Performer: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Can one be artful and musical while playing at maximum volume? In a program of López, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, Rafael Payare and the Pittsburgh Symphony answer a resounding yes.

Honored by the Bruckner Society of America, Manfred Honeck conducts a majestic and architecturally assured account of Bruckner’s Eighth, paired with Samy Moussa’s evocative Adgilis Deda.

Dima Slobodeniouk returns to Pittsburgh for works by Finnish composers, and the Jussen brothers delight with Poulenc.

Manfred Honeck discusses the music of Anton Bruckner, both from the experience of playing viola in the Vienna Philharmonic and as conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony.