San Francisco Symphony
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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Moth Into Flame (Live)
Metallica, San Francisco Symphony
Metal - Paru chez Blackened Recordings - Universal Music le 5 août 2020
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique"
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 29 juin 2018
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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring & The Firebird Suite
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 3 nov. 2009
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Wagner: Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 6 mars 2020
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Grieg: Piano Concerto / Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1
Olli Mustonen, San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 oct. 1995
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Reich: Variations; Music for Mallet Instruments; 6 Pianos
San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart
Classique - Paru chez Deutsche Grammophon (DG) le 1 janv. 2002
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Harbison: Symphony No. 2; Oboe Concerto / Sessions: Symphony No. 2
Herbert Blomstedt, San Francisco Symphony
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 mai 1994
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 19 juin 2020
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Nothing Else Matters (Live / Radio Edit)
Metallica, San Francisco Symphony
Metal - Paru chez Blackened Recordings - Universal Music le 5 août 2020
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
Herbert Blomstedt, San Francisco Symphony
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 5 nov. 1991
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Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz, Wolfgang Holzmair, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 1994
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Beethoven: Symphony No.3 - "Eroica"
San Francisco Symphony, Seiji Ozawa
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 1975
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 3 nov. 2009
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Rachmaninoff: Rhapsodie sur un thème de Paganini - De Falla: Nuits dans les jardins d'Espagne (Mono Version)
Arthur Rubinstein, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), San Francisco Symphony
Classique - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1962
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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 3 nov. 2009
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Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
Musique symphonique - Paru chez SFS Media le 30 nov. 2018
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Bernstein: Arias and Barcarolles
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas, Isabel Leonard, Ryan McKinny
Classique - Paru chez SFS Media le 1 sept. 1996
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Ravel: Shéhérazade (Elly Ameling – The Philips Recitals, Vol. 21)
Elly Ameling, San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart
Classique - Paru chez Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. le 1 janv. 1982
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Mahler: Symphony No.4
Margaret Price, San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart
Classique - Paru chez Decca Music Group Ltd. le 1 janv. 1982
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Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain (Mono Version)
Arthur Rubinstein, San Francisco Symphony, Enrique Jorda
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1958
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Movements (feat. AïMA the DRMR)
San Francisco Symphony, Kev Choice
Hip-Hop/Rap - Paru chez SFS Media le 24 sept. 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo