Mahler Project Recordings
"The most exciting Mahler combination anywhere right now."
– Los Angeles Times
New Release! Mahler's Symphony No. 8 and Adagio from Symphony No. 10
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"one of the grand highlights of the orchestra's self-produced Mahler cycle… an astounding achievement - capacious in scope, meticulous in its attention to detail and bristling with vocal, instrumental and dramatic delights." — San Francisco Chronicle
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Mahler Project Recordings
Launched in 2001, the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas’s series of critically acclaimed Gustav Mahler symphony recordings are issued on our in-house recording label SFS Media™. The first U.S. orchestra to form its own label, the San Francisco Symphony has recorded all of the Mahler symphonies, the Adagio from the unfinished Tenth Symphony, Kindertotenlieder and Das Lied von der Erde and released a re-mastered recording of Das klagende Lied. Additional works still to be released include Mahler’s Rückert Lieder, Songs Of A Wayfarer (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen) and Des Knaben Wunderhorn. This future album of Mahler’s works for voice and orchestra will complete the project in 2010.
SFS Media’s Mahler series has sold over 130,000 units worldwide and has earned international critical acclaim. The Mahler cycle has received a total of four Grammy® Awards and six Grammy® nominations. The Orchestra’s recording of Symphony No. 7 received two 2006 Grammy® Awards in the categories of Best Classical Album and Best Orchestral Performance. The first recording, Mahler’s Symphony No. 6, released in 2002, won the Grammy® for Best Orchestral Performance, and was also nominated for Best Classical Album. Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 and Kindertotenlieder, featuring mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, the women of the SFS Chorus, the San Francisco Girls Chorus and the Pacific Boy Choir, won Best Classical Album in 2003, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, with soprano Laura Claycomb, was nominated for Best Surround Sound Album in 2004.
Mahler Recordings
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No.2
Symphony No.3 and Kindertotenlieder
Grammy Award for Best Classical Album (2003)
Symphony No.4
Symphony No.5
Symphony No.6
Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance (2002)
Symphony No.7
Grammy Award for Best Classical Album (2006) and Best Orchestral Performance (2006)
Symphony No.8 & Adagio from No. 10
Symphony No.9
Das klagende Lied
Das Lied von der Erde
Purchase the Mahler recordings at the Symphony Store in Davies Symphony Hall or at the Symphony eStore. The Mahler recordings are also available as MP3s through iTunes, Rhapsody and eMusic.
Credits
The Mahler recordings were produced by Andreas Neubronner. All of the Mahler recordings are released on Super Audio CD (SACD) format through a contribution from Sony Music Corp. SACD provides the precision of digital technology while retaining the warmth of analog sound.
The Mahler recordings are distributed in the U.S. by Harmonia Mundi USA and available at retail outlets nationwide. They are distributed internationally by Avie and in Canada by SRI Canada.
Mahler Project Sponsors
These recordings are made possible by the encouragement and generous leadership funding of the Ann and Getty Foundation. Additional support was provided by Nancy and Joachim Bechtle, the Buffet Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County, and John E. Hurley, Jr. and Jo S. Hurley.
Special thanks to David Kawakami and Colin Cigarran of the Sony Super Audio CD project.
