Browse: SFS Media (label)
This page lists all recordings from the label SFS Media.
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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... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 55th Awards (2012), Best Orchestral Performance
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John Adams: Absolute Jest
RecommendedOrli Shaham (piano) & Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Synergy Vocals, San Francisco Symphony & St. Lawrence String Quartet, Michael Tilson Thomas & John Adams
Here is wit, rough passion, gravity and playfulness...the dialogue between the St Lawrence String Quartet and the San Francisco Orchestra is brilliantly cogent and clear. Absolute Jest is a bravura... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th August 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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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... — More…
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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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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... — More…
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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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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... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Choral
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Berg: Violin Concerto, Seven Early Songs, and Three Pieces for Orchestra
RecommendedGil Shaham (violin), Susanna Phillips (soprano), San Francisco Symphony & Michael Tilson-Thomas
Berg’s shimmering, often Mahlerian soundscapes are lovingly rendered by Tilson Thomas. Shaham brings tonal beauty and power to the sublime Concerto, while Phillips’s voice is radiant in the Seven... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Classical Compendium
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Copland & Ives
RecommendedSan Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Building a Library, March 2014, Highly Recommended
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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... — More…
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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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