Works for orchestra
By: Mason Bates
Contributors: Tilson Thomas, Michael, 1944- conductor; Bates, Mason; Bates, Mason; Bates, Mason; San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Published: 2016
Format: [sound recording] /
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Orchestral music; Electronic music
Work titles: Orchestra music
Description: Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony release an exhilarating album of composer Mason Bates's large-scale works for orchestra and electronica. One of the most creative and ingenuous synthesists of recent time, these works show Bates reimagining the dimensions of symphonic music by integrating jazz, techno, drum-n-bass, field recordings of a FermiLab particle collider, and more. Features recording from The B-Sides; Liquid Interface; and Alternative Energy.
Notes: Title from container.

Program notes, in part by the composer, and biographical notes on the composer and performers in English, French, and German (31 pages : portraits) inserted in container.

Mason Bates, electronica ; San Francisco Symphony ; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor.

recorded live Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco 2014 January 8-11.

recorded live Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco 2014 January 15-18.

recorded live Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco 2014 September 10-13.

"Super audio CD. This stereo hybrid SACD is compatible with all CD players and includes high definition stereo and surround tracks that can be read by SACD players"--Container.
Table of contents: title: The B-sides (21:43): I. Broom of the system (4:12) ; II. Aerosol melody (Hanalei) (4:00) ; III. Gemini in the solar wind (5:32) ; IV. Temescal noir (3:14) ; V. Warehouse medicine (4:45); title: Liquid interface (23:34): I. Glaciers calving (6:47) ; II. Scherzo liquido (3:54) ; III. Crescent city (8:24) ; IV. On the wannsee (4:29); title: Alternative energy (25:57): I. Ford's farm, 1896 (7:07) ; II. Chicago, 2012 (5:53) ; III. Xinjiang Province, 2112 (8:05) ; IV. Reykjavik, 2222 (4:52).