★★★★★
New Music The latest recording from Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony - superb live performances of the path-breaking "Harmonielehre" and the aptly titled "Short Ride in a Fast Machine" - drops this week, just in time for the premiere of Adams' "Absolute Jest" as part of the American Mavericks Festival. It provides all the encouragement anyone might want...
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2012-03-12
★★★★★
Classical Ives/Brant & Copland Beethoven With the completion of their superb decadelong Mahler cycle, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony are now clearly casting about for some notion of what to do next on the recording front. These two new releases, which arrive this week, could hardly offer a more vividly contrasting pair of answers to that question - or point more clearly in the correct direction...
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2011-02-07
★★★★★
Classical After a project as successful as the San Francisco Symphony's Mahler recording cycle, nothing could have been more apt than to go out with a triumphant bow. Unfortunately, it didn't happen. This final installment in the 10-year journey by Michael Tilson Thomas and the orchestra turns out to be the one clinker in the bunch, a mannered and often misconceived disc that sits awkwardly alongside its fellows...
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2010-10-18
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