Pittsburgh Scores with Penderecki

The Pittsburgh Symphony and its music director Lorin Maazelbrought a meaty program to Orchestra Hall Tuesday night.

Brahms First Symphony, occupying the second half of the program,was hardly a novelty. But it was deftly paired with KrzysztofPenderecki's Adagio (Symphony No. 4 for Large Orchestra, 1989). Thecraggy brilliance of Penderecki and the broad, heavy sweep of Brahmsshowed off the orchestra's impressive range.

The Penderecki-Pittsburgh match seems to be a happy one. Theorchestra has played the Adagio earlier this season on tour, and nextweek in Pittsburgh they give the world premiere of the revisededition of the composer's Fifth Symphony.

They were …