This week Michael Tilson Thomas leads pianist Emanuel Ax and the San Francisco Symphony in performances of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto at Davies Symphony Hall in concerts from September 26 to 28. The program also features Mahler’s Blumine, along with various short orchestral works, including Copland’s Music from Our Town, Debussy’s La plus que lente, Delius’s On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Sibelius’s Valse Triste, Rachmaninoff’sVocalise, and Delibes’s “Cortège of …
ICA Classics has released on DVD Michael Tilson Thomas’s 1970 performances of music by Charles Ives, Richard Wagner and Jean Sibelius with the Boston Symphony Orchestra . The recordings, which were originally recorded for WGBH’s Evening at Symphony, capture MTT leading the BSO in Ives’s Three Places in New England, Sibelius’s Fourth Symphony, and “Dawn” and “Siegfried’s Rhine Journey” from Wagner’s Götterdämmerung.
This week Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony in performances of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall September 18 to 21. The performances anticipate MTT and the Orchestra’s upcoming U.S. tour in November 2013, when they will present Mahler’s Ninth at New York’s Carnegie Hall (November 14) and Ann Arbor’s Hill Auditorium (November 16).
Next week at the San Francisco Symphony, Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas conducts works by Zosha Di Castri, Tchaikovsky, and Prokofiev. Joining the concert program is pianist Yefim Bronfman, who guests for Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. MTT also conducts the West Coast premiere of Lineage by Canadian composer Zosha Di Castri, commissioned as part of San Francisco Symphony’s New Voices partnership with the New World Symphony and Boosey & …