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This 2020 release was Michael Tilson Thomas' final album as conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. That he chose to present his own music suggests that he considers it underexposed, and he makes a good case. The two works were written 30 years apart, and although they share a common use of tonality, ranging from conventional to atonal, they are entirely different in most ways. From the Diary of Anne Frank was composed in 1990 for actress Audrey Hepburn in connection with her United Nations work. Frank's words are spoken, in melodrama fashion, over an illustrative orchestral background, and the fine reader here is Isabel Leonard, in an unaffected American accent. Meditations on Rilke was composed in 2019, and it hardly sounds like anything you might imagine from the title. From the opening passage of honky-tonk piano, recalling a small-town sojourn of Rilke's father, the score is startlingly eclectic. The reference point here is the orchestral songs of Mahler, and the cycle suggests a 21st century version of that composer. That sounds odd with poetry by Rilke, which has a certain specific mood, but somehow it works, and the cycle has a pleasing quality of being jam-packed with ideas. The San Francisco Symphony plays with total commitment to the occasion, and this release might easily stimulate interest in Tilson Thomas' other music.
© TiVo
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From the Diary of Anne Frank, Pt. 1 (Michael Tilson Thomas)
San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas, Composer - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
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Isabel Leonard, Narrator - San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas, Composer - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
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Isabel Leonard, Narrator - San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas, Composer - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
© 2020 San Francisco Symphony ℗ 2020 San Francisco Symphony
Isabel Leonard, Narrator - San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas, Composer - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
© 2020 San Francisco Symphony ℗ 2020 San Francisco Symphony
From the Diary of Anne Frank, Pt. 2 (Michael Tilson Thomas)
Isabel Leonard, Narrator - San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas, Composer - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
© 2020 San Francisco Symphony ℗ 2020 San Francisco Symphony
Isabel Leonard, Narrator - San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas, Composer - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
© 2020 San Francisco Symphony ℗ 2020 San Francisco Symphony
Isabel Leonard, Narrator - San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas, Composer - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
© 2020 San Francisco Symphony ℗ 2020 San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas, Composer - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
© 2020 San Francisco Symphony ℗ 2020 San Francisco Symphony
From the Diary of Anne Frank, Pt. 3 (Michael Tilson Thomas)
Isabel Leonard, Narrator - San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas, Composer - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
© 2020 San Francisco Symphony ℗ 2020 San Francisco Symphony
Isabel Leonard, Narrator - San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas, Composer - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
© 2020 San Francisco Symphony ℗ 2020 San Francisco Symphony
Isabel Leonard, Narrator - San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas, Composer - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
© 2020 San Francisco Symphony ℗ 2020 San Francisco Symphony
Isabel Leonard, Narrator - San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas, Composer - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
© 2020 San Francisco Symphony ℗ 2020 San Francisco Symphony
Meditations on Rilke (Michael Tilson Thomas)
Ryan McKinny, Bass-Baritone - San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor - Michael Tilson Thomas, Composer
© 2020 San Francisco Symphony ℗ 2020 San Francisco Symphony
Sasha Cooke, Mezzo-soprano - San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor - Michael Tilson Thomas, Composer
© 2020 San Francisco Symphony ℗ 2020 San Francisco Symphony
Ryan McKinny, Bass-Baritone - San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor - Michael Tilson Thomas, Composer
© 2020 San Francisco Symphony ℗ 2020 San Francisco Symphony
Sasha Cooke, Mezzo-soprano - San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor - Michael Tilson Thomas, Composer
© 2020 San Francisco Symphony ℗ 2020 San Francisco Symphony
Sasha Cooke, Mezzo-soprano - Ryan McKinny, Bass-Baritone - San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor - Michael Tilson Thomas, Composer
© 2020 San Francisco Symphony ℗ 2020 San Francisco Symphony
Ryan McKinny, Bass-Baritone - San Francisco Symphony - Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor - Michael Tilson Thomas, Composer
© 2020 San Francisco Symphony ℗ 2020 San Francisco Symphony
Album review
This 2020 release was Michael Tilson Thomas' final album as conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. That he chose to present his own music suggests that he considers it underexposed, and he makes a good case. The two works were written 30 years apart, and although they share a common use of tonality, ranging from conventional to atonal, they are entirely different in most ways. From the Diary of Anne Frank was composed in 1990 for actress Audrey Hepburn in connection with her United Nations work. Frank's words are spoken, in melodrama fashion, over an illustrative orchestral background, and the fine reader here is Isabel Leonard, in an unaffected American accent. Meditations on Rilke was composed in 2019, and it hardly sounds like anything you might imagine from the title. From the opening passage of honky-tonk piano, recalling a small-town sojourn of Rilke's father, the score is startlingly eclectic. The reference point here is the orchestral songs of Mahler, and the cycle suggests a 21st century version of that composer. That sounds odd with poetry by Rilke, which has a certain specific mood, but somehow it works, and the cycle has a pleasing quality of being jam-packed with ideas. The San Francisco Symphony plays with total commitment to the occasion, and this release might easily stimulate interest in Tilson Thomas' other music.
© TiVo
Details of original recording : Recorded Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, November 2018 & January 2020
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 18 track(s)
- Total length: 01:20:50
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: San Francisco Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas
- Composer: Michael Tilson Thomas
- Label: SFS Media
- Area: Etats-Unis d'Amérique
- Genre: Classical
- Period: Contemporary music
© 2020 San Francisco Symphony ℗ 2020 San Francisco Symphony
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