GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (Complete opera recorded in 2012) San Francisco Opera / Renée Fleming, Michael Fabiano, Elizabeth DeShong / Riccardo Frizza (conductor) [ EuroArts San Francisco Opera DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] This is the first EuroArts release in cooperation with the San Francisco Opera, internationally recognized as one of the top opera companies in the world Renée Fleming as "America's most-loved and most-lauded opera singer"(The Times, London)... |
JOHN ADAMS
Absolute Jest / Grand Pianola Music Orli Shaham, Marc-Andre Hamelin (pianos) / San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas & John Adams [ SFS Media / CD - released 7/Aug/2015 ] Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony join forces with America's most-performed living composer, John Adams, in a colossal album featuring Adams's Absolute Jest and Grand Pianola Music. |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No 5 / Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas [ SFS Media / CD - released 10/Jul/2015 ] Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony unleash the passion and triumph of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 and Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy-Overture, in a live, 192/24 bit recording released as a Hybrid SACD. Passion, love and triumph, as... |
BERLIOZ
Keeping Score - Revealing Classical Music - Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique (includes concert performance) The San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony DVD / DVD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] Classical music expert Michael Tilson Thomas headlines this documentary examination of composer Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. As an added bonus, the program features a full concert performance of the work by The San Francisco Symphony. ~... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Keeping Score - Revealing Classical Music - Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique (includes concert performance) BLU-RAY The San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony Bluray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2015 ] Following the success of the enlightening first series of Keeping Score, MTT and SFS return with three further programmes that combine one-hour documentaries with live concert performances. The new programmes explore the music and stories behind the... |
CHARLES IVES
Keeping Score - Revealing Classical Music - Ives's Holiday Symphony (includes concert performance) The San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony / DVD - released 15/Oct/2010 ] Coming of age at the dawn of the twentieth century, Charles Ives saw the halcyon days of his youth fading fast. Not willing to let them go, he invented a striking new musical language to enshrine the feelings and ideals of a simpler time. |
CHARLES IVES
Keeping Score - Revealing Classical Music - Ives's Holiday Symphony (includes concert performance) BLU-RAY The San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2015 ] Coming of age at the dawn of the twentieth century, Charles Ives saw the halcyon days of his youth fading fast. Not willing to let them go, he invented a striking new musical language to enshrine the feelings and ideals of a simpler time. |
MAHLER
Keeping Score - Revealing classical music - Mahler: origins and legacy BLU-RAY The San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Dec/2015 ] "Tilson Thomas presents Mahler as embracing both [Jewish and Christian roots] as part of a universal musical and moral outlook...overall, Tilson Thomas and his associates bring Mahler's music to life in a way that makes even the novice appreciate its... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Keeping Score - Revealing Classical Music - Shostakovich's Symphony No 5 (includes concert performance) The San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony DVD / DVD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] Classical music historian Michael Tilson Thomas hosts this unusual glimpse into the life and work of seminal Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, which rests on an unusual historical footnote. As an added bonus, the program includes a full-length... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Keeping Score - Revealing Classical Music - Shostakovich's Symphony No 5 (includes concert performance) BLU-RAY The San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony Bly-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2015 ] Following the success of the enlightening first series of Keeping Score, MTT and SFS return with three further programmes that combine one-hour documentaries with live concert performances. The new programmes explore the music and stories behind the... |
STRAVINSKY
Keeping Score - Revolutions in Music - Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (includes concert performance) The San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas [ San Francisco Symphony / DVD - released 24/Mar/2007 ] G :- In this DVD, Michael Tilson Thomas and the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony take you from the salons of St. Petersburg to the villages where Stravinsky found inspiration in the earthly power of Russian folk music and dance. |
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... |
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. |
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) |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 1 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ AVIE SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] |