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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: Russia’s Silver Age, “Amici e Rivali,” and Jonathan Leshnoff’s Symphony no. 3

Daniil Trifonov’s Silver Age pays bracing tribute to fin-de-siecle and post-Revolutionary Russian music; Jonathan Leshnoff’s Third Symphony is smartly-written and affecting. What happens when tenors Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres team up for an album of duets and ensembles from various Rossini operas? Fireworks.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Amici e Rivali, Daniil Trifonov, Deutsche Grammophon, Erato, I Virtuosi Italiani, Jonathan Leshnoff, Reference Records

Music Preview: Interview with Composer Adam Schoenberg

Adam Schoenberg is also one of the most widely-performed living composers of orchestral music; in fact, he’s among the top-ten in that category.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Interview, Music Tagged: Adam Schoenberg, American Symphony, Finding Rothko, Picture Studies, Reference Records

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