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Michael Tilson Thomas

GRACE, the music of

Pentatone
Release Date: October 18, 2024

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1 Agnegram  
2 Not Everyone Thinks That I’m Beautiful  
3 Street Song with the Bay Brass / Street Song I  
4 Street Song II  
5 Street Song III  
6 From the Diary of Anne Frank - Instrumental Intro  
7 Part 1 - “I hope I shall be able to confide...”  
8 Part 1 - “It’s an odd idea...”  
9 Part 1 - “There is a saying...”  
10 Part 2 - “Dear Kitty. So much has happened...”  
11 Part 2 - “Daddy began to tell us...”  
12 Part 2 - “I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed...”  
13 Part 2 - Instrumental  
14 Part 3 - “I believe that it’s spring...”  
15 Part 3 - “Do you gather a bit of what I mean...”  
16 Part 4 - “I want to go on living...”  
17 Sentimental Again  
18 Whitman Songs / I. Who Goes There?  
19 II. At Ship’s Helm  
20 III. We Two Boys Together Clinging  
21 Poems of Emily Dickinson / I. Down Time’s Quaint Stream  
22 II. The Bible  
23 III. Of God We Ask One Favor  
24 IV. Fame  
25 V. The Earth Has Many Keys  
26 VI. Nature Studies  
27 VII. Take All Away From Me  
28 I’m Nobody! Who are you?  
29 Urban Legend  
30 Symphony Cowgirl  
31 Notturno  
32 Island Music / Introduction: Long Familiar Refrains  
33 Part One: Thoughts on the Dance Floor  
34 Part Two: In the Clearing  
35 Part Three: Ride Outs  
36 Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind  
37 Meditations on Rilke / Herbtsttag  
38 Ich lebe mein Leben in wachsenden Ringen  
39 Das Lied des Trinkers  
40 Immer wieder  
41 Imaginärer Lebenslauf  
42 Herbst  
43 Snappy Patter  
44 Upon Further Reflection / Bygone Beguine  
45 Soliloquy  
46 You Come Here Often?  
47 Lope  
48 Grace  
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In celebration of his 80th birthday, PENTATONE will honor Michael Tilson Thomas’ lifetime of contributions as a composer by releasing a deluxe collection of CDs and digital recordings of his compositions. This four-disc set spans more than five decades of his compositional career and features 18 works, from premiere recordings to remastered archival recordings available for the first time.

The collection also includes an extensive booklet containing composer’s notes, original essays, and a timeline of archival photos chronicling MTT’s life as a pianist, conductor, composer, recording artist, and teacher.

All net proceeds from GRACE: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas will be donated to brain cancer research at the UCSF Brain Tumor Center.

There are two key times in an artist’s life. The first is inventing yourself.
The second, the harder part, is going the distance.
How do you sustain the vision, make it grow, and share it? To be an artist means to have the courage for rebirth and growth. It’s never ending.    Michael Tilson Thomas

  • Michael Tilson Thomas to celebrate 80th birthday with 80 CD collection / SFCV
    Posted At: October 25, 2024
    SFCV - Janos Gereben writes……During the quarter century of Michael Tilson Thomas’s wondrous tenure as music director of the San Francisco Symphony, he conducted hundreds of concerts that were broadcast, televised, and recorded, winning 11 Grammy Awards, including six for his interpretations of Gustav Mahler.Those recordings are a clear indication of MTT’s tremendous range, yet performances with the SF Symph...

  • 'Grace' fills out Michael Tilson Thomas' compositional catalogue, deepening our appreciation of it / the arts fuse
    Posted At: October 25, 2024
    the arts fuse - Jonathan Blumhofer writes……This album fills out Michael Tilson Thomas’s compositional catalogue, deepening our appreciation of it. More fundamentally, it adds meaningfully to the story of American concert music.Many, the Bible tells us, are called. Few are chosen.As any New Testament scholar will tell you, that wasn’t a reference to important conductors who also prove to be significant compo...

  • MTT is celebrating his 80th birthday with a renewed belief in the miracle of music / FINANCIAL TIMES
    Posted At: September 16, 2024
    Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas: ‘Why have I kept on doing this? It really is about relationships’ After a brain cancer diagnosis, ‘MTT’ is celebrating his 80th birthday with a renewed belief in the ‘miracle of music’FINANCIAL TIMES - Richard Fairman writes…….“At nearly 80 years old, I find I am considerably more open and flexible now than people 10 or 20 years younger. I thank the genetic or cultural influ...
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