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Follow on Google News | Michael Tilson Thomas And San Francisco Symphony Win 3 Grammy® Nominations For Mahler SymphoniesThe Latest Release in Ongoing Mahler Cycle Nominated For Best Classical Album, Best Choral Performance, and Best Engineered Classical Album in the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards
By: Janet Wooten With these three nominations the SFS’s Mahler cycle has now received a total of nine Grammy nominations and four Grammy awards to date. The first recording, Mahler’s Symphony No. 6, was released in February 2002 and won the Grammy for Best Orchestral Performance of 2005 and was also nominated for Best Classical Album. Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 and Kindertotenlieder, featuring mezzo-soprano Michelle De Young, the women of the SFS Chorus, the San Francisco Girls Chorus and the Pacific Boy Choir won Best Classical Album in 2003, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, with soprano Laura Claycomb, was nominated for Best Surround Sound Album in 2004. Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 won Best Classical Album and Best Orchestral Performance in 2007. Since the Mahler recording project began in 2001, the San Francisco Symphony has recorded all of the Mahler symphonies, the Adagio from the unfinished Tenth Symphony, Kindertotenlieder and Das Lied von der Erde and released a re-mastered recording of Das klagende Lied. Additional works still to be released include Mahler’s Rückert Lieder, Songs Of A Wayfarer (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen) and selected songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. All of the new SFS/MTT Mahler symphony recordings were produced by Andreas Neubronner and have entered the top ten of the Billboard Classical Chart. Michael Tilson Thomas (http://www.michaeltilsonthomas.com) has distinguished himself as one of the world’s foremost Mahler interpreters, and through his signature performances, as one of the composer’s most compelling advocates. In 1974, at the age of 29, Michael Tilson Thomas (http://www.facebook.com/ For more information about this and other Grammy nominations visit www.grammy.com. MAHLER / SYMPHONY NO. 8 AND ADAGIO FROM SYMPHONY NO. 10 SFS Media 821936-0021- Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor San Francisco Symphony Symphony No. 8 Recorded live in concert November 19, 21, 22 and 23, 2008 in Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, California Adagio from Symphony No.10 recorded live in concert April 6-8, 2006 in Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, California Distribution: Harmonia Mundi (North America excluding Canada) SRI Canada (Canada) Avie (International) Online: sfsymphony.org/ MP3: iTunes, Rhapsody and eMusic and others. End
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