“Other orchestras hardly touch this music, but in San Francisco it has become standard fare, and the authority of the playing was staggering.”
– Alex Ross, The New Yorker
The latest release from Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony features live recordings from the SFS’s highly acclaimed American Mavericks festival. The album, presented in premium audio hybrid SACD, includes Henry Cowell‘s Synchrony and his Piano Concerto (Jeremy Denk, piano), Lou Harrison‘s Concerto for Organ with Percussion Orchestra (Paul Jacobs, organ) and Edgard Varèse’s Amériques.