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Grammy Award - Best Classical Album, 2010 Grammy Award - Best Choral Performance, 2010 Grammy Award - Best Engineered Album, Classical, 2010 "Tilson Thomas's reading is always warm and spontaneous-sounding but its real strength lies in the way phrases connect ... (he draws) more colour and variety from the score than almost any of his rivals” ..." - Gramophone "The soundstage is panoramic in its breadth; the choruses, orchestra and soloists are so carefully balanced across the acoustic space that no single component overwhelms the others. Here, one experiences the music as it sounds in the concert hall ..." - Fanfare "Five Stars ... distinctive for its deft combination of lean sonority, clean playing, clear recording, probing insights and characterization ... remarkably transparent yet impactful recorded sound ... never before has this music seemed so delicate and concentrated, so redolent of the magical intimacy of chamber music ... one of the most consistently satisfying and stimulating Mahler Eighths ..." - BBC Music Magazine The San Francisco Symphony and noted Mahlerian Michael Tilson Thomas present Mahler's immense Symphony No. 8, featuring scores of musicians, three choruses and a cast of soloists, recorded live in concert in November 2008. A tale of damnation and salvation, the symphony is quintessentially a romantic work, but it owes a great debt to the towering Baroque choral works of J.S. Bach. This triple-Grammy winning album is a volume in the highly acclaimed complete cycle of Mahler symphonies from the SFS, recorded between 2001 and 2009.