San Francisco Symphony
Langue disponible : anglaisThe San Francisco Symphony is among the country's leading orchestras, with a reputation for adventurous and innovative programming that highlights American composers, focusing on targeting new audiences for orchestral music. Under the direction of long-time music director Michael Tilson Thomas, the San Francisco Symphony developed a world-class reputation for its performances and recordings. In 2021, the orchestra, under Tilson Thomas, was heard on an SFS Media recording of orchestral music by Alban Berg. The San Francisco Musical Association, established in 1908, founded the San Francisco Symphony, which gave its first concert in 1911. Its early conductors included Henry Hadley and Alfred Hertz. After the orchestra had to cancel its 1934 season for financial reasons, the city ratified an amendment to its charter in 1935, establishing municipal funding for the orchestra. That year, Pierre Monteux was named music director, and under his leadership, the orchestra grew substantially in stature and reputation, making its first national tour and over 40 recordings for RCA. Some of the world's leading conductors have served the orchestra, including Seiji Ozawa, Edo de Waart, and Herbert Blomstedt. In 1980, during de Waart's tenure, the orchestra moved from the War Memorial Opera House, where it had performed since 1932, into the Louise M. Davis Symphony Hall. That same year, it expanded its season to 52 weeks and inaugurated its New and Unusual Music Series, planned by composer John Adams, the orchestra's composer-in-residence, from 1979 until 1985. In 1995, Michael Tilson Thomas became the orchestra's music director, bringing it to a new level of prominence through its local performances, national and international tours, and many recordings and broadcasts. The orchestra offers more than 220 concerts and other presentations annually, reaching audiences of nearly 600,000 locally and through its tours. The orchestra significantly increased its recording schedule under Tilson Thomas' leadership and founded its own label in 2001, SFS Media. Since that time, it has recorded all of Mahler's symphonic works, including works voice and chorus. The orchestra's discography is broadly diverse but has focused on the music of the Romantic and late-Romantic eras, Russian music, and 20th and 21st century American music. The orchestra is committed to an ambitious program of education. In 2006, Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony launched the Keeping Score PBS television series and multimedia project, a national program that aired for three seasons. The orchestra offers free community concerts in the Bay Area, plus professional coaching for student and amateur musicians, and its music education program, Adventures in Music, reaches all first- through fifth-grade students in the San Francisco Unified School District. Highlights of Tilson Thomas' tenure include a highly successful campaign to raise the orchestra's profile in San Francisco; a busy schedule of tours of the U.S., Europe, and Asia, including the group's first trip to China; a series of televised performances at the BBC Proms; and opening Carnegie Hall's 2008-2009 season with A Celebration of Leonard Bernstein, which was broadcast on PBS' Great Performances and released on DVD. It also presents semi-staged and multimedia productions, such as Britten's Peter Grimes and Rimsky-Korsakov's Mlada. In 2020, Tilson Thomas concluded his tenure as music director, assuming the title of music director laureate, and Esa-Pekka Salonen became the orchestra's new music director. The San Francisco Symphony has garnered an impressive collection of honors for its recordings, including the Grand Prix du Disque, a Gramophone Award, and a slew of Grammy Awards, including one in 2021 for its recording of Tilson Thomas' From the Diary of Anne Frank and Meditations on Rilke. That year, it issued a recording of Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, Seven Early Songs, and Three Pieces for Orchestra, with Tilson Thomas conducting.
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The San Francisco Symphony is among the country's leading orchestras, with a reputation for adventurous and innovative programming that highlights American composers, focusing on targeting new audiences for orchestral music. Under the direction of long-time music director Michael Tilson Thomas, the San Francisco Symphony developed a world-class reputation for its performances and recordings. In 2021, the orchestra, under Tilson Thomas, was heard on an SFS Media recording of orchestral music by Alban Berg.
The San Francisco Musical Association, established in 1908, founded the San Francisco Symphony, which gave its first concert in 1911. Its early conductors included Henry Hadley and Alfred Hertz. After the orchestra had to cancel its 1934 season for financial reasons, the city ratified an amendment to its charter in 1935, establishing municipal funding for the orchestra. That year, Pierre Monteux was named music director, and under his leadership, the orchestra grew substantially in stature and reputation, making its first national tour and over 40 recordings for RCA. Some of the world's leading conductors have served the orchestra, including Seiji Ozawa, Edo de Waart, and Herbert Blomstedt. In 1980, during de Waart's tenure, the orchestra moved from the War Memorial Opera House, where it had performed since 1932, into the Louise M. Davis Symphony Hall. That same year, it expanded its season to 52 weeks and inaugurated its New and Unusual Music Series, planned by composer John Adams, the orchestra's composer-in-residence, from 1979 until 1985.
