Piano Concertos on DG (Best of 2020)
John Adams Why Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? Yuja Wang, piano; Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, conductor…
John Adams: Violin Concerto (CD Review)
Violin Concerto – John Adams Leila Josefowicz, violin St. Louis Symphony, David Robertson, conductor Nonesuch CD Some recordings become touchstones…
Scheherazade.2
Out today on Nonesuch is John Adams’s Scheherazade.2, a concerto for violin and orchestra of symphonic proportions. Composed for soloist…
Fellowship of the Strings
Since no one listens to contemporary classical music, and it doesn’t get put on concert programs, to have a new…
The Gospel According to The Other Mary
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPZU_fK4-J8[/youtube] Early reviews care of bloggers (one well-informed, one not so much) Boosey and Hawkes has a perusal score available–through…
Locrian Chamber Players this Thursday
Eclectic in their programming and superlatively talented, the Locrian Chamber Players have a unique mandate: they are the only new…
An Adams’ Baritone
Baritone Eric Owens is busy this fall – his Met debut as General Leslie Groves in John Adams’ Dr. Atomic…