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2023 Broadcast Season

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

2023 Radio Broadcast Season
 

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Pittsburgh Symphony Radio - 2023-2024 Season - Program 8 - Part 1 - Nov 28, 2023

A rarely played Vivaldi concerto this week – the Concerto for Violin and Cello in B Flat, featuring PSO Principal cellist Anne-Martindale Williams, and former PSO Concertmaster Noah Bendix-Balgley.  Also, Noah plays his own Fidl-Fantasy, and Music Director Manfred Honeck conducts Strauss Waltzes and Polkas.


Pittsburgh Symphony Radio - 2023-2024 Season - Program 8 - Part 2 - Nov 28, 2023

A rarely played Vivaldi concerto this week – the Concerto for Violin and Cello in B Flat, featuring PSO Principal cellist Anne-Martindale Williams, and former PSO Concertmaster Noah Bendix-Balgley.  Also, Noah plays his own Fidl-Fantasy, and Music Director Manfred Honeck conducts Strauss Waltzes and Polkas.


Pittsburgh Symphony Radio - 2023-2024 Season - Program 7 - Part 1 - Nov 21, 2023

Lorin Maazel conducts the Lenore Overture No. 2 and the Symphony No. 6.  Plus, Old Russian Circus Music by Rodion Shchedrin and Schumann’s Manfred Overture.


Pittsburgh Symphony Radio - 2023-2024 Season - Program 7 - Part 2 - Nov 21, 2023

Lorin Maazel conducts the Lenore Overture No. 2 and the Symphony No. 6.  Plus, Old Russian Circus Music by Rodion Shchedrin and Schumann’s Manfred Overture.


Pittsburgh Symphony Radio - 2023-2024 Season - Program 6 - Part 1 - Nov 13, 2023

Piano superstar Emanuel Ax plays the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 on this week’s Pittsburgh Symphony Radio Broadcast.  Music Director Manfred Honeck conducts the Symphony No. 4 by Franz Schmidt and Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks by Richard Strauss. 


Pittsburgh Symphony Radio - 2023-2024 Season - Program 6 - Part 2 - Nov 13, 2023

Piano superstar Emanuel Ax plays the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 on this week’s Pittsburgh Symphony Radio Broadcast.  Music Director Manfred Honeck conducts the Symphony No. 4 by Franz Schmidt and Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks by Richard Strauss. 


Pittsburgh Symphony Radio - 2023-2023 Season - Program 5 - Part 1 - Nov 7, 2023

Gil Shaham returns to Heinz Hall to play the Beethoven Violin Concerto.  Dima Slobodeniouk makes his Heinz Hall debut to conduct Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5.


Pittsburgh Symphony Radio - 2023-2024 Season - Program 5 - Part 2 - Nov 7, 2023

Gil Shaham returns to Heinz Hall to play the Beethoven Violin Concerto.  Dima Slobodeniouk makes his Heinz Hall debut to conduct Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5.


The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra presents: Lysenko (arr. Johnson) "Prayer for Ukraine"

"The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine. Music binds us together and we offer this "Prayer for Ukraine" as a symbol of our love and friendship. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra musicians Marta Krechkovsky, Irene Cheng, Lorien Benet Hart and Yeokyung Kim (violins), Gretchen Van Hoesen (harp), Lorna McGhee (flute), Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida (oboe), season musician Nora Prener (oboe), guest musician Si Yu (viola), and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra  musicians Tatjana Mead Chamis (viola), John Moore (bass) and Will Chow (cello)."

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Pittsburgh Symphony Interviews

María Dueñas and Manfred Honeck

Pianist Jan Lisiecki

Actress & Singer Tamara Tunie, Composer Kathryn Bostic

Pianist Seong-Jin Cho

Conductor Vasily Petrenko

Cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan

Violinist Baiba Skride

Composer Jonathan Leshnoff

Pianist Till Fellner

 

 

Pianist Beatrice Rana

Conductor Leonard Slatkin & Pianist Garrick Ohlsson

Conductor Emmanuel Krivine

Pianist Bertrand Chamayou

Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado

Pianist Behzod Abduraimov

Cellist Maximilian Hornung

Pianist Kirill Gerstein

Conductor Juanjo Mena

Violinist Ray Chen

Conductor Christoph König

Jim Cunningham and Gianandrea Noseda discuss Rachmaninoff's Third Concerto, Beethoven's Second Symphony and the Rossini William Tell Overture for the January 29 and 31 concerts with the Pittsburgh Symphony 
Recorded: 01/28/2016

Jim Cunningham speaks with Guest Conductor Christoph Konig about Beethoven's Sixth Symphony and Philip Glass' Second Violin Concerto
Recorded: 01/15/2016

Violinist Tim Fain talks with Jim Cunningham about Philip Glass Concerto No 2
Recorded: 01/15/2016

Conductor Leonard Slatkin discusses the October 30 & November 1, 2015 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concerts with WQED-FM's Jim Cunningham.
Recorded: 11/12/2015

Pianist Conrad Tao discusses the October 30 & November 1, 2015 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concerts with WQED-FM's Jim Cunningham.
Recorded: 11/12/2015

Gustavo Gimeno talks with Jim Cunningham about his debut concert with the Pittsburgh Symphony
Recorded: 10/16/2015

Guitarist Pablo Villegas discusses his visit to Heinz Hall to play the Rodrigo Fantasy for a Gentelman
Recorded: 10/16/2015