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Adams: Harmonielehre & Short Ride in a Fast Machine
RecommendedSan Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
More than in previous recordings, Michael Tilson Thomas's superbly paced approach conveys the music's sense of vast surrounding spaces, and the momentum of the biggest passages is the more thrilling... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 55th Awards (2012), Best Orchestral Performance
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John Adams: Absolute Jest
RecommendedOrli Shaham (piano) & Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Synergy Vocals, San Francisco Symphony & St. Lawrence String Quartet, Michael Tilson Thomas & John Adams
Here is wit, rough passion, gravity and playfulness...the dialogue between the St Lawrence String Quartet and the San Francisco Orchestra is brilliantly cogent and clear. Absolute Jest is a bravura... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th August 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music & Absolute Jest Doric String Quartet, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian
The RSNO’s playing captures all the delicacy, grandeur and zing of Adams’s complex score, while the Doric String Quartet brings sumptuous sweetness and laser-like clarity to its solo part…There... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Orchestral
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the RSNO under Peter Oundjian manage very effectively to project this single sweep of sound from beginning to end. Brass and percussion stand out for all the right reasons...but it's really a... — More…
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Music for a Time of War
Jeffrey Work (trumpet), Sanford Sylvan (baritone), Jun Iawsaki (violin)
Oregon Symphony, Carlos Kalmar
Music for a Time of War is a compelling and inspired example of intelligent programme planning, and it’s extremely well played by the Oregon Symphony conducted by Carlos Kalmar… The live recorded... — More…
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Hammond casts her net with a flairfulness and acuity ‘rich in contrast’ (to purloin Sofia Gubaidulina’s description of her 1963 Chaconne which, under Hammond’s exhilaratingly determined fingers,... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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