Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / Yefim Bronfman / Manfred Honeck

Date & Time

Wed, Sep 4, 2024, 20:00

Venue

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has a distinguished history of promoting new American works. In 1986, for example, it premiered John Adams’s fanfare for orchestra »Short Ride in a Fast Machine«, with which the musicians opened their concert in the Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall under the direction of long-standing chief conductor Manfred Honeck. For Rachmaninov’s mighty »Concerto for Elephants«, whose piano part allegedly has the most notes per second of all the great piano concertos, the Grammy award winning orchestra will be... Read full text

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Musicians

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Yefim Bronfman	Piano
Manfred Honeck	Conductor

Program

Short Ride in a Fast Machine / Fanfare for Orchestra	John Adams
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30	Sergei Rachmaninoff
L’oiseau de feu (The Firebird) / Suite (version from 1945)	Igor Stravinsky
Turandot-Suite / Suite for Orchestra by Manfred Honeck and Tomáš Ille	Giacomo Puccini
»Tybalts Tod« aus dem Ballett Romeo und Julia	Sergei Prokofiev
Morgenstimmung / Peer-Gynt-Suite Nr. 1 op. 46	Edvard Grieg

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