It’s a concert of firsts from Pittsburgh Symphony Radio.  Venezuelan Rafael Payare conducts music from his home country - Margaritena by Inocente Carreno, along with Mahler’s Symphony No. 1.   And Gilmore Artist Award winner Kirill Gerstein plays the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2. 

It’s a concert of firsts from Pittsburgh Symphony Radio.  Venezuelan Rafael Payare conducts music from his home country - Margaritena by Inocente Carreno, along with Mahler’s Symphony No. 1.   And Gilmore Artist Award winner Kirill Gerstein plays the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2. 

It’s a concert of debuts on the next Pittsburgh Symphony Radio broadcast.   Vasily Petrenko conducts the Shostakovich Symphony No. 8.  And Behzod Adburaimov plays the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1. 

It’s a concert of debuts on the next Pittsburgh Symphony Radio broadcast.   Vasily Petrenko conducts the Shostakovich Symphony No. 8.  And Behzod Adburaimov plays the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1. 

It’s a birthday party for Viennese pianist Rudolf Buchbinder on the next Pittsburgh Symphony Radio broadcast.  He’ll play the Haydn Piano Concerto in D, the Mozart Concerto No. 20 and the Beethoven Emperor Concerto – No. 5.  Manfred Honeck conducts. 

It’s a birthday party for Viennese pianist Rudolf Buchbinder on the next Pittsburgh Symphony Radio broadcast.  He’ll play the Haydn Piano Concerto in D, the Mozart Concerto No. 20 and the Beethoven Emperor Concerto – No. 5.  Manfred Honeck conducts. 

Christoph Konig returns to Heinz Hall to conduct Brahms Third Symphony.  Cellist Maximilian Hornung and Pittsburgh Symphony Prinicipal Viola Randolph Kelly perform Don Quixote by Richard Strauss. 

Christoph Konig returns to Heinz Hall to conduct Brahms Third Symphony.  Cellist Maximilian Hornung and Pittsburgh Symphony Prinicipal Viola Randolph Kelly perform Don Quixote by Richard Strauss. 

Spaniard Juanjo Mena returns to Heinz Hall to conduct a French program with the Pittsburgh Symphony.  Debussy’s “Pritemps” and Ravel’s “Noble and Sentimental Waltzes.”  Plus, Principal Flute Lorna McGhee with the Ibert Flute Concerto.  And you’ll hear Stravinsky’s “The Firebird,” written for Paris. 

Music Director Manfred Honeck conducts the first of two Vienna Fest concerts featuring Haydn, Mozart and Schubert.  Till Fellner plays Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3.