Marin Alsop - John Adams:City Noir - Import CD

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Marin Alsop

Description:

John Adams: City Noir, etc. Includes John Adams: City Noir (2009) City Noir (2009) 1. 1. i. the City and its Double 2. II. the Song is for You 3. III. Boulevard Night Fearful Symmetries (1988) 5. 5. Girls of the Golden West Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance (revised 2016/2020) Total running time: 69 min. Performers. Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra Marin Allsopp (conductor) Recorded at the Great Hall of the Musikverein and the Great Hall of the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna May 31-June 2, 2022... 1-3, 5 December 1 and 3, 2022.... .4 A collection of works by John Adams, one of the leading contemporary American composers. The album includes three of his best-known works, including his signature piece, City Noir. The opening piece, "City Noir," is what he calls "imaginary film music" inspired by the cultural and social history of Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s. The piece shows Adams' ability to manipulate a huge orchestra in all directions. Fearful Symmetries" was composed during the period of his successful "Nixon in China. It is a minimalist piece with a variety of instruments, including synthesizers, saxophones, etc., added to the orchestration, and it is a variant of a big band, so to speak. Conductor Marin Allsop has been working with Adams for more than 30 years, since he started working with the Cabrillo Contemporary Music Festival, and has performed many of his works during that time. This time, she performs her beloved Adams' works with her own hand-picked orchestra, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the music is full of empathy. Laura Montes Dances the Spider Dance," placed at the end of the album, was written by Adams for her when Orsop left the Cabrillo Contemporary Music Festival, and is a short but warm-hearted and humorous piece. (Naxos Japan)