1. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / Honeck, Pittsburgh Symphony
  2. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / Honeck, Pittsburgh Symphony

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / Honeck, Pittsburgh Symphony

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A 2021 GRAMMY Nominee for Best Orchestral Performance and for Best Engineered Album!

Celebrate Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in a new and definitive interpretation from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra! Recorded in superb audiophile sound, this release is the eleventh in the highly acclaimed Pittsburgh Live! series on the FRESH! imprint from Reference Recordings. This series has received GRAMMY® Nominations in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020. Its 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. The album booklet includes Maestro Honeck's meticulous music notes, in which he gives us great insight into his unique interpretation as well as the history and musical structure of Beethoven’s most famous symphony.

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REVIEW:

Manfred Honeck is one of today’s leading Beethoven conductors. As music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, he has created notably exciting recordings of the Third, Fifth and Seventh Symphonies. Now he and the orchestra, founded 125 years ago this month, are releasing their interpretation of the mighty Ninth.

What makes Honeck’s approach so stimulating in this most standard of repertoire is the sense that he has rethought each bar of the music.

– New York Times



Product Description:


  • Catalog Number: FR-741SACD


  • UPC: 030911274122


  • Label: Reference Recordings


  • Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven


  • Conductor: Manfred Honeck


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Pittsburgh Mendelssohn Choir, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra


  • Performer: Christina Landshamer, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Shenyang, Werner Güra