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
- Chaconne: Body Through Which the Dream Flows
- Toccare
- Shaking and Trembling
- Hymning Slews
- Lops and Verses
- A Final Shaking
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Free Music Review: Relentless and Uninspired
Hit: 1 Stars
This is Adams at his worst.He can be flash(as in Faast Ride,loopalooza etc) but at least those pieces sound like good film music at best.
The Violin concerto to me actually does'nt sound at all like Adams!! I am really surprised people who like Harmonium(his best piece by far) like this.It is actually very unpleasant to listen to.
It is relentless(why does'nt Adams like rests?!!), tedious and actually plain dull and uninspired.There appears to be NO direction in the first movement,just like a boring inmprovisation.And yes I have tried to hear it quite a few times.
The second movement is the best but sounds a bit like bad Frank Martin(a wonderful Swiss composer who mixed atonality and tonlity with much success)I advise readers to listen to Martin;s 'Petite Concertante'.Adams is just not good at trying to incoprporate atonal elements with tonal ones-he also just sounds like bad Ives here.
The last movement is typical of Adams-very flash technically but no substance.It is again relentless but just plain tedious,empty and machine music.It is reminiscent of the Barber but that at least DOES have depth even though I am not a big fan of that (though Adams could learn from Barber's first movement which is lovely,breathes and has rests!!).
This is all a shame as Adams in Harmonium showed he could write music that breathed and was really musical.
Adams: Violin Concerto/Shaker Loops Poster
Turned loose on John Adams's surprisingly flexible violin concerto, the team of conductor Kent Nagano and soloist Gidon Kremer do justice to its passionate verve. Nagano leads the London Symphony Orchestra to the point of near-explosion as it approaches Kremer's sluicing take on the work. Kremer hits the right slipping scales and sometimes slashing skids like magic, with the orchestra seeping into the sound and leaping forward for Kremer to chase.The sound is effusively rich and far distant from Adams's more pronounced studies in repetition and harmonic expansion. The rendition of Shaker Loops here dates from 1983, that is, it's in the hands of the Orchestra of St. Luke's rather than performed by string septet, for which it was premiered in 1978. While some prefer the economy of the smaller-ensemble recordings (particularly the Ensemble Modern's version), this Adams-conducted version has the force of a lurching train. It's dense and overflowing, repeatedly surprising the listener with its Trojan horse-like discovery of small innovations beneath the large-group expansiveness. --Andrew Bartlett
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