A standing ovation to the San Francisco Symphony, the top winner in the classical divisions of the just-announced Grammy Awards. Our orchestra scored three Grammys for its recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 and the Adagio from Mahler's unfinished Symphony No. 10, including Best Classical Album.
At the Jan. 31 Grammy ceremony in LA, the SFS recording also was named Best Choral Performance for conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and choir directors Ragnar Bohlin, Kevin Fox & Susan McMane, who led the Pacific Boychoir, San Francisco Girls Chorus and San Francisco Symphony Chorus. Its third Grammy was Best Engineered Classical Album, for engineer Peter Laenger.
The two-disc, live concert recording is the latest in SFS and MTT's continuing series of Mahler symphony recordings, which began in 2001. For the project, SFS established its own in-house label, SFS Media--the first orchestra in the country to do so. Thus far, the orchestra has recorded all of Mahler's symphonies, the Adagio from the uncompleted No. 10 and other songs. Still to be recorded are a few of Mahler's works for voice and orchestra, which is to be finished this year.
MTT is considered one of the world's most distinguished interpreters of Mahler. The Mahler project has racked up seven Grammys total (including this year's three). In addition, SFS has been awarded seven Grammys for non-Mahler recordings.
The SFS website has more information about the Mahler Project and about the production of the triple-Grammy Symphony No. 8 and Adagio from No. 10 recording, including an audiovisual clip.
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