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"... Tilson Thomas is a sure guide to the music's emotional breadth as Brant hears it ..." - International Record Review "Five Stars ... (the live recording) is absolutely stunning, with the organ clearly spaced in Davies Hall, allowing Paul Jacobs to be in the foreground and yet an integral part of the orchestra, as the composer intended." - BBC Music Magazine "Paul Jacobs faultlessly exploits this fine score. With this degree of drama, eloquence and style, it's the ideal recording of this incomprehensibly neglected work ... Brant has added an imposing document to the Ives repertoire and these two live recordings are a stunning success." - Gramophone "Four Stars ... (Concord) demands playing of tireless energy and gentle lyrical touch. This superb orchestra rises to the challenges ... it's difficult to imagine a finer performance than (the Organ Symphony), with a mighty solo instrument and the orchestra beautifully balanced against each other." - Classic FM Following closely on the heels of their seven Grammy Award-winning Mahler recording cycle, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony present these superb concert performances of Charles Ives' A Concord Symphony, orchestrated by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Henry Brant, along with Aaron Copland's Organ Symphony featuring organist Paul Jacobs. A Concord Symphony, Brant's orchestral arrangement of Ives' Sonata No. 2 for Piano, was recorded live in February 2010; the Organ Symphony was recorded live in September 2010.