Michael Tilson Thomas

San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy-Overture (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:10:52 minutes | 2,54 GB | Genre: Classical
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Discover powerful and moving music by Tchaikovsky in this all-new release from Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. With the heroic Symphony No. 5 and the passionateRomeo and Juliet, Fantasy-Overture—featuring one of the best-known love themes ever written—this thrilling, live recording is the perfect addition to any music collection.

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San Francisco Symphony & Michael Tilson Thomas – Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:36:50 minutes | 1,72 GB | Genre: Classical
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Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony bring unsurpassed storytelling and musicality to their latest recording on the Grammy Award-winning SFS Media label: Berlioz’s dramatic symphony Roméo et Juliette. With a narrative that Berlioz deemed “too beautiful, too musical” to not be performed, this impassioned orchestral scoring of love and despair is further enriched by the vocals of Sasha Cooke, Nicholas Phan, Luca Pisaroni, and the SFS Chorus.

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San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas – Three Pieces for Orchestra, Opus 6 (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 21:54 minutes | 842 MB | Genre: Classical
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Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony present their first-ever digital-only release with Berg’s fantastical Three Pieces for Orchestra. This release launches the Symphony’s new digital-only series by its eight-time Grammy Award winning in-house record label, SFS Media. Presented in studio master-quality for download and streaming, experience one of the finest examples of Berg’s brilliant artistry in this transfixing work of tragic premonition and drama.

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San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas – Berg: Violin Concerto, Seven Early Songs & Three Pieces for Orchestra (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:07:07 minutes | 2,51 GB | Genre: Classical
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Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony illuminate the gorgeously evocative world of Alban Berg in the newest release from the Grammy Award-winning SFS Media label. Hear the heartbreaking pathos of Berg’s Violin Concerto brought to life by Gil Shaham; the soaring, multicolored Seven Early Songs performed by acclaimed soprano Susanna Phillips; and the spellbinding Three Pieces for Orchestra, in which the composer solidified his reputation as a master of spacious expression. This is album is available February 26, 2021 as a studio master-quality SACD, as digital download, and via streaming.

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San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas – American Mavericks (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:24 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Classical
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The latest album from Michael Tilson Thomas and the GRAMMY Award-winning San Francisco Symphony features breathtaking live recordings from the SFS’ widely acclaimed American Mavericks festival. American Mavericks includes scintillating performances of four works by three influential twentieth century masters: Henry Cowell’s Synchrony and his Piano Concerto, Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Organ with Percussion Orchestra and Edgard Varese’s Ameriques and the orchestral siren that has influenced generations of composers.

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Michael Tilson Thomas & San Francisco Symphony – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique” (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 48:52 minutes | 1,83 GB | Genre: Classical
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Recorded at a public concert – as is the case for almost all the albums by the San Francisco Orchestra – this version of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth is Michael Tilson’s contribution to the substantial discography of this phenomenal work. Recall that this sombre symphony was first performed in Saint Petersburg in October 1893, conducted by the director himself, with a decent reception, although the audience was most likely left “wanting more”, as the final notes of the staggering final movement faded into a very un-heroic pianissimo. Recall also that only nine days later, Tchaikovsky left behind this vale of years – there are conflicting theories regarding his death, whether it was a result of cholera, suicide, or something else entirely – and the work was played again a few days later at a memorial service, with a few corrections that the composer had made after the first performance; and henceforth it would be this version, that the writer would never hear during his lifetime, which would be played at concerts.

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San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas – Masterpieces in Miniature (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:18:03 minutes | 2,90 GB | Genre: Classical
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In honor of their twentieth season together, Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) and the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) release Masterpieces in Miniature, a collection of short orchestral works, on their in-house label SFS Media. Masterpieces in Miniature includes Henry Litolff’s Scherzo from Concerto symphonique No. 4 featuring pianist Yuja Wang, Gustav Mahler’sBlumine, Charles Ives / Henry Brant’s “The Alcotts” from A Concord Symphony, Gabriel Fauré’sPavane, Claude Debussy’s La Plus que lente, Franz Schubert’s Entracte No. 3 from Rosamunde, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise, Antonín Dvořák’s Legend for Orchestra, Jean Sibelius’s Valse triste, Frederick Delius’s On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Edvard Grieg’s The Last Spring, Léo Delibes’s Cortège de Bacchus from Sylvia, all recorded live in performance at Davies Symphony Hall. With this collection MTT shares some of his most treasured musical memories.

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San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas – West Side Story (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:22:40 minutes | 1,63 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © SFS Media

Michael Tilson Thomas and the Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Symphony present a new live recording of the first-ever concert performances of Leonard Bernstein’s complete score for the beloved musical West Side Story. The recording boasts a talented cast of Broadway actors led by Alexandra Silber (Maria) and Cheyenne Jackson (Tony) alongside members of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus. This Collector’s Edition 2-Disc Set includes a 100-page booklet featuring a new interview with MTT, notes from Rita Moreno and Jamie Bernstein, as well as a West Side Story historical timeline, archival photographs, complete lyrics, and rehearsal and performance photos. Presented in a High Definition Premium Audio Hybrid SACD* Set, this must-have album is the latest treasure from the Orchestra’s very own SFS Media label.

The performances were recorded live at Davies Symphony Hall in late June and early July 2013 after Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony became the first orchestra to receive permission from all four West Side Story rights-holders to perform and record the musical score in its entirety in a concert setting. Of the new recording, Michael Tilson Thomas said, “This is a new and rare opportunity to hear Bernstein’s complete score sung by a sensational young cast and a knock-your-socks-off orchestra. The San Francisco Symphony totally understands and feels this music. We show the Broadway roots of the piece and how its universal qualities translate into the way we think about it today.”

Recorded live in PCM 96 kHz/24-bit audio June 27 – July 2, 2013 at Davies Symphony Hall — a venue of the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center, City and County of San Francisco.
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San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas – Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6 (1929 revision) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 21:54 minutes | 843 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © SFS Media

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony present their first-ever digital-only release with Berg’s fantastical Three Pieces for Orchestra. This release launches the Symphony’s new digital-only series by its eight-time Grammy Award winning in-house record label, SFS Media. Presented in studio master-quality for download and streaming, experience one of the finest examples of Berg’s brilliant artistry in this transfixing work of tragic premonition and drama.
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San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas – Beethoven: Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II, Symphony No. 2 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:23 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © SFS Media

This powerful new recording from Michael Tilson Thomas and the Grammy award-winning San Francisco Symphony and Chorus features two works from early in Beethoven’s career. The rarely performed and recorded Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra is a glorious and profoundly moving tribute written by the 19-year-old Beethoven and clearly foreshadows greatness to come. In his playful Second Symphony, Beethoven shows us what a true master he had become.
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