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Michael Tilson Thomas

Classical Album Review: Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts Alban Berg

The San Francisco Symphony is a model of complexity: tonally warm but texturally clear; rhythmically on edge but never abrasive in character; beautifully blended throughout.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Gil Shaham, Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, SFS Media

Classical CD Reviews: Michael Tilson Thomas’ “From the Diary of Anne Frank,” Nielsen Symphonies nos. 1 & 2, and Arabella Steinbacher’s “Four Seasons”

This San Francisco Symphony release proves to be a fitting send-off for music director Michael Tilson Thomas; there’s much to admire in the Seattle Symphony’s playing of Carl Nielsen’s first two symphonies; fiery energy from both violinist Arabella Steinbacher and the excellent Münchener Kammerorchester make their new disk a gem.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Arabella Steinbacher, Carl Nielsen, Michael Tilson Thomas, Münchener Kammerorchester, Pentatone, Seattle Symphony, SFS Media, Thomas Dausgaard

Classical CD Reviews: Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Ives, Conrad Tao’s “American Rage,” and Gianandrea Noseda conducts Shostakovich

Michael Tilson Thomas delivers a towering Ives Fourth; pianist Conrad Tao’s American Rage is hard-edged and defiant, but also poignant and stirring; Gianandrea Noseda’s Shostakovich Fourth is ferocious.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Conrad Tao, Gianandrea Noseda, LSO Live, Michael Tilson Thomas, SFS Media, Warner Classics

Classical Music Review: San Francisco Symphony at Symphony Hall

While the orchestra’s program was almost defiantly canonical, it was played with such lightness and energy that you could forgive its disappointing safeness.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony, The Celebrity Series of Boston

Classical Music CD Reviews: H&H’s Haydn & Mozart, Vaughan Williams’ Sea Symphony, and Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette

Handel & Haydn Society’s Haydn and Mozart is about as good as it gets; Martyn Brabbins’ recording of A Sea Symphony is one of the year’s best releases; and for elegance and technical command, you can’t go wrong with Tilson Thomas and his San Francisco Symphony.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: BBC Symphony, Berlioz Roméo et Juliette, Coro, Handel & Haydn, Handel & Haydn Society, Hyperion, Martyn Brabbins, Michael Tilson Thomas, SFS Media, Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony

Classical CD Reviews: Tesla Quartet plays Haydn, Ravel, and Stravinsky, Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Bernstein, Aspects of America

Aspects of America, from the Oregon Symphony and its music director Carlos Kalmar, is at once superbly played, astutely programmed, and aesthetically necessary.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Aspects of America, Carlos Kalman, Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, Orchid Classics, Oregon Symphony, Pentatone Records, SFS Media, Tesla Quartet

Classical CD Reviews: Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Schumann and “The Gershwin Moment”

The San Francisco Symphony delivers performances of chamber-like sensitivity and remarkable transparency.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Music, Review Tagged: Kirill Gerstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, Myrios Classics, SFS Media, The Gershwin Moment

Classical CD Review: Heras-Casado conducts Mendelssohn and Michael Tilson Thomas’s Berg

Michael Tilson Thomas proves he’s got Alban Berg’s style in his blood; Pablo Heras-Casado’s Mendelssohn symphony cycle continues to be stylish.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Alban Berg, Harmonia Mundi, Isabelle Faust, Michael Tilson Thomas, Pablo Heras-Casado, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Classical Album Reviews: Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 3 and Mass in C (SFS Media), Music for Harp (Innova)

Beethoven’s Mass in C is the highlight. Would that the San Francisco Symphony’s performance of the Third Concerto had more electricity.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Review Tagged: Emmanuel Ax, Innova, Michael Tilson Thomas, Music for Harp by Bay-Area Composers, San Francisco Symphony, SFS Media

Music Commentary: Notable Classical Performances of 2014

It’s fun to recall what’s been played locally since January and be reminded just how rich the greater Boston area’s classical music scene really is.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Music Tagged: A Fine Centennial, Andris Nelsons, BMOP, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Claudio Abbado, Die tote Stadt, Drift and Providence, Gil-Rose, Lorin Maazel, Michael Tilson Thomas, Monadnock Music, New-England-Philharmonic, Odyssey Opera, Piano Concerto, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Salome, Samuel Carl Adams, San Francisco Symphony, Sebastian Knauer, Shall we Dance?, Simone Dinnerstein, Sir Christopher Hogwood, Tessa Lark, The Discovery Ensemble, The Love Potion, Witold Lutoslawski

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