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Michael Tilson Thomas: Complete Deutsche Grammophon & Argo Recordings | Australian Eloquence ELQ4846836

Michael Tilson Thomas: Complete Deutsche Grammophon & Argo Recordings

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Label: Australian Eloquence

Cat No: ELQ4846836

Barcode: 0028948468362

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 14

Release Date: 25th October 2024

Contents

Artists

Michael Tilson Thomas (piano)
Marie McLaughlin (soprano)
Frederica von Stade (mezzo-soprano)
Tyne Daly (voice)
Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Alan Feinberg (piano)
Jean-Marc Luisada (piano)
Ertan Torgul (violin)
Paul Zukofsky (violin)
Robert Cohen (cello)
Mischa Maisky (cello)
John Harle (alto saxophone)
Gregory Miller (horn)
Tisha Murvihill (harp)
Boston Symphony Chamber Players
New World Brass
Boston Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
New World Symphony

Conductor

Michael Tilson Thomas

Works

Bernstein, Leonard

A Quiet Place
Arias and Barcarolles
On the Town
West Side Story: Symphonic Dances

Caturla, Alejandro Garcia

Cuban Dances (3)

Chavez, Carlos

Symphony no.2 'Sinfonia india'

Copland, Aaron

Danzon Cubano

Costello, Elvis

Il sogno

Dahl, Ingolf

Alto Saxophone Concerto
Hymn
Music for Six Brass Instruments
The Tower of Saint Barbara

Debussy, Claude

Cello Sonata in D minor, L135
Images pour orchestre
Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un faune
Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Syrinx for solo flute
Violin Sonata in G minor, L148

Feldman, Morton

Cello and Orchestra
Coptic Light
Piano and Orchestra

Ginastera, Alberto

Danzas from Estancia (3), op.8b

Grieg, Edvard

Piano Concerto in A minor, op.16

Ives, Charles

Three Places in New England

Piazzolla, Astor

Tangazo: Variations on Buenos Aires

Piston, Walter

Symphony no.2

Revueltas, Silvestre

Sensemaya

Roldan, Amadeo

La Rebambaramba: ballet suite
Ritmica V

Ruggles, Carl

Sun-Treader

Schuman, William

Violin Concerto

Schumann, Robert

Piano Concerto in A minor, op.54

Shostakovich, Dmitri

Cello Concerto no.1 in E flat major, op.107
Cello Concerto no.2 in G major, op.126

Stravinsky, Igor

Le Roi des etoiles
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps)

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Symphony no.1 in G minor, op.13 'Winter Daydreams'

Artists

Michael Tilson Thomas (piano)
Marie McLaughlin (soprano)
Frederica von Stade (mezzo-soprano)
Tyne Daly (voice)
Thomas Hampson (baritone)
Alan Feinberg (piano)
Jean-Marc Luisada (piano)
Ertan Torgul (violin)
Paul Zukofsky (violin)
Robert Cohen (cello)
Mischa Maisky (cello)
John Harle (alto saxophone)
Gregory Miller (horn)
Tisha Murvihill (harp)
Boston Symphony Chamber Players
New World Brass
Boston Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
New World Symphony

Conductor

Michael Tilson Thomas

About

Michael Tilson Thomas’s complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon (1970–2003) and Argo (1992–1995) encapsulate the conductor’s restlessly exploratory nature and masterful handling of the modern orchestra. The recordings in this collection demonstrate his superb ear for complex rhythms and textures, an orchestral builder, as well as an inspired interpreter of the widest imaginable range of music.

Even the most cynical of critics set aside their Beckmesser’s slate when Michael Tilson Thomas stepped on to the international stage in the early 1970s when Deutsche Grammophon released albums of Tchaikovsky, Debussy and American music. They were made near the start of his tenure as the Boston Symphony’s Assistant Conductor, and they demonstrated a preternatural assurance as well as a superb ear for complex rhythms and textures.

Tilson Thomas’s first period with DG was relatively short-lived – just a couple of years – but it also took in his scintillating pianism, accompanying BSO principals in Debussy sonatas, and a viscerally exact Stravinsky Rite of Spring, as well as, of course, the luminous account of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Winter Dreams’ Symphony (still considered a benchmark recording of this work). All the repertoire played to his strengths, and demonstrated his considerable talents as an orchestral builder as well as an inspired interpreter of the widest imaginable range of music.

Once installed as Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra, Tilson Thomas rekindled his DG relationship with two definitive albums of music by his mentor Leonard Bernstein. On The Town and Arias and Barcarolles both feature Frederica von Stade and Thomas Hampson, who were also close and long-standing associates of the composer. The LSO/DG partnership also featured typically insightful and sympathetic performances of concertos with pianist Jean-Marc Luisada and cellist Mischa Maisky. With Il sogno, Elvis Costello’s ballet score for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the conductor’s skill at shaping the most eclectic range of styles comes to the fore.

Finally, the set brings together for the first time the Argo recordings made by Tilson Thomas with the New World Symphony, which he founded in 1997 as a ‘training orchestra’ but which rapidly established itself as an international-calibre ensemble, capable of taking on the most challenging repertoire. With them, Tilson Thomas produced an exhilarating album of Latin American dances (Tangazo), a sensuous survey of Morton Feldman’s orchestral music, and finally a loving tribute to his teacher from college days, the composer Ingolf Dahl. If Dahl’s music is still too little known, the reissue of this album should bring it new friends.

Reissued with original jackets, the set includes a new appreciation of the conductor’s career by Peter Quantrill.

‘The finest available studio recording of the Second Concerto ... Few have tended the Largo’s opening bars as lovingly as Mischa Maisky ... Tilson Thomas points and articulates with his usual skill.’ – Gramophone, April 1995 (Shostakovich: Cello Concertos)

‘The casting for the occasion was masterly, from the LSO and Tilson Thomas, taking up the Bernstein mantle with tremendous panache, upwards.’ – Gramophone, November 1994 (Bernstein: On The Town)

‘London’s symphonic musicians (and choral singers) can now apparently handle this stuff as well as Americans, and Thomas gets maximum energy and punch from first-rate performers.’ – Stereo Review, March 1994 (Bernstein: On The Town)

‘Hampson and von Stade don’t miss a trick. Individually and as sparring partners, they come on a treat ... The sound is echt-Bernstein.’ – Gramophone, November 1996 (Bernstein: Arias and Barcarolles)

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