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Author: Alphie
Date: 2008-02-01 14:16
Last night I played Mahler 6th with San Francisco Symphony’s music director Michael Tilson-Thomas. It was a fantastic experience and the best Mahler 6 I’ve ever participated in. He started the program before intermission with a pre-concert-talk about Mahler and the history behind the work, his own ideas interpreting the work based on Mahler’s ideas and his own meeting with Alma Mahler as a ten year old boy in his godfather’s bookstore in L.A.
Michael Tilson-Thomas is the type of conductor that I love, who has a deep knowledge and dedication to his mission. His humble appearance before the orchestra and the score itself is also very attractive. Besides that he is a very good conductor.
I love his response from an interviewer regarding he’s choice of favourite composers: “You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers; they simply define what music is!”
Alphie
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Author: mozartmlle622
Date: 2008-02-01 16:51
Amazing! Thank you for telling that little story. Love the favorite composer quote. And Michael Tilson-Thomas' Mahler recordings are absolutely phenomenal...
Working with him must've been a thrill for you.
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Author: Alphie
Date: 2008-02-01 17:12
Fortunately the concert was recorded for later publishing on the web. I’ll put the link here as soon as it’s available.
Alphie
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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2008-02-01 17:25
Yes please do keep us posted.
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Sylvain Bouix <sbouix@gmail.com>
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Author: Ed Svoboda
Date: 2008-02-01 20:55
Tilson-Thomas has become one of the top Mahler conductors and I've really enjoyed his released recordings. I can't wait to see the link for this concert.
www.woodwindforum.com/forums
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2008-02-01 21:53
His 7th with the LSO is stunning. I bought this as preparation for my first concert at the RCM playing principle with Andrew Litton.
Peter Cigleris
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2008-02-06 18:55
Tilson Thomas is a great conductor..his Mahler is superb and always interesting.
David Dow
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2008-02-06 20:14
The last of the televised 2007 BBC Proms concerts (or the penultimate Proms concert) was the SFSO/Tilson-Thomas doing Mahler 7.
As for Mahler 6, I do like the (unpredictable) horn solo in the slow movement - gets me choked every time I hear it (and the cor anglais solo has a low Bb - alright if the player has a German spec cor!). Though our last bandmaster (a horn player) said 'it's too Disney' - OUCH! I doubt neither Mahler nor Walt Disney would have been chuffed with that comment!
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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