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Hearing this performance in SACD multichannel format changes nothing with respect to its considerable interpretive merits, but it’s a big improvement technically. Now, in addition
This performance has two big assets and one huge liability. The assets are Stuart Skelton’s really heroic performance of the tenor part, and Michael Tilson
These two excellent performances have in common the fact that they were both made by two exciting young conductors toward the start of their respective
This concert recording from the last weekend of May, 1996, originally was released as an RCA Victor CD in 1997. Leading a committed orchestra and
It’s a pity, really. Michael Tilson Thomas has the San Francisco Symphony playing with extreme responsiveness, and there are some wonderful moments in this Mahler
Much heralded as the auspicious beginning of a new–and now defunct–recording contract with RCA, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony’s Romeo & Juliet
This is a terrifically exciting performance of Orff’s popular chestnut. Tempos are swift, from the opening “O fortuna” onward. The soloists are uniformly excellent, especially
This SACD is a vocal/orchestral collection by San Francisco composer Gordon Getty: four choral works and an operatic scene. The music has a kind of
New recordings of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto appear with such regularity these days that it’s easy to take them for granted. After all, what can any
MTT recorded a very fine Mahler Seventh for RCA with the London Symphony Orchestra, and this new version, while marginally swifter in a couple of
