Michael Tilson Thomas Mahler cycle
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The San Francisco Symphony are on top form - oboist William Bennett deserves special praise for his lovely solos in the fourth movement - though in high-lying passages the violins often sound... —
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Grammy Awards, 49th Awards (2006), Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 49th Awards (2006), Classical Album of the Year
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Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic'
RecommendedSan Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas
One of the most awe-inspiringly controlled interpretations this work can ever have received….This has to be among the finest Mahler recordings ever made —
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Grammy Awards, 45th Awards (2002), Best Orchestral Performance
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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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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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Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Laura Claycomb (soprano)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas
one to rank alongside the blistering performance of the Sixth —
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Mahler: Das klagende Lied
Marina Shaguch (soprano), Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Moser (tenor) and Sergei Leiferkus (baritone)
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
What a glorious prospect Mahler's first major work opens up for us – and how beautifully it is realised here. The original three-part version of this ambitious folkloric cantata is like a musical... —
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Tilson Thomas immediately establishes a profoundly rapt atmosphere, and the orchestra take what can best be described as a bel canto approach, singing their lines with warmth and poised intensity.... —
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Thomas Hampson (baritone) & Stuart Skelton (tenor)
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
