiophile sound, this release is the eleventh in the highly acclaimed Pittsburgh Live! series on the FRESH! imprint from Reference Recordings. This series has received GRAMMY® Nominations in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020. Its recording of Shostakovich’s Symphony No.5 /Barber Adagio for Strings won the 2018 GRAMMY® Awards for Best Orchestral Performance and Best Engineered Classical Album. The album booklet includes Maestro Honeck’s meticulous music notes, in which he gives us great insight into his unique interpretation as well as the history and musical structure of Beethoven’s most famous symphony.
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski – Brahms: Symphony No. 4 & Hungarian Dances (2008)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:01 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © PentaTone Classics
The brotherhood of writers likes to get hold of a slogan in order to effectively and boldly describe a composer and his oeuvre. However, such an abbreviated description is not without danger, if not followed by subtle arguments for the choice of the words. Nevertheless, please permit the undersigned also to mention a catchy phrase in the case of Johannes Brahms, which concentrates the mind on the essential. Therefore, should one wish to label Brahms as a composer, then it would most certainly not bear the inscription of a “symphonic” or “Lied” composer, but – if the word existed – of a “variationalistic” composer. After all, the main purpose of Brahms’ life as a composer was the constant transformation of the musical material at hand, the re-examination of traditional elements and forms. And also during the course of his four contributions to the symphonic genre, which indeed caused him such great problems at first, the variation model was ceded an increasingly important role.
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Manfred Honeck – Beethoven & Stucky: Orchestral Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 54:50 minutes | 1,72 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reference Recordings
Reference Recordings proudly presents the Symphony No. 6 of Ludwig van Beethoven, with Steven Stucky’s Silent Spring, in exceptional performances from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Maestro Honeck honors us again with his meticulous music notes. He gives rare insight into his conducting and interpretation, as well as the history and musical structure of Beethoven’s beloved Pastoral Symphony.Steven Stucky’s Silent Spring was commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in honor of the 50th anniversary of the publication of the book Silent Spring, the seminal work by Pittsburgh native Rachel Carson. It had its world premiere performance in February 2012. The composer generously includes his own album notes about this work, which like the book can be heard as a call to action to love and save nature and the earth before it is too late.
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