Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra - Symphony 6 / Silent Spring - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

Reference Recordings proudly presents Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 in a significant new interpretation from conductor Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. It is coupled with Erwin S chulhoff's Five Pieces for String Quartet, newly arranged for large orchestra by Manfred Honeck and Tomáš Ille. This album was recorded in beautiful and historic Heinz Hall, home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in superb audiophile sound. Maestro Honeck honors us again with his meticulous music notes, in which he gives us great insight into his interpretation as well as the history and musical structure of Tchaikovsky's great Symphony No. 5. This is the fourteenth in the highly acclaimed Pittsburgh Live! Series of multi-channel hybrid SACD releases on the FRESH! #imprint from Reference Recordings. This series has received numerous GRAMMY® Nominations, and it's recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No.5 /Barber Adagio for Strings won the 2018 GRAMMY® Awards for Best Orchestral Performance and Best Engineered Classical Album

Anton Bruckner wrote his Symphony No. 6 over a period of two years, completing it in September 1881. And for once with this composer, the word 'completing' can be used without qualification known for his habit of reworking and revising his works, Bruckner for once seems to have been satisfied with the result of his efforts. That doesn't mean that the Sixth has enjoyed a smoother passage to the concert stage than other Bruckner symphonies, however. The only performance in Bruckner's lifetime was a partial one, of the two middle movements, and when Gustav Mahler conducted the first 'full' performance in 1899, he made a number of substantial cuts and other amendments. In fact, the true premiere of the Sixth as Bruckner wrote it had to wait until 1935, almost 40 years after the composer's death. And the work is still something of a Cinderella in the Bruckner catalogue, with far fewer outings in concert halls or on disc than for instance the Fourth or the Seventh. Bruckner called the Sixth his 'boldest' symphony - with a duration of 'only' some 55 minutes it is at any rate one of the shorter, but possibly the composer was thinking of the remarkably expansive Adagio or the ambiguous Scherzo, or of the way the so-called 'Bruckner rhythm' (different combinations of a duplet and a triplet) pervades the work. The present is the first in a Bruckner 'mini-series' from Thomas Dausgaard and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, appearing together on disc for the first time.

Nielsen / Serov / Odense Symphony Orchestra - Symphony 6 [COMPACT DISCS] date 12/12/1995