Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Seasonal, 8 to 10pm on WXXI-FM 91.5, WXXY 90.3, WXXI-FM/HD 91.5-1, WITH-FM/HD 90.1-2 and online at classical915.org
Enjoy a lively, exciting performance of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra each week from the comfort of your living room. Host Jim Cunningham and acclaimed Music Director Manfred Honeck bring you the symphonic works of Brahms, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Mahler and more with help from world-class soloists. The show is produced by Classical WQED-FM 89.3/Pittsburgh?.
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This season of the Pittsburgh Symphony wraps up on Jan 30th -
Composer Vivian Fung's A Child's Dream of Toys, Suite from The Nutcracker and more -
The new season kicks off with fanfare that Jennifer Higdon composed in 2002. -
The Pittsburgh Symphony broadcasts wrap up for this season on May 11th -
On Apr 27th at 8pm, we'll explore Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3, Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, flutist Lorna McGhee plays the premiere of “Wing of the Dream” by Kaija Saariaho. -
Scriabin referred to The Poem of Ecstasy as his "fourth symphony," although it has few elements of a symphony. Scriabin wrote a poem over 300 lines long to accompany the music, but they are not meant to be performed together. -
French pianist Bertrand Chamayou is one of today’s most strikingly brilliant pianists, recognized for his revelatory performances at once powerfully virtuosic, imaginative and breathtakingly beautiful. -
Although Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 has been attributed to one Johann Baptist Cramer, a pianist, composer and publisher based in London who was friendly with Beethoven and probably knew the value of good marketing, the word ‘Emperor’ carries resonances that were so far from the composer’s ideals that its attachment to arguably his finest concerto is almost laughable. We'll hear it on Jan 26th at 8pm. -
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Wednesdays at 8pm beginning Nov. 17th
