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MichaelTilson Thomas

Symphony No.8MAHLER

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SFS Media's Mahler series has sold over 100,000 CDs to date and has been recognized with four GRAMMY® Awards: Best Classical Album and Best Orchestral Performance for Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 in 2006, Best Classical Album for Symphony No. 3 and Kindertotenlieder in 2003 and Best Orchestral Performance for Symphony No. 6 in 2002. e label's recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with soprano Laura Claycomb receireceived a Best Surround Sound Album GRAMMY® nomination in 2004. All eight of the Mahler symphony recordings on SFS Media have entered the top ten of the Billboard Classical Chart.

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MAHLER: Symphony No.8Adagio from Symphony No.10Laura Claycomb, Elza van denHeever, Erin Wall (sopranos)Katarina Karnéus, Yvonne Naef(mezzo-sopranos), Anthony DeanGriGriffey (tenor), Quinn Kelsey(baritone), James Morris(bass-baritone)San Francisco Symphony ChorusSan Francisco Girls ChorusPacific BoychoirSan Francisco SymphonyMMichael Tilson ThomasSFS Media • 60021

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Mahler attempted something truly novel in his eighth symphony that affected both its content and its overall structure. He unified the entire work through the expression of a single personal philosophical ideal – the redemptive power of human love. e first part of the symphony is built around a 4th century Latin hymn, "Veni, Creator Spiritus" (Come, spirit of creation). Part two retells the final episode of Goethe's Faust, in which the title character finds salvation. is new live recording featuringfeaturing the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson omas also includes the Adagio from Mahler’s tenth symphony. is release is the final installment in SFS Media's GRAMMY® Award-winning Mahler symphony cycle.

“Tilson Thomas has seasoned his Mahlerian fervour with the kind of contemplative wisdom that comes with age. A dry run with the Eighth two years ago scarcely prepared one for this masterly performance, at once thrilling and evocative, and, fiingly, the final major entry in a live recorded Mahler cycle that, as much as any project of its kind, seems like a conductor’s artistic testament.”

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