PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Manfred Honeck, Conductor
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FR-707 SACD   PITTSBURGH LIVE - STRAUSS
Announcing The First Release In A New Series With The Pittsburgh Symphony!   Thrilling live performances from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in brilliant audiophile sound!   This release is planned as the first in a series of multi-channel hybrid SACD recordings on FRESH! From Reference Recordings.   Several additional recordings for the PITTSBURGH LIVE! series are already completed and we expect to release two per year.

FR-710 SACD   PITTSBURGH LIVE - DVORAK / JANACEK
Announcing The Second Release In A New Series With The Pittsburgh Symphony!   Thrilling live performances from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in brilliant audiophile sound!   This release is the second in a series of multi-channel hybrid SACD recorded and mastered by the team at Soundmirror and released on FRESH! From Reference Recordings.   Several additional recordings for the PITTSBURGH LIVE! series are already completed and we expect to release two per year.
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FR-713 SACD   PITTSBURGH LIVE - BRUCKNER NO.4
Announcing The Third Release In A New Series With The Pittsburgh Symphony!   Another thrilling live performance from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in brilliant audiophile sound!   This release is planned as the third in a series of multi-channel hybrid SACD recordings on FRESH! From Reference Recordings.   Several additional recordings for the PITTSBURGH LIVE! series are already completed and we expect to continue releasing two per year.

FR-718 SACD   PITTSBURGH LIVE -
BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY No.5 & SYMPONY No.7
Announcing The Fourth Release In A New Series With The Pittsburgh Symphony!   Thrilling live performances from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in brilliant audiophile sound!   This release is the fourth in a series of multi-channel hybrid SACD recorded and mastered by the team at Soundmirror and released on FRESH! From Reference Recordings.   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 more than 70 Grammy nominations and awards.

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FR-720 SACD   PITTSBURGH LIVE -
TCHAIKOVSKY SYMPHONY NO. 6 IN B MINOR, OP. 74
& DVORÁK RUSALKA FANTASY
Announcing The Fifth Release In A New Series With The Pittsburgh Symphony!   Another thrilling live performance from the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in brilliant audiophile sound!   Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky said of his Symphony No. 6: “But I absolutely consider it to be the best, and in particular, the most sincere of all my creations.   I love it as I have never loved any of my other musical offspring.”

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STRAUSS ELEKTRA & ROSENKAVALIER
Announcing The Sixth Release In A New Series With The Pittsburgh Symphony!   This new recording presents orchestral suites based on two of the most significant operas in history.   Der Rosenkavalier found its place in the concert hall from the beginning, first with two waltz sequences and later with the famous 1944 suite.   But Elektra remained purely on the opera stage until now.   Conductor Manfred Honeck has made his own symphonic adaptation, in collaboration with the Czech composer Tomás Ille.

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SHOSTAKOVICH SYMPHONY NO.5 & BARBER ADAGIO
Announcing The Seventh Release In A New Series With The Pittsburgh Symphony!   This new recording presents orchestral suites based on two of the most significant operas in history.   Der Rosenkavalier found its place in the concert hall from the beginning, first with two waltz sequences and later with the famous 1944 suite.   But Elektra remained purely on the opera stage until now.   Conductor Manfred Honeck has made his own symphonic adaptation, in collaboration with the Czech composer Tomás Ille.

FR-728 SACD   PITTSBURGH LIVE -
BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY No 3 & STRAUSS HORN CONCERTO No 1
Announcing The Eighth Release In A New Series With The Pittsburgh Symphony!   In his fascinating and scholarly music notes, Maestro Honeck gives us insight into the history of both pieces, and describes how he conducts and interprets each.   He reminds us that the “Eroica” was a bold departure from earlier symphonies, a “dance symphony with dramatic inventiveness, full of new elements that had never been heard before.”

FR-733 SACD   PITTSBURGH LIVE - BRUCKNER 9
Announcing The Ninth Release In A New Series With The Pittsburgh Symphony!   Reference Recordings proudly presents this iconic work in a new and definitive interpretation from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in superb audiophile sound.   This hybrid SACD release was recorded in beautiful and historic Heinz Hall, home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

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TCHAIKOVSKY SYMPHONY No 4
& LESHNOFF CONCERTO FOR CLARINET AND BASSOON
Announcing The Tenth Release In A Series With The Pittsburgh Symphony!   Reference Recordings® proudly presents Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.4 in an exquisite interpretation from Manfred Honeck.   It is coupled with a World Premiere recording of leading American composer Jonathan Leshnoff’s Double Concerto for Clarinet and Bassoon, featuring the extraordinary talents of the Pittsburgh Symphony’s own Principal Clarinet Michael Rusinek and Principal Bassoon Nancy Goeres.


KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY
Michael Stern, Conductor
 
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THE DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY


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