Ives A Concord Symphony, Copland Organ Symphony : Tilson Thomas / San Francisco Symphony, P.Jacobs(Org)

Charles Ives (1874-1954) / Henry Brant (1913-2008) : A Concord Symphony
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) : Organ Symphony

Paul Jacobs, organ
San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

A Concord Symphony recorded live at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, February 3-6, 2010
Organ Symphony recorded live at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, September 22-25, 2010
SACD Hybrid
CD STEREO/ SACD STEREO/ SACD SURROUND


The Concord Sonata for Piano is vintage Ives... colorful, inventive, advanced, and ultimately highly regarded. Henry Brant took the sonata, with its themes of transcendentalism, and created the fully orchestrated Symphony. Paul Jacobs joins the Orchestra for the storied Organ Symphony, a performance Joshua Kosman called “a marvel...”.

"With organist Paul Jacobs as the nimble soloist and the orchestra at its robust and delicate best, this disc promises to be a keeper... Thomas and the orchestra delivered this music with full-throated vigor, and Jacobs made a sonorous contribution to the whole." -Joshua Kosman, San Franicsco Chronicle ( San Francisco Symphony )