(Source: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) Posted by Joyce DeFrancesco Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Music Director Manfred Honeck welcomes beloved pianist Emanuel Ax back to the Heinz Hall stage in a BNY Mellon Grand Classics program featuring Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 and choral favorites from Orff, Bernstein, Verdi and Boito. Brahms' Concerto No. 2 is an epic 50-minute work, written two decades after Brahms' first concerto and at the height of his fame. This concerto has the spaciousness of a symphony, the drama of an opera and the intimacy of a lullaby, and touches on nearly every emotion - and is some of the most difficult music ever written for a pianist! The choral works will feature...
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