In 1995, Michael Tilson Thomas became the orchestra's music director, bringing it to a new level of prominence through its local performances, national and international tours, and many recordings and broadcasts. The orchestra offers more than 220 concerts and other presentations annually, reaching audiences of nearly 600,000 locally and through its tours. The orchestra significantly increased its recording schedule under Tilson Thomas' leadership and founded its own label in 2001, SFS Media. Since that time, it has recorded all of Mahler's symphonic works, including works voice and chorus. The orchestra's discography is broadly diverse but has focused on the music of the Romantic and late-Romantic eras, Russian music, and 20th and 21st century American music.
The orchestra is committed to an ambitious program of education. In 2006, Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony launched the Keeping Score PBS television series and multimedia project, a national program that aired for three seasons. The orchestra offers free community concerts in the Bay Area, plus professional coaching for student and amateur musicians, and its music education program, Adventures in Music, reaches all first- through fifth-grade students in the San Francisco Unified School District. Highlights of Tilson Thomas' tenure include a highly successful campaign to raise the orchestra's profile in San Francisco; a busy schedule of tours of the U.S., Europe, and Asia, including the group's first trip to China; a series of televised performances at the BBC Proms; and opening Carnegie Hall's 2008-2009 season with A Celebration of Leonard Bernstein, which was broadcast on PBS' Great Performances and released on DVD. It also presents semi-staged and multimedia productions, such as Britten's Peter Grimes and Rimsky-Korsakov's Mlada.
In 2020, Tilson Thomas concluded his tenure as music director, assuming the title of music director laureate, and Esa-Pekka Salonen became the orchestra's new music director. The San Francisco Symphony has garnered an impressive collection of honors for its recordings, including the Grand Prix du Disque, a Gramophone Award, and a slew of Grammy Awards, including one in 2021 for its recording of Tilson Thomas' From the Diary of Anne Frank and Meditations on Rilke. That year, it issued a recording of Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, Seven Early Songs, and Three Pieces for Orchestra, with Tilson Thomas conducting.
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Copland: Symphony No. 3
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 13 mars 2020
Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3, or, as he preferred to call it, Third Symphony, is generally classed with his populist, Americanist works of the late ...
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Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 12 avr. 2004
Imagine Mahler's Ninth without tears. The symphony Mahler composed after the death of his daughter and the diagnosis that would soon kill him, the sym ...
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Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 10 oct. 2006
There are plenty of fine recordings of Gustav Mahler's popular Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor, but each decade seems to produce its own landmark rend ...
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Mahler: Symphony No. 7
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 1 janv. 2005
Symphonie n°7 en mi mineur / San Francisco Symphony, dir. Michael Tilson Thomas ...
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Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 17 sept. 2002
This album was the second in the series of Mahler symphonies released by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas; it appeared ...
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Bernstein: West Side Story
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 10 juin 2014
Presented with the idea of a West Coast West Side Story, you might imagine some kind of unorthodox interpretation, but in fact this 2013 production, r ...
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection"
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 1 janv. 1994
As a Mahler conductor, Michael Tilson Thomas is a better Leonard Bernstein. The same sense of inchoate excitement and impending ecstasy that permeated ...
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy-Overture
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 1 janv. 1991
Pour célébrer le 175e anniversaire de la naissance de Tchaikovsky, l’Orchestre de San Francisco et son chef Michael Tilson Thomas publient un tout nou ...
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Adams: Harmonielehre & Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 1 mars 2012
By 2012, the San Francisco Symphony had played about two dozen of John Adams' works, about half of them world premiere or U.S. premiere performances, ...
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Sibelius: The Symphonies
San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 2006
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Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 9 janv. 2020
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 & Adagio from Symphony No. 10
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 25 août 2009
In spite of its small flaws, this is undeniably a great performance of Mahler's Eighth. It has the right balance of line and harmony, the right feel f ...
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Mahler: Symphony No. 3 & Kindertotenlieder
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 11 mars 2001
Michael Tilson Thomas' audiophile recordings of Gustav Mahler's symphonies have garnered much critical approval, and his SACD of the Symphony No. 3 in ...
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 9 sept. 2008
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Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas, Oliver Herbert
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 9 janv. 2020
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Ives: Symphony No. 3, "The Camp Meeting" & Symphony No. 4
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 8 nov. 2019
5 Sterne Fono Forum KlassikPersonnalité pour le moins étrange et déroutante dans l’univers de la musique classique, Charles Ives a grandi dans le Connecticut, au milieu d’un env ...
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Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 2 mars 2003
There are so many great recordings of Mahler's Fourth in the world. There are Bruno Walter recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic, whose warmth and h ...
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 8 avr. 2013
Michael Tilson Thomas et le San Francisco Symphony poursuivent leur cycle Beethoven, avec la Symphonie n°9, l'un des chefs d'oeuvre absolus de l'histo ...
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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 3 nov. 2009
San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas, direction ...
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Mahler: Symphony No. 6
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 1 janv. 2000
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