This special release from SFS Media features conductor Donato Cabrera leading the world-renowned San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra in a recording of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.1, performed live at the Berlin Philharmonie during the Orchestra's eighth European tour. This album features one of the finest youth ensembles in the world, comprised of more than one hundred of the Bay Area's most talented young instrumentalists. Mahler's colorful symphony provides ample chance for these future stars to shine.

Directed by Gary Halvorson, David Kennard, Joan Saffa.

SYMPHONY 7

This powerful new recording from Michael Tilson-Thomas and the Grammy Award winning San Francisco Symphony and Chorus pairs Beethoven's colossal Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II with his playful, upbeat Symphony No. 2. Rarely performed or recorded, Beethoven's gripping and profoundly moving funeral cantata proved a revelation during the Symphony's May 2013 Beethoven Project concert series. The recording features a glorious solo quartet - soprano Sally Matthews, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford, tenor Barry Banks and bass-baritone Andrew Foster-Williams. Presented as a premium quality hybrid multi-channel SACD, this album is the latest addition to the San Francisco Symphony's ongoing series of Beethoven recordings.

RITE OF SPRING / FIREBIRD SUITE EXCERPTS

As seen on PBS, the San Francisco Symphony's ongoing series, Keeping Score, explores Berlioz's romantic masterpiece, Smymphonie Fantastique. This orchestral sonic spectacular, written to win the heart of a beautiful actress, demanded sacrifice from it's author and his audience. From romantic daydreams to displays of devotion, the symphony relates an "episode in the life of an artist," that artist being the love-obsessed composer himself. This DVD includes as a bonus a full-length concert performance of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.

SYMPHONY NO. 3

SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE

SYMPHONY 5 / PIANO CONCERTO 4

Directed by Gary Halvorson, David Kennard, Joan Saffa. Starring Michael Tilson Thomas.

Directed by Gary Halvorson, David Kennard, Joan Saffa. Starring San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas.