This broadcast series, hosted by Jim Cunningham, presents concerts by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra recorded at Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts. Manfred Honeck has served as music director since the 2008-2009 season. The PSO has been heard on the air since radio began in Pittsburgh with early broadcasts on Pittsburgh's KDKA in the 1920s. Its first network broadcasts appeared on NBC in 1936.
Manfred Honeck, conductor
Itzhak Perlman, violin
John Williams: March from Superman
Bedrich Smetana: Dance of the Comedians from The Bartered Bride
Jacques Offenbach: Intermezzo and Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffman
Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C minor
Giacomo Puccini: Intermezzo from Suor Angelica
Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor
Vadim Gluzman, violin
Maria Huld Markan Sigfusdottir: Oceans
Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2
Jean Sibelius: The Oceanides
Claude Debussy: La Mer
Manfred Honeck, conductor
Maria Duenas, violin
Camille Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No. 3
Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, From the New World