John Adams - Complete piano music (2007)
John Adams - Complete piano music (2007)
WEB | MP3 CBR 320Kb | 52 mn | 120 MB | Cover & PDF booklet
genre : classical, minimalist | label : Naxos
WEB | MP3 CBR 320Kb | 52 mn | 120 MB | Cover & PDF booklet
genre : classical, minimalist | label : Naxos
John Adams’ vast and varied output has earned him a wide audience, uncommon among contemporary classical composers. The works on this disc span his entire career to date, and illustrate his many different styles of writing for the piano. Phrygian Gates and China Gates – “gate” here referring to a type of electronic switch – could be regarded as his first “minimal” works, but are more tonal and expressive than the music of his contemporaries such as Steve Reich and Philip Glass. As a teenager Adams had played clarinet in his father’s marching band, and his Hallelujah Junction reflects his love of jazz and popular music. His most recent piano work, American Berserk, recalls the fractured boogie-woogie style of Conlon Nancarrow, and has been described by the composer as a “short, manic, bipolar scherzo”.
1. Phrygian Gates 00:24:37
2. American Berserk 00:06:04
3. China Gates 00:05:15
4. Hallelujah Junction 00:16:05
Ralph van Raat, piano (+ Maarten van Veen on Hellelujah junction)