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Sinfonische Werke
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(DVD - Code 2)
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| Michael Tilson Thomas first conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the age of twenty-four, when he was caIled on to repIace WilIiam Steinberg midway through a concert on 22 October 1969. This turned out to be the beginning of an extremeIy varied and exciting career that continues to this day. Even at this very early stage, Tilson Thomas had already worked with Stravinsky, CopIand, Boulez and Heifetz, and he has since been made a ChevaIier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France and won ten Grammy Awards for his recordings. In 2010, President Obama awarded him the NationaI Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the United States Government. ln 1970, TiIson Thomas recorded a series of spring concerts with the BSO and this DVD features titles from that period. Tilson Thomas has Iong been a champion of the composer lves, and here conducts Three PIaces in New EngIand in a concert recorded at Symphony HalI in Boston on 13 January. As Tilson Thomas says, Ives s music is gleeful, goofy, ecstatic and nostalgic, but aIways in the service of his larger goal, which is like MahIer s: to create a whole musical world. The second piece featured is Sibelius s Symphony No.4 a notoriously difficuIt and rhythmicaIIy demanding work that Tilson Thomas handles with a brooding grace, enhancing and drawing out the immaculately and intricately created textures. Tilson Thomas studied with Wagner s granddaughter, FriedeIind, and subsequently spent the summer of 1966 as assistant conductor at the Bayreuther Festspiele. Fittingly, then, the programme finishes with Wagner s Dawn and Siegfried s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung a performance fulI of excitement and rhythmic vitaIity. The DVD aIso features an excIusive interview with Michael TiIson Thomas, providing a fascinating insight into the performances captured here on film. This is the first reIease of this material on DVD. |
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