Resurrecting Mahler on Blu-ray
In a year marking the centenary of both the death of Gustav Mahler and the birth of the San Francisco Symphony, the orchestra’s Keeping Score project focuses on the enigmatic composer with this two-disc home video set featuring Dolby® TrueHD.
Michael Tilson Thomas returns to the provincial Austro-Hungarian city of Mahler’s childhood, and bears witness to his grand achievements, great sorrows, and daring musical explorations into the depths of the human soul.
DVD Features
Disc 1: Origins and Legacy documentary (1 hour, 53 minutes)
Disc 2: Two concert performances by the San Francisco Symphony: Symphony no. 1 (56 minutes); and A Mahler Journey, featuring selected movements of Symphony nos. 5 (Adagietto), 7 (Scherzo), 9 (Rondo burleske), and Songs of a Wayfarer with baritone Thomas Hampson (55 minutes)
Keeping Score: Mahler completes the San Francisco Symphony’s ten-year exploration of Mahler’s music through its Grammy® Award-winning Mahler recording cycle on SFS Media™.
Find out more at the Keeping Score website.
Dolby TrueHD Creates a High-Definition Audio Experience
Dolby TrueHD delivers powerful sound that is bit-for-bit identical to the original studio master, unlocking the full entertainment experience on Blu-ray Disc and other HD media.
When coupled with video, Dolby TrueHD lets you enjoy sound as stunning as the high-definition picture.
Benefits of Dolby TrueHD
Delivers studio-master-quality audio (up to 24-bit/192 kHz) identical to what was created in the recording studio, mixing stage, or live concert
Supports up to 16 channels of lossless audio
Offers a spacious soundstage, highly realistic effects, and unsurpassed dynamic range
The Experience
The combination of high-definition audio and video provides music fans with the feeling of getting their own private performance.
Find out more about Dolby TrueHD.