Written for Irish Shakespeare star Harriet Smithson, on this week’s Pittsburgh Symphony Radio broadcast, you’ll hear Berlioz’s Symphony fantastique.  Plus, Osmo Vanska conducts Bernstein’s Overture to Candide, and Alisa Weilerstein plays Joan Tower’s “A New Day” for Cello and Orchestra.  

Written for Irish Shakespeare star Harriet Smithson, on this week’s Pittsburgh Symphony Radio broadcast, you’ll hear Berlioz’s Symphony fantastique.  Plus, Osmo Vanska conducts Bernstein’s Overture to Candide, and Alisa Weilerstein plays Joan Tower’s “A New Day” for Cello and Orchestra.  

Sir Mark Elder returns to Heinz Hall to conduct Wagner’s Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin, Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration and Elgar’s “In the South.”  Plus, Paul Lewis makes his debut with the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12. 

Sir Mark Elder returns to Heinz Hall to conduct Wagner’s Prelude to Act 1 of Lohengrin, Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration and Elgar’s “In the South.”  Plus, Paul Lewis makes his debut with the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12. 

Alina Ibragimova makes her Heinz Hall debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1.  Peter Oundjian conducts the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Vaughan Williams, and Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3.

Alina Ibragimova makes her Heinz Hall debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1.  Peter Oundjian conducts the Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Vaughan Williams, and Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3.

John Storgaards makes his Heinz Hall debut to conduct “The Planets” by Gustav Holst.   Holding down the Principal chair for three decades as a force of nature, Principal Horn William Caballero plays the Horn Concerto No. 4 by Mozart.