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BEETHOVEN
Keeping Score - The making of a performance... Beethoven's Eroica. The San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony / DVD - released 27/Jun/2005 ] Not all revolutions are political. Some overturn artistic conventions. Beethoven's Eroica challenged accepted notions of music as a kind of decorative background and brought the listener along on a gripping voyage into the unconscious. Beethoven... |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Keeping Score - The making of a performance... Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony. The San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony / DVD - released 27/Jun/2005 ] G :- MTT delves into the notes and symbols that make up Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony, and unlocks the drama, pathos, elation and despair within. |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Keeping Score - Revealing classical music - Mahler: origins and legacy The San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Dec/2011 ] "...overall, Tilson Thomas and his associates bring Mahler's music to life in a way that makes even the novice appreciate its astounding unity within diversity." (BBC Music) |
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JOHN ADAMS / BRITTEN / COPLAND / MENDELSSOHN
San Francisco Symphony at 100 BLU-RAY The San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Jun/2012 ] San Francisco Symphony at 100 documents the glorious festivities of the orchestra's centenary year, celebrated at the orchestra's extravagant 2011-12 season opening night gala concert. |
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JOHN ADAMS / BRITTEN / COPLAND / MENDELSSOHN
San Francisco Symphony at 100 The San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas, with Itzhak Perlman: violin [ San Francisco Symphony DVD / DVD - released 20/Jun/2012 ] San Francisco Symphony at 100 documents the glorious festivities of the orchestra's centenary year, celebrated at the orchestra's extravagant 2011-12 season opening night gala concert. |
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IVES
Holidays Symphony (with Copland - Appalacian Spring) San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ Avie / San Francisco Symphony / Keeping Score / CD - released 20/Mar/2010 ] This album is the companion concert recording for Keeping Score, the San Francisco Symphony's multi-media project on PBS, national public radio, web sites and education. |
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STARVINSKY
The Rite of Spring / The Firebird Suite [excerpts] San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ Avie / San Francisco Symphony / Keeping Score / CD - released 20/Mar/2010 ] This companion concert recording for Keeping Score: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, as seen on PBS, was recorded live in Davies Symphony Hall in September 2004. It includes the complete The Rite of Spring plus three movements from The Firebird Suite... |
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BERLIOZ
Symphonie Fantastique San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ Avie / San Francisco Symphony / Keeping Score / CD - released 20/Mar/2010 ] This companion concert recording for Keeping Score: Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, as seen on PBS, was recorded live in Davies Symphony Hall in December 2007. |
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MAHLER
Symphony No. 1 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ AVIE SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] |
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BEETHOVEN
Symphony No 3 "Eroica" San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ Avie / San Francisco Symphony / Keeping Score / CD - released 20/Mar/2010 ] This companion concert recording for Keeping Score: Beethoven's Eroica, as seen on PBS, was recorded live in Davies Symphony Hall in May 2004. |
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MAHLER
Symphony No. 4 Laura Claycomb (soprano) / San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ AVIE SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] "one to rank alongside the blistering performance of the Sixth" BBC Music Magazine 5 Star |
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SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No 5 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ Avie / San Francisco Symphony / Keeping Score / CD - released 20/Mar/2010 ] This companion concert recording for Keeping Score: Shostakovich Symphony No. 5, as seen on PBS, was recorded live in Davies Symphony Hall in November 2007. |
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MAHLER
Symphony No. 9 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ AVIE SACD / SACD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "I've heard many far more impassioned, expressive versions of this symphony, but also quite a few with less going for them. This isn't my preferred approach to the Ninth, but I can see where Tilson Thomas is coming from." (MusicWeb August 2005) |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Unknown Britten Sandrine Piau (soprano) Michael Collins (clarinet) Rolf Hind (piano) / Northern Sinfonia, Thomas Zehetmair [ NMC / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] Recording of the Month (Gramophone Awards Issue 2009) - "All the performances are superb. Sandrine Piau's stylish and imaginative interpretation of Les illuminations is one of the best soprano versions on disc, in fact." |
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ROB KEELEY
Rob Keeley: Orchestral Music Sarah Desbruslais (flute) Michael Sluman, James Turnbull (oboes) Patrick Flanaghan (cor anglais) / Málaga Philharmonic & Liepāja Symphony Orchestra [ Toccata / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] Rob Keeley - born in south Wales in 1960 but immersed in London musical life since boyhood - embraces a wide range of influences. Stravinsky's angular melodies and Tippett's buoyant rhythms can be heard in the spiky but bucolic Second Symphony. |
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LENNOX BERKELEY
Chamber works for wind, strings & piano Sarah Francis (oboe) Judith Fitton (flute) Michael Dussek (piano) / Tagore String Trio [ Regis Records / CD - released 7/Jul/2012 ] "Sarah Francis forms an idiomatic and communicative partnership with pianist Michael Dussek...a desirable collection, engineered with striking fidelity" (Gramophone) |
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OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: Les Offrandes Oubliées Sarah Leonard (soprano), ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Gielen (conductor) [ Orfeo / CD - released 16/Jul/2022 ] The fifth instalment in Orfeo's Michael Gielen / ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra series. What makes Olivier Messiaen's œuvre so special is largely his ability to coalesce various influences, inspirations and convictions into a wholly individual... |
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PACHELBEL
Complete Organ Works - Vol. I Michael Belotti, James David Christie, Jürgen Essl, Christian Schmitt (organ) [ CPO SACD / 5 Hybrid SACD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] "I have generally admired the way Pachelbel's music is played here. The four organists are excellent interpreters who know how to bring out the qualities of his various works." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb July 2014) |
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MARK GREY
Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio Scott Hendricks (baritone) / The Phoenix Symphony and Chorus / Michael Christie [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] The Phoenix Symphony enjoys a long history of premièring new works that bridge gaps between Western art music and Native cultures. Hailed as 'a master', Mark Grey 'is a composer as well as a sound engineer, and what he is up to has far-reaching... |
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TELEMANN / SAINT-SAENS / DOPPLER / VILLA-LOBOS / J. S. BACH
Sharon Bezaly - Synergy Sharon Bezaly (flute) /Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Urban Svensson, Thomas Dausgaard & Michael Collins, with Michala Petri (recorder) & Bram van Sambeek [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Sep/2022 ] On Synergy, flautist Sharon Bezaly and her musician friends demonstrate that one plus one can be much greater than two. Featuring works that celebrate the coming together of like-minded musicians. |