Adams: Violin Concerto/Shaker Loops
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Composer: John AdamsConductor: John Adams
Conductor: Kent Nagano
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke's
Performer: Gidon Kremer
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-04-09
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- Quarter Note =78 - John Adams
- Chaconne: Body Through Which the Dream Flows - John Adams
- Toccare
- Shaking and Trembling
- Hymning Slews
- Lops and Verses
- A Final Shaking
Free Music Notes for Adams: Violin Concerto/Shaker Loops
Free Music Review: Traditionally bound,glowingly rich blends of harmonic motion
Hit: 5 Stars
Post-minimal musical procedures has worked well for Adams, His skill was to introduce substantive musical ideas into the vast bleak world of repetitive musical patterns. And this "Violin Concerto" works well. Like the first movement, the gorgeous accompaniment of the forever ascending patterns is a joy to listen to. Haunting and mesmerizing. The odd dimension here was that I often found myself listening to the orchestral music more than the solo violin. Especially this "First Movement" where to my ears the violin's continuous motion seems overly dissipated, almost throw-away music, no melodic contour added up to much, and there was no real dialogue(if there is suppose to be) between the orchestra and the solo.. Adams adheres to traditional music structures with a middle slow movement. The use of two electric pianos with sampler setting was a stroke of genius. Barely perceptible but enough to colour their orchestral brethren. There is plenty of ethereal music here which is what a violin concerto does, as opposed to any other kind of concerto. No other composer(save Mozart) have ever ventured past one violin concerto,so it is a place reserved for special music ideas,almost spiritual. And Adams here proclaims a new anti-post-minimalist world, perhaps the next reigning musical ideology. The predictable last movement "Toccata" reminds me strongly of Samuel Barber's last movement for his one and only "Violin Concerto". The fast clipped furioso speed here is what any good violin virtuoso needs and Kremer knows few equals. There are stricking syncopation "Fives" against the ongoing rush of four-four pulse whish gives a character here. If you miss Adams the minimalist well "Shaker Loops is here. I can't listen to it past a few minutes. If Adams has a" voice", within the profoundest sense of the term, it is the way he moves imperceptibly within the labyrinth of orchestral sonorities. He remains very much a harmonic composer,but a consummate craftsman of the orchestra. There are no memorable melodies in any of his music, and I consider that a complement, and rhythm? well for any self-respecting post-minimalist is a flattened out affair, merely as a support of the flowing harmonic motion. Again Adams is compelling as an orchestrator.He inherits Stravinsky's orchestral estate.
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