Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi
In this programme, Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle - Orchester Zürich celebrate one of the most important composers of our time with works from different periods and citing a wide range of references, autobiographical or typically American. John Adams has assimilated numerous musical influences, and his personal style cannot be reduced to one of them: he is neither Minimalist, nor post-Minimalist, nor neo-Romantic. Some of his works can of course be said to belong to one or other of these movements, but he does not consider himself to be the representative of any particular tendency. If he refers to musical tradition in his works, it is always in a critical way and at the same time open to the influences of pop music, rock and jazz.
The inspiration of Stravinsky’s Chant du Rossignol is never far away in this [Slonimsky’s Earbox], and sometimes overt in the harmonic and melodic shapes. There’s more for the orchestra to get its teeth into here, and it ’s a taut performance, with a nicely detailed recording in the excellent Tonhalle acoustic.
there is plenty to enjoy in these fine performances, the hints of sleaze in ‘The Lake’ (excellent wah-wah trumpets) and nicely captured sepia tone in particular.
This short compendium is an ideal starting point for any listener wanting to sample this prolific composer’s rich orchestral vocabulary.
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