SFS Media’s Mahler series has earned widespread critical acclaim, and received a total of seven Grammy® Awards and nine Grammy® nominations. Launched in 2001, the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas’s series of Gustav Mahler symphony recordings are issued on our in-house recording label SFS Media™.
The most exciting Mahler combination anywhere right now."– Los Angeles Times
Winner of three Grammys®! Best Classical Album, Best Choral Performance, and Best Engineered Classical Album
"...this promises to be a triumphant capstone to the entire cycle." -San Francisco Chronicle
Mahler's immense creation-featuring hundreds of musicians, three choruses, and soloists-is a symphony so epic in scope that it has been dubbed the "Symphony of A Thousand." Mahler's Eighth—a tale of damnation and salvation—is quintessentially a romantic work, but it owes a great debt to the towering Baroque choral works of J.S. Bach.
Recorded live at Davies Symphony Hall during the concerts on September 28 - October 4, 2004, Mahler's last completed symphony covers territory from the amiable Austrian pastoral to the fury of its "Burleske" to the uninhibited baring, in the finale, of the unprotected heart.
Michael Tilson Thomas 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, he made his SFS debut conducting Mahler's Symphony No. 9. Now celebrating his tenth season as Music Director, he and the SFS have formed an orchestral partnership acclaimed for innovation, artistic excellence, and a revitalization of the classical musical experience.
This disc was recorded using Sony Direct Stream Digitaltechnology and released on the SACD hybrid format, featuring 5.1 channel Super Audio playback. It will play on all current standard CD players, as well as on Super Audio CD players.
This set's recordings have been awarded a combined 7 Grammy® Awards!
Introducing The Mahler Project Complete CD Box Set. For the first time ever, all twelve recordings from the esteemed SFS Media/Michael Tilson Thomas Mahler Project are available in a single Hybrid SACD Box Set. Newly packaged in a sleek, compact box, The Mahler Project Complete CD Box Set contains HybirdSACDs of all of Mahler's Symphonies and Songs as recorded by the San Francisco Symphony, with original liner notes compiled into one complete easy to navigate 324-page book.