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Thrilling Adams and Mahler from Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony

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Reviewed at Usher Hall, Edinburgh on 27 August 2015
Schoenberg, Theme and Variations, Op.43b
Adams, Absolute Jest, for string quartet and orchestra
Mahler, Symphony no. 1 in D major "Titan"
St Lawrence String Quartet
Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
Osvaldo Golijov and the St Lawrence Quartet cross cultures at Zankel Hall
****1
St Lawrence String Quartet at Music Toronto make Haydn, Britten and Zwilich sing
****1
Adams conducts Adams at the Barbican with the LSO and St Lawrence String Quartet
*****
San Francisco Symphony: American Mavericks at Carnegie Hall
****1
No Holds Barred: The St. Lawrence String Quartet at Walter Hall
****1
Uplifting Mahler 2 from Tilson Thomas and the LSO
****1
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