Michael Tilson Thomsas

San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomsas, John Adams – Adams: Absolute Jest & Grand Pianola Music (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 57:30 minutes | 1,90 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © SFS Media

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony offer the world-premiere recording of John Adams’ Absolute Jest, commissioned by the orchestra, alongside the composer’s Grand Pianola Music, another SFS commission from 30 years earlier, conducted here by the composer. Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony join forces with America’s most-performed living composer, John Adams, in a colossal album featuring Adams’s Absolute Jest and Grand Pianola Music. Hear Adams’s inspired and witty take on Beethoven’s spirited scherzos in this first-ever recording of his SFS- commissioned Absolute Jest. Also featured is Grand Pianola Music, with its tongue-in-cheek allusions to Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto, written for and premiered by the SFS. Both works speak to the deeply personal and vital relationship of some of the top musicians of our time: John Adams, MTT, and the SFS.

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