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Mahler - Symphony No. 8 & Symphony No. 10 (Adagio)
RecommendedErin Wall, Elza van den Heever, Laura Claycomb (sopranos), Katarina Karnéus, Yvonne Naef (mezzos), Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor), Quinn Kelsey (baritone), James Morris (bass-baritone)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Pacific Boychoir, San Francisco Girls Choir,...
In part II, however, Tilson Thomas manages to create a sense of rapt introspection and untroubled serenity far removed from the more tangible and portentous lyricism Solti tends to provide in... —
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Building a Library, May 2010, Featured
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Grammy Awards, 52nd Awards (2009), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 52nd Awards (2009), Classical Album of the Year
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Bernstein: West Side Story
RecommendedAlexandra Silber (Maria), Cheyenne Jackson (Tony), Jessica Vosk (Anita), Kevin Vortmann (Riff), Kelly Markgraf (Bernardo), David Michael Laffey (Big Deal/Snowboy), Juliana Hansen (Rosalia), Louise Marie Cornillez (Consuelo), Zacharay Ford (Diesel), Cassie Simone (Francisca), Justin Keyes (Action),...
Tilson Thomas's version scores heavily with its casting of the appealingly youthful-sounding Cheyenne Jackson as Tony and Alexandra Silber as Maria...The orchestra swings like the biggest of... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th June 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Winner - Opera
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Adams: Harmonielehre & Short Ride in a Fast Machine
RecommendedSan Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
More than in previous recordings, Michael Tilson Thomas's superbly paced approach conveys the music's sense of vast surrounding spaces, and the momentum of the biggest passages is the more thrilling... —
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Grammy Awards, 55th Awards (2012), Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Nominated - Best Orchestral Performance
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Special offer. Ives: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4, Selected American Hymns
Peter Dugan (piano), San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas, Christian Reif
The results can be extraordinarily complex, but Thomas – Ives’s pre-eminent orchestral interpreter – navigates with smooth skill…the SFS Chorus give bright, if brief, renditions of significant... —
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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Special offer. Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette
Sasha Cooke (mezzo), Nicholas Phan (tenor), Luca Pisaroni (bass-baritone)
San Francisco Symphony & San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas
There is much to admire: buoyant energy, sparkling lightness (in the Queen Mab Scherzo), mostly well-balanced textures and acceptable if not quite native French. Yet after one hearing I felt... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Choral
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Special offer. Michael Tilson Thomas: From the Diary of Anne Frank & Meditation on Rilke
RecommendedSasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Ryan McKinny (bass-baritone), San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Winner - Best Classical Compendium
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Mahler: Songs with Orchestra
Thomas Hampson (baritone), Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
'Um mitternacht' works best, with gleaming voice complemented by superb San Francisco clarinets and trumpets - glorious recorded perspectives, too, as ever from this source. —
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 3 & Kindertotenlieder
Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano), San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Girls Chorus, Pacific Boychoir, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection'
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano), Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano), San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas
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