Browse: SFS Media (label)
This page lists all recordings from the label SFS Media.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mahler: Songs with Orchestra
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano) & Thomas Hampson (baritone), 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. — More…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 3 & Kindertotenlieder
RecommendedMichelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano)
San Francisco Symphony, with Women of the SFS Chorus, the Pacific Boychoir and the San Francisco Girls Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Grammy Awards, 46th Awards (2003), Classical Album of the Year
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Michael Tilson Thomas: From the Diary of Anne Frank & Meditation on Rilke
RecommendedSasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Ryan McKinny (bass-baritone), San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Winner - Best Classical Compendium
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Orchestral Performance
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This is a delicious triptych of Debussy’s mature orchestral works…Tilson Thomas has a long and illustrious pedigree in Debussy, and it shows in the control and care taken over nuances of texture... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Orchestral Performance
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American Mavericks
Jeremy Denk (piano), Paul Jacobs (organ)
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
This is one of the boldest pieces of programming to have come my way in a long time...Tilson Thomas turns in a superb performance, remarkable as much for the delicacy of the quiet moments as... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2013, Editor's Choice
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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 — More…
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Grammy Awards, 45th Awards (2002), Best Orchestral Performance
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Ives: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4, Selected American Hymns
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
The results can be extraordinarily complex, but Thomas – Ives’s pre-eminent orchestral interpreter – navigates with smooth skill…the SFS Chorus give bright, if brief, renditions of significant... — More…
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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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 — More…
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Piano Concerto No. 3 & Mass in C
Emanuel Ax (piano), William Burden (tenor), Shenyang (bass-baritone), Ragnar Bohlin (director), Kelley O'Connor (mezzo-soprano), Joélle Harvey (soprano)
San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 & Piano Concerto No. 4
Emanuel Ax (piano)
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major
Oliver Herbert (cello)
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Erin Wall (soprano), Kendall Gladen (mezzo-soprano), William Burden (tenor) & Nathan Berg (bass-baritone)
San Francisco Symphony & San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas
This is a spacious account, with an expansive and lovely slow movement, and a rapturous conclusion — More…
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Bernstein: West Side Story
Cheyenne Jackson (tenor, baritone), Kevin Vortmann (tenor), Alexandra Silber (soprano), Juliana Hansen (mezzo-soprano), Jessica Vosk (mezzo-soprano), Kelly Markgraf (baritone), Julia Bullock (mezzo-soprano), Louise Marie Cornillez (mezzo-soprano), Cassie Simone (mezzo-soprano)
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Mason Bates: Works for Orchestra
Mason Bates (programmer)
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Mahler: Songs with Orchestra
Thomas Hampson (baritone), Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 'Eroica'
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection'
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano), Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano)
San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas
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Beethoven: Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II & Symphony No. 2
Tamara Mumford (mezzo-soprano), Sally Matthews (soprano), Ragnar Bohlin (director), Barry Banks (tenor), Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-baritone)
San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas
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