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Manfred Honeck

Classical Album Review: Manfred Honeck Conducts Brahms and MacMillan

Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony have ways of digging into the music and providing new perspectives on it such that their recordings are, by and large, can’t-miss events.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Manfred Honeck, Pittsburgh Symphony, Reference Recordings

Classical CD Review: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra plays Beethoven’s Ninth

Manfred Honeck’s one of the finest and most exciting Beethoven conductors around, but his interpretive decisions result in an account of the Ninth’s climactic sequence that comes over as episodic and mannered.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Manfred Honeck, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Reference Records

Classical CD Reviews: François-Xavier Roth conducts Mussorgsky and Ravel, Manfred Honeck conducts Tchaikovsky and Leshnoff, and Mikolajus Čiurlionis Orchestral Works

François-Xavier Roth and his period ensemble Les Siècles serve up freshness of playing and conviction of interpretation; Manfred Honeck is a conductor who can draw compelling, electrifying accounts of the standard canon as if on cue; the verdict’s mixed on the music of Lithuanian-born composer Mikalojus Čiurlionis.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Francois-Xavier Roth, Harmonia Mundi, Jonathan Leshnoff, Les Siècles, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck, Mikalojus Čiurlionis, Mondestas Pitrenas, Ondine, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Reference Recordings

Classical CD Reviews: JoAnn Falletta conducts Schreker, Manfred Honeck conducts Beethoven & Strauss, and Baiba Skride’s “American Concertos”

JoAnn Falletta’s recording of Schreker’s orchestral works is fantastic; Manfred Honeck and his Pittsburgh Symphony make Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony shocking again, and Baiba Skride proves a strong advocate for Miklós Rózsa’s Violin Concerto.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: American Concertos, Baiba Skride, Beethoven & Strauss, JoAnn Falletta, Manfred Honeck, Naxos, Orfeo, Reference Recordings, Schreker

Classical Album Review: Manfred Honeck conducts Beethoven’s Symphonies nos. 5 and 7

This is truly exciting, world-beating Beethoven, played with gusto and a kind of musical intelligence that you simply can’t take for granted.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Beethoven, Manfred Honeck, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Reference Recordings

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