Browse: SFS Media (label)

Tilson Thomas's interpretation is free of any mannerism, but it is alive in every bar, full of passion, and marvellously played and recorded. A work which can lead to feelings of having been... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Fifth Symphony proves uncommonly thoughtful, urbane and dignified. Not only is the orchestral response scrupulously prepared and free of meretricious flashiness, the performance displays... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2015 More…

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.... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Gleaming sound makes us eager to follow where this wide-eyed interpretation so assuredly leads. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2009 More…

Tilson Thomas and what sounds like a large body of San Franciscans, both choral and orchestral, manage the dynamic contrasts very well. Andrew Foster-Williams gives a vivid account...Sally Matthews... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2014 More…

Bates (b1977) clearly possesses a keen ear, adventurous mind and sly sense of humour. Each suite of short sound pictures beguiles the listener, the orchestra deployed like an organic synthesiser…this... — Classical Music, August 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…