A LIMITED EDITION of the Grammy® Award-winning series.

A SPECIALLY DESIGNED AND NUMBERED DELUXE BOXED SET
This incredible collection will be pressed on vinyl one time only.

“This has been a landmark Mahler cycle… there’s now no better orchestra in the U.S. than Tilson Thomas’s SFS for Mahler. If you’ve not yet sampled the cycle… just pick your favorite Mahler to start. But do start.”

— FANFARE MAGAZINE

Including:

• Symphonies Nos. 1-9
• Adagio from Symphony No. 10
• Kindertotenlieder
• Das klagende Lied
• Das Lied von der Erde
• Songs with Orchestra
• Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
• Rückert-Lieder
• Selections from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
• Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
• Rückert-Lieder for piano and voice
• Des Knaben Wunderhorn

The deluxe 22-LP set is the capstone of the seven-time Grammy® Award-winning and five star Diâpason d’Or Mahler Cycle recorded live at Davies Symphony Hall from 2001-2009. The series, released in individual installments on Hybrid SACD, was a commercial success and was lauded with critical acclaim. This one-time only offer will be limited to 500 individually numbered sets. The first 250 sets will be signed by Michael Tilson Thomas.

We are pleased to announce that the San Francisco Symphony has received a confirmed pressing date from our vinyl manufacturer in Austria for creating the Mahler Recording Project Vinyl Box Set. It will go to press on November 15 and immediately following the pressing all twenty-two 180g virgin vinyl discs + the bonus 45 rpm discs that comprise the box set will be hand-assembled into individual sleeves and a collector’s edition box. We anticipate delivery to our customers 4-6 weeks from that date. We thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm for the project and for the artistry of Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony and greatly value your patience with this very specialized process.  We hope you will be as thrilled with the results as we are.

Features

• Numbered, limited to 1000 sets
• First 250 sets signed by Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas
• 22 180g vinyl LPs, each housed in luxuriously designed, separate jackets
• LP mastering by Kevin Gray at Acous Tech Mastering
• Hardbound book with extensive liner notes, bios, and texts in three languages, plus archival photographs
• Special outer shipping box or extra protection
• Over 18 hours of music

Soloists

Isabel Bayrakdarian, Laura Claycomb, Michelle DeYoung, Susan Graham, Anthony Dean Griffey, Thomas Hampson, Elza van den Heever, Katarina Karnéus, Quinn Kelsey, Sergei Leiferkus, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, James Morris, Thomas Moser, Yvonne Naef, Marina Shaguch, Stuart Skelton, Erin Wall

With:

San Francisco Symphony Chorus, Pacific Boychoir, San Francisco Girls Chorus

This 22-LP set is the capstone of the seven-time Grammy® Award-winning Mahler Recording Project, recorded live at Davies Symphony Hall from 2001-2009. The series, released in individual installments on Hybrid SACD, was a commercial success and lauded with endless laurels of critical acclaim.

FEATURES 

• Numbered, limited to 500 sets
• First 250 sets signed by Music Director, Michael Tilson Thomas
• 22 180g vinyl LPs, housed in luxuriously designed, gatefold jackets
• Hard bound book featuring extensive liner notes, bios, and texts in three languages, plus archival photographic material of Mahler
• The complete Mahler Symphonies, 1-9
• Adagio from Symphony No. 10
• Kindertotenlieder, Das klagende Lied, Das Lied von der Erde, Songs with Orchestra
• An exclusive bonus 45 of Susan Graham and MTT performing the piano version of the Rücket-Lieder
• Over 18 hours of music
• Originally recorded to DSD, remastered at 96k/24bit