Symphpny No.1 : Cabrera / San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (Berlin 2012)

Live at the Berlin Philharmonie, Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (CD)

The award winning San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra performs Mahler's Symphony No. 1, recorded live at the Berlin Philharmonie.

The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra is a pre-professional orchestral training program serving talented young instrumentalists ages 12-21 from across the greater Bay Area. Led by Music Director Donato Cabrera, the Youth Orchestra made its ninth international tour in the summer of 2012 with concerts in Germany, Austria, and Luxembourg. The six-date tour included performances at Regensburg's Auditorium Maximum, Munich's Philharmonie am Gasteig, at Wiesbaden's Rheingau Festival, Luxembourg's Festival international d'Echternach, in the Berliner Philharmonie, and Europa Hall in Salzburg. Tour repertoire included Bay Area composer John Adams's Shaker Loops, Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture, and the here featured Mahler's Symphony No. 1.

The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra won a 2011-12 ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming of American Music on foreign tours. ( San Francisco Symphony )


Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Symphony No. 1 in D major [55:18]
I. Langsam. Schleppend. (Slow. Dragging.) [16:32]
II. Kraftig bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell (With powerful movement, but not too fast) [7:54]
III. Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen (Solemn and measured, without dragging) [10:25]
IV. Sturmisch bewegt (With violent movement) [20:27]

San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra
Donato Cabrera, conductor

Recorded live in PCM 44.1 kHz/16-bit audio at the Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany, July 3, 2012.