Browse: DVD Video, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
As in previous issues, the wealth of solidly researched detail is musically provocative and visually stimulating...Tilson Thomas presents Mahler as embracing both [Jewish and Christian roots]... — More…
Awards:
Bernstein at 100
The Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood
Nadine Sierra (soprano), Kian Soltani (cello), Isabel Leonard (Maria), Jessica Vosk (Anita), Tony Yazbeck (Tony), Thomas Hampson (baritone), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Jessica Zhou (harp), Nadine Sierra (soprano), Susan Graham (mezzo), Audra McDonald (soprano)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Symphony...
The Tanglewood Festival Chorus raise the roof, with help from soloists Nadine Sierra and Susan Graham…The love for Lenny really comes through in these performances…The production is served well... — More…
Offer, Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel & Ein Heldenleben
London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas
At his finest, in Till Eulenspiegel, Michael Tilson Thomas proves an ideal narrator...This is no merely an intellectual analysis but a gripping exposition of how a masterpiece can satisfyingly... — More…
Celebration of Bernstein
Christine Ebersole (vocals), Thomas Hampson (baritone), Yo-Ya Ma (cello), Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
it's rhythmically taut, but rather too polished to convey the earthy danger of the music that comes across strongly in the documentary...Still, the package as a whole is a good introduction to... — More…
Offer, Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Ives, Sibelius & Wagner
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas
This vintage music-making, captured in slightly faded colour, limited camera angles (big on music stands) and sound officially described as 'enhanced mono', is well worth exploring. — More…
Revolutions in Music - Copland and the American Sound
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas
charismatic musical evangelism … genuinely fresh ideas about the presentation of classical music to a mass audience — More